Famous People with Name Derrick

Derrick Joseph Chievous            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Derrick Joseph Chievous: is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Houston Rockets in the 1st round (16th overall) of the 1988 NBA Draft.Chievous played in the NBA from 1988-1991 for the Rockets and Cleveland Cavaliers. His best season came during his rookie campaign as a member of the Rockets, when he appeared in 81 games and averaged 9.3 ppg. He played collegiately at the University of Missouri. He also played for Greek team Dafni between 1994-1996.

Derrick Michael Phelps            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Derrick Michael Phelps: is an American professional basketball player. The 6' 4", 181-lb. point guard rose to prominence while playing college basketball for coach Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina. Phelps was never drafted by an NBA team, but did play in three games for the Sacramento Kings in the 1994/95 season.[1] The Vancouver Grizzlies selected him in the 1995 expansion draft, but he did not play for them before they renounced his NBA rights in 1996. He has also spent some time during pre-season (but not in any NBA games) with the Milwaukee Bucks (1994) and Philadelphia 76ers (1997). In 2006/07 season he played in the Russian Basketball Super League for Spartak Primorie Vladivostok.

Derrick Wayne McKey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Derrick Wayne McKey: is a retired American basketball player who played the most part of his NBA career between the small forward and the power forward positions.McKey attended Meridian High School in his Mississippi hometown, where he excelled on the team's basketball squad. In addition to being a star basketball player in high school, he was a shortstop on the baseball team despite being 6'10". He attended the University of Alabama for three years, leading the Tide to a regional No. 1 seed in 1986-87 and to the Sweet 16 (where they were eliminated by Providence). He played for the US national team in the 1986 FIBA World Championship, winning the gold medal.[1]

Derrick Dewayne Zimmerman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Derrick Dewayne Zimmerman: is an American professional basketball player. He played collegiately at Mississippi State University.He was selected 40th overall in the 2003 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors, and played two games with the NBA's New Jersey Nets during the 2005-06 season. He played in the NBA D-League for the Columbus Riverdragons (2004-05) and Austin Toros (2005-06). On December 2006 he signed a one month contract with Brose Baskets Bamberg in the German Basketball Bundesliga. After his contract expired, he signed with Italian team Air Avellino until the end of the season.

Derrick Henry Dick Lehmer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Derrick Henry Dick Lehmer: was an American mathematician who refined Edouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas-Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing.

James Michael Derrick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Michael Derrick: (born September 19, 1943 in Columbia, South Carolina) is a former left fielder/first baseman in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1970 season. Listed at 6' 0", 190 lb., he batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

Christopher Hugh Derrick            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Christopher Hugh Derrick: was the son of the artist, illustrator and cartoonist Thomas Derrick. He was educated at Douai School 1934-39, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1940 and 1945-47, his studies being interrupted by service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. From 1953 to 1965 he was on the administrative staff of the University of London, as well as working as a publisher's reader. Thereafter he worked independently as a literary adviser to various publishers, as a book reviewer, and as a writer and lecturer. He died on 2 October 2007 at the age of 86.

Jantzen Derrick            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Jantzen Derrick: is a former English football (soccer) striker.He started his career with Bristol City F.C., playing 259 matches and scoring 31 goals.

Kimberly Derrick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kimberly Derrick: is an American short track speed skater. She competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics and has been named to the U.S. team for the 2010 Winter Olympics.