Rik (given name)
Rik is a masculine given name and nickname. Most common in Belgium, it is a short form of the Dutch language given name Hendrik or sometimes Frederik, Erik or Rikkert. As an English-language name it usually is a variant of Rick, a short form of Richard.
Notable people with this name include:
- Rik Barnett, English actor
- Rik Battaglia, stage name of Italian actor Caterino Bertaglia
- Bert Blyleven né Rik Aalbert, Dutch-born American baseball pitcher
- Rik Bonness, American football player
- Rik van den Boog, Dutch managing director of FC Ajax
- Rik Carey, Bahamian musician
- Rik Clerckx, Belgian long-distance runner
- Rik Coolsaet, Belgian political scientist
- Rik Coppens, Belgian footballer
- Rik Cordero, American film director
- Rik Daems, Belgian politician and painter
- Rik Daniëls, Belgian television director
- Rik De Deken, Belgian footballer
- Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian footballer and sports commentator
- Rik de Voest, South African tennis player
- Rik Emmett, Canadian guitarist and singer
- Rik Fox, American heavy metal bassist
- Rik Grashoff, Dutch engineer and politician
- Rik Hoevenaers, Belgian cyclist
- Rik van IJzendoorn, Dutch cyclist
- Rik Isemborghs, Belgian footballer
- Rik Jaeken, Belgian engineer and businessman
- Rik Janssen, Dutch politician and businessman
- Rik Kemp, Australian cartoonist
- Rik Kuypers, Belgian film director
- Rik de Lange, Dutch politician
- Rik Larnoe, Belgian footballer
- Rik Launspach, Dutch actor, writer and director
- Rik Levins, American comic book artist
- Rik Lopez, English footballer
- Rik Makarem, English actor
- Rik Mayall, English comedian
- Rik Massengale, American golfer
- Rik Moorman, Dutch cyclist
- Rik Offenberger, American comic book journalist
- Rik Pinxten, Belgian anthropologist
- Rik Renders, Belgian cyclist
- Rik Rue, Australian experimental musician
- Rik Schaefels, Belgian Romantic painter
- Rik Schaffer, American game composer
- Rik Schoofs, Belgian long-distance runner
- Rik Sebens, Dutch footballer
- Rik Simpson, British record producer
- Rik Smits (linguist), Dutch linguist, author, translator and editor
- Rik Smits, Dutch NBA basketball player
- Rik Tommelein, Belgian hurdler
- Rik Toonen, Dutch water polo player
- Rik Torfs, Belgian law scholar and politician
- Rik Van Brussel, Belgian mechanical engineer
- Rik Van Linden, Belgian cyclist
- Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist
- Rik Van Nutter, American actor
- Rik Van Slycke, Belgian cyclist
- Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist
- Rik Vandenberghe, Belgian sprinter
- Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist
- Rik Vercoe, British ultramarathon runner
- Rik Verheye, Flemish actor
- Rik Waddon, British cyclist
- Rik Waller, English singer
- Rik Wheeler, nickname of Mortimer Eric Wheeler, British archaeologist and army officer
- Rik Wilson, American ice hockey player
- Rik Wouters, Belgian painter and sculptor
- Rik Ringers, eponymic comics reporter