Dicker is an English occupational surname for a digger of ditches or a builder of dikes, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a ditch. Notable people with the surname include:
Alfred Dicker (1852–1938), English clergyman and rower
Cintia Dicker (born 1986), Brazilian model and actress
Fredric U. Dicker, American journalist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898–1944), Austrian artist and educator murdered by the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp
Georges Dicker (born 1942), American philosopher
Jean-Jacques Dicker (born 1944), Swiss-French-American photographer Joël Dicker (born 1985), Swiss novelist John Dicker (1815–1895), English cricketer
Ryan Dicker (born 1986), English footballer
See also
Dikkers, a variant spelling Loek Dikker (born 1944), Dutch pianist, conductor, and composer
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