Kirk (given name)

Kirk is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
 * 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 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 Lazarus, fictional character from Tropic Thunder
 * Kirk Sutherland, fictional character in British TV series Coronation Street
 * Kirk Van Houten, fictional character from The Simpsons

As a middle name

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