Van Dyke

Van Dyke, VanDyke or Vandyke is an Americanized or anglicized form of the Dutch-language toponymic surname Van Dijk, Van Dijke, Van Dijck, or Van Dyck. Meaning living near the dike. literal translation being "from/of [the] dike"

Van Dyke, VanDyke or Vandyke may refer to:

As a surname

• The Van Dyke family of American entertainers:

* Dick Van Dyke (born 1925), actor

** Barry Van Dyke (born 1951), actor

*** Shane Van Dyke (born 1979), actor, screenwriter, and director

* Jerry Van Dyke (1931–2018), comedian and actor, brother of Dick

** Kelly Jean Van Dyke (1958–1991), actress and adult film performer

• Aldo Calderón van Dyke (1968–2013), Honduran journalist and news anchor
• Alex Van Dyke (born 1974), American football wide receiver
• Anthony E. Van Dyke, United States Marine Corps colonel
• Antony van Dyke, variant English spelling of the Flemish-born painter Anthony van Dyck, (1599–1641)
• Arlington P. Van Dyke (1926–1990), American businessman and New York politician
• Ben Van Dyke (1888–1973), American baseball pitcher
• Bill Van Dyke (1863–1933), American baseball player
• Bruce Van Dyke (born 1944), American football guard
• Carl Van Dyke (1881–1919), American soldier, lawyer and politician from Minnesota
• Charie Van Dyke (born 1965), American film producer
• Charlie Van Dyke (born 1947), American former radio disc jockey
• Christina Van Dyke, American philosopher
• Conny Van Dyke (1945–2023), American singer and actress
• David Van Dyke (born 1959), American serial killer
• DeMarcus Van Dyke (born 1989), American football cornerback
• Dick van Dyke (politician) (fl. 1985), American (Washington State) politician
• Earl Van Dyke (1930–1992), American soul musician, keyboardist for Motown Records
• Edwin Van Dyke (1849–1952), American physician and entomologist
• Harry Van Dyke (born 1972), American actor and music producer
• Henry van Dyke (1852–1933), American author, educator, and clergyman
• Hilary Van Dyke (born 1970), American actress and singer
• Inger Vandyke, Australian wildlife photojournalist, explorer and expedition leader
• James A. Van Dyke (1813–1855), American lawyer, mayor of Detroit in 1847
• Jan Van Dyke (1941–2015), American dancer and choreographer
• John van Dyke (canoeist) (born 1935), American sprint canoer
• John Van Dyke (politician) (1807–1878), American jurist and Whig Party politician
• John Charles Van Dyke (1856–1932), American art historian and critic
• John Wesley Van Dyke (1849–1939), American oil refiner
• Joost van Dyke (died c.1631), Dutch privateer in the West Indies
• Lawrence VanDyke (born 1972), American judge
• Leroy Van Dyke (born 1929), American singer
• Les Vandyke (1931–2021), English pop singer and songwriter
• Louis van Dyke, international spelling of Louis van Dijk (1941–2020), Dutch pianist
• Marcia Van Dyke (1922–2002), American violinist and actress, niece of W.S. Van Dyke
• Matthew VanDyke (born 1979), American documentary filmmaker and Prisoner of War in the Libyan civil war
• Milton Van Dyke (1922–2010), American aerospace engineer and aerodynamicist
• Nicholas Van Dyke (governor) (1738–1789), American lawyer and President of Delaware
• Nicholas Van Dyke (senator) (1770–1826), American lawyer and Senator from Delaware
• Paul Van Dyke (1859–1933), American historian, brother of Henry Van Dyke
• Phillip Van Dyke (born 1984), American voice actor
• Ria van Dyke (born 1989), New Zealand model and beauty pageant
• Ronny van Dyke (born 1956), German singer and songwriter
• Russ Van Dyke (1917–1992), radio and television newsman in Iowa
• Ryan Van Dyke (born 1980), American football player
• Tyler Van Dyke (born 2001), American football player
• Vonda Kay Van Dyke (born 1943), American model, 1965 Miss America
• W. S. Van Dyke (1889–1943), American film director
• Walter Van Dyke (1823–1905), American justice of the California Supreme Court
• Willard Van Dyke (1906–1986), American filmmaker, photographer, and Museum of Modern Art director

As a derived given or middle name

• Van Dyke Brooke, stage name of Stewart McKerrow (1859–1921), American actor, screenwriter and film director
• Van Dyke Parks (born 1943), American musician and actor
• Walter Van Dyke Bingham (1880–1952), American applied and industrial psychologist
• Henry Vandyke Carter (1831–1897), English anatomist, surgeon, and anatomical artist
• Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787–1855), English painter
• Henry Van Dyke Johns (1803–1859), American Episcopal clergyman, Chaplain of the Senate
• Samuel Van Dyke Stout (1786–1850), American (Tennessee) Whig politician

Places

• Jost Van Dyke, island of the British Virgin Islands named after Joost van Dyk
• M-53 (Michigan highway), highway in the U.S. state of Michigan known as Van Dyke Avenue and Van Dyke Road in Metro Detroit
• Van Dyke, Michigan, former community in the United States
• Vandyke, Texas, unincorporated community in Comanche County
• Vandyke, Virginia, unincorporated community named after the postmaster Henry Vandyke
• Van Dyke Public Schools, Michigan school district
• Vandyke Upper School, School in Bedfordshire, England

Others

• Van Dyke beard, 19th century name for a style of beard, as worn by the painter and his subjects
• Van Dyke brown, colour, named after the painter Anthony van Dyck
• Van Dyke brown (printing), printing process named after Anthony van Dyck
• Van Dyke mango, a named mango cultivar that originated in south Florida
• Van Dyke Records, American record label from about early 1929 through 1932
• Vandyke (video game), 1991 video game
• Vandyke Productions, British film production company between 1947 and 1956

See also

• The Van Dykes, a group of traveling lesbian separatists from the late 1970s
• Dyke (surname)
• van (Dutch)
• Van Dijk
• Van Dyck (surname)
• Van Dyk