Hick is a surname or a nickname. Notable people with the name include:

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Andrew Hick Andrew Hick (born ) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played professionally in England and Australia. Playing career Hick played for the Engadine Dragons before making his début for the local Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in th ...

(born 1971), Australian rugby league footballer *

Benjamin Hick Benjamin Hick (1 August 1790 – 9 September 1842) was an English civil and mechanical engineer, art collector and patron; his improvements to the steam engine and invention of scientific tools were held in high esteem by the engineering pr ...

(1790–1842), English civil and mechanical engineer *

Bruce Hick Bruce Hick (born 20 August 1963 in Rockhampton, Queensland) is an Australian national champion, three time World Champion and dual Olympian lightweight rower. He represented Australia over a fifteen-year period and rowed at ten World Rowing C ...

(born 1963), Australian rower *

Graeme Hick Graeme Ashley Hick (born 23 May 1966) is a Zimbabwean-born former England cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He was born in Rhodesia, and as a young man played international cricket for Zimbabwe. H ...

(born 1966), English cricketer *

Jacqueline Hick Jacqueline Hick ('Jackie; 1919–2004) was an Australian painter whose work is held in the permanent collections of multiple museums in Australia. She is known for her work depicting human figures and the Australian landscape. She is the subjec ...

(1919–2004), Australian painter *

Jochen Hick Jochen Hick (born April 2, 1960 in Darmstadt) is a German film director and producer of mainly independent feature and documentary films, also specialising in LGBT subjects. In 1994 he founded the film and TV production company GALERIA ALASKA PRODU ...

(born 1960), German film director *

John Hick (MP) John Hick (2 July 1815 – 2 February 1894) was a wealthy English industrialist, art collector and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1868 to 188 ...

(1815–1894), English MP, civil and mechanical engineer *

John Hick John Harwood Hick (20 January 1922 – 9 February 2012) was a philosopher of religion and theologian born in England who taught in the United States for the larger part of his career. In philosophical theology, he made contributions in the are ...

(1922–2012), philosopher of religion and theologian * Les Hick (born 1927), English footballer *

Pentland Hick Edwin Pentland Hick (21 July 1919 – 6 March 2016) was a British entrepreneur, author, publisher, and veteran of World War II. Hick is best known for founding the Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo in North Yorkshire Military service Hick served ...

(1919–2016), British entrepreneur, author, and publisher *

Rarriwuy Hick Rarriwuy Hick (born ) is an Aboriginal Australian award winning actress, known for her roles in the television series ''Redfern Now'', ''Cleverman'', ''Wentworth'' and '' True Colours''. Early life and education Hick was born around 1991 in S ...

(born 1990/1991), Australian actress *

W. E. Hick William Edmund Hick (1 August 1912 – 20 December 1974) was a British psychologist, who was a pioneer in the new sciences of experimental psychology and ergonomics in the mid-20th century. Hick trained as a medical doctor, taking the MB a ...

(1912–1974), British psychologist

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Hick Cady Forrest Leroy "Hick" Cady (January 26, 1886 – March 3, 1946) was a backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1912–17) and Philadelphia Phillies (1919). Cady batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Bishop ...

(1886–1946), baseball player *

Hick Carpenter Warren William "Hick" Carpenter (August 16, 1855 – April 18, 1937) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball. He still holds the Cincinnati Reds record for the most games at third base (890); and he holds the record for the most car ...

(1855–1937), baseball player *

The Hick from French Lick Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Hick from French Lick" and "Larry Legend", Bird is widely regarded a ...

(born 1956), Larry Bird, basketball player

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* Hick, another term for the derogatory term

redneck ''Redneck'' is a derogatory term chiefly, but not exclusively, applied to white Americans perceived to be crass and unsophisticated, closely associated with rural whites of the Southern United States.Harold Wentworth, and Stuart Berg Flexner, '' ...

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