Famous People with Name Dick

Dick Slater            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dick Slater: was a professional wrestler in the 1970s, 1980s, and up through the mid 1990s for WCW who often wrestled in the NWA's Mid-Atlantic region. He is also a former boyfriend of Luna Vachon.

Dick Butkus            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dick Butkus: is a former American football player, widely regarded as the greatest linebacker of his generation and one of the best football players of all time. Butkus starred as a football player for the University of Illinois and the Chicago Bears. He became a memb

Dick Cunningham            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dick Cunningham: is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'10" center from Murray State University, Cunningham played seven seasons (1968-1975) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Milwaukee Bucks and Houston Rockets. He averaged 2.8 points per game and 3.7 rebounds per game in his career and won an NBA Championship with Milwaukee in 1971.

Dick Oland Klein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dick Oland Klein: was an American athlete and businessman who founded the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls in 1966. He also served as the team’s first general manager and later worked as a scout for the Phoenix Suns.

Dick Wilson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dick Wilson: was a British-born American character actor who played the role of finicky grocery store manager Mr. (George) Whipple in over 500 Charmin toilet paper television commercials (1965–1989, 1999).Dick Wilson was born in Preston, Lancashire, England to an Italian father, Aldo DiGuglielmo, and an English mother, Victoria Wilson. His father performed in vaudeville; his mother was a singer. In late 1916, his father moved the family to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada where he spent his childhood in the Corktown neighbourhood and on the Mountain, attending Queen Victoria and Sacred Heart Schools. He had a Hamilton Spectator newspaper route and got his start in show business with a part-time job at CHML radio in Hamilton at age fifteen. Not wanting to be typecast as Italian, DiGuglielmo Anglicized his first name and took his mother's maiden name as a surname when performing. DiGuglielmo and Wilson are also etymologically similar names].

Philip Kindred Dick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Philip Kindred Dick: was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature of drug use, paranoia and schizophrenia, and mystical experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS.[1]

Andrew R. "Andy" Dick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Andrew R. "Andy" Dick: Dick was born in Charleston, South Carolina and was adopted at birth by Sue and Allen Dick, a naval officer.[2] As a child, he lived in Connecticut and Pittsburgh. In 1980, he attended Lassiter High School, which was being temporarily housed at George Wal

Dick Stockton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dick Stockton: was a professional tennis player from the United States. He is currently the head coach of the men's tennis team at the University of Virginia.

Nancy E. Dick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nancy E. Dick: was the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Colorado. She was a Democrat and served from 1979 to 1987 under Governor Richard Lamm. She was Colorado's first female lieutenant governor.She served two terms in the Colorado House of Representatives before being elect

Samuel Dick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel Dick: was an American physician who was a delegate for New Jersey to the Confederation Congress in 1784 and 1785.Dick was first elected to represent Salem in the New Jersey General Assembly in 1777. He was also appointed collector of customs for the state's wes