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)
See also
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