# Kirk (given name)

Kirk is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

## People
### Arts

* Kirk Covington, American musician
* Kirk Docker, co-creator of Australian TV series You Can't Ask That
* Kirk Franklin (1970– ), American gospel musician
* Kirk Hammett (1962– ), American musician, lead guitarist of Metallica
* Kirk Jarvinen (1967–), American artist
* Kirk Joseph (1961–), American musician
* Kirk Kelly (c. 1960–), American singer
* Kirk Lightsey (1937–), American pianist
* Kirk Mitchell (1950–), American author
* Kirk Pengilly (1958– ), Australian musician
* Kirk Powers (1957– ), American musician
* Kirk Whalum (1958– ), American saxophonist
* Kirk Windstein (1965– ), American musician

### Athletics

* Kirk Baptiste (1963– ), American Olympics athlete
* Kirk Barton (1984– ), American football player
* Kirk Baumgartner (1967– ), American football player
* Kirk Bowman (1952– ), Canadian ice hockey player
* Kirk Broadfoot (1984– ), Scottish footballer
* Kirk Bullinger (1969– ), American baseball player
* Kirk Chambers (1979– ), American football player
* Kirk Cousins (1988– ), American football player
* Kirk Dixon (1984– ), English rugby player
* Kirk Dressendorfer (1969– ), American baseball player
* Kirk Earlywine (1964– ), American basketball coach
* Kirk Edwards (1984– ), Barbadian cricketer
* Kirk Ferentz (1955– ), American football coach
* Kirk Furey (1976– ), Canadian ice hockey player
* Kirk Gibson (1957– ), American baseball player
* Kirk Hanefeld (1956– ), American golfer
* Kirk Haston (1979– ), American basketball player
* Kirk Herbstreit (1969– ), American sportscaster
* Kirk Hilton (1981– ), English footballer
* Kirk Hinrich (1981– ), American basketball player
* Kirk Hudson (1986– ), English footballer
* Kirk Hunter (1963– ), Northern Irish footballer
* Kirk Jackson (1976– ), English footballer
* Kirk Johnson (1972– ), Canadian boxer
* Kirk Lowdermilk (1963– ), American football player
* Kirk Maltby (1972– ), Canadian ice hockey player
* Kirk McCarthy (1966–2004), Australian motorcycle racer
* Kirk McCaskill (1961– ), Canadian baseball player
* Kirk McLean (1966– ), Canadian ice hockey player
* Kirk Merritt (born 1997), American football player
* Kirk Morrison (1972– ), American football player
* Kirk Morrison (poker player), American poker player
* Kirk Muller (1966– ), Canadian ice hockey player
* Kirk Netherton (1985– ), English rugby player
* Kirk Nielsen (1973– ), American ice hockey player
* Kirk O'Bee (1977– ), American cyclist
* Kirk Olivadotti (1974– ), American football coach
* Kirk Palmer (1986– ), Australian Olympics swimmer
* Kirk Penney (1980– ), New Zealand basketball player
* Kirk Powell (1972– ), Jamaican cricketer
* Kirk Radomski (1969– ), American figure in the baseball steroids scandal
* Kirk Reynoldson (1979– ), Australian rugby player
* Kirk Rueter (1970– ), American baseball player
* Kirk Saarloos (1979– ), American baseball player
* Kirk Scrafford (1967– ), American football player
* Kirk Shelmerdine (1958– ), American race car driver
* Kirk Yeaman (1983– ), English rugby player

### Entertainment

* Kirk Acevedo (1974– ), American actor
* Kirk Alyn (1910–1999), American actor
* Kirk Baily (1963–2022), American actor
* Kirk Baltz (1959– ), American actor
* Kirk Baxter (1972– ), Australian film editor
* Kirk Brandon (1956– ), English musician
* Kirk Browning (1921–2008), American television executive
* Kirk Cameron (1970– ), American actor
* Kirk DeMicco (1969– ), American screenwriter
* Kirk Degiorgio, British DJ
* Kirk Demorest, American filmmaker
* Kirk Douglas (1916–2020), American actor
* Kirk Fogg (1959– ), American actor
* Kirk Francis (1947– ), American film sound mixer
* Kirk Harris, American actor
* Kirk Thornton (1956– ), American voice actor
* Kirk B. R. Woller (1962– ), American actor

### Finance

* Kirk Boott (1791–1837), American industrialist
* Kirk Kerkorian (1917–2015), American businessman

### Law

* Kirk Anderson (judge) (fl. 2000s), Jamaican judge
* Kirk Bloodsworth (1960– ), American advocate for justice reform
* Kirk Cashmere (1955–2004), American lawyer

### Military

* Kirk Lippold, American naval officer

### Politics

* Kirk Cornish, Bahamian politician
* Kirk Cox (1957– ), American politician
* Kirk Dawes (1958– ), British mediator
* Kirk Fordham (1967– ), American Congressional aide
* Kirk Fordice (1934–2004), American politician, governor of Mississippi
* Kirk Humphreys (1950– ), American politician
* Kirk MacDonald, Canadian politician
* Kirk Schuring (1952– ), American politician
* Kirk Talbot (1969– ), Louisiana politician

### Science

* Kirk Bryan (geologist) (1888–1950), American geologist
* Kirk Bryan (oceanographer) (1929– ), American oceanographer

### Others

* Kirk Hyslop (1889–?), Canadian architect
* Kirk Lankford (1985– ), American murderer
* Kirk Martinez, English academic
* Kirk Schulz, president of Kansas State University
* Kirk White, Pagan lecturer and author
* Kirk Wise Gitiba, Young Kenyan Scholar

## Fictional characters

* Kirk Anderson (As the World Turns), fictional character on the soap opera As the World Turns
* Kirk Cranston (Santa Barbara), fictional character on the soap opera Santa Barbara
* Kirk Gleason, a character from the hit WB show Gilmore Girls
* Kirk Kettner, lead character in She’s Out of My League
* Kirk Lazarus, fictional character from Tropic Thunder
* Kirk Sutherland, fictional character in British TV series Coronation Street
* Kirk Van Houten, fictional character from The Simpsons
* Knight Kirk, is a fictional character from the video game Dark Souls (video game)

## As a middle name

* Michael Kirk Douglas (born 1944), American actor
* Marshall Kirk McKusick (born 1954), (computer scientist)