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 "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
• 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 quarterback
• 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
• Vandyke Productions, British film production company between 1947 and 1956
• Van Dyke Records, American record label from about early 1929 through 1932

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