Arik is a given name and may refer to: In sports: *

Arik Benado Ariel "Arik" Benado (; born 5 December 1973) is an Israeli association football, football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. Playing career Benado was a second-generation player at one of Israel's major association footbal ...

, the captain of Maccabi Haifa *

Arik Gilbert Arik Dasan Gilbert (born February 22, 2002) is an American college football tight end who currently plays for the Savannah State Tigers. He has also played for both the LSU Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs., and Nebraska Cornhuskers Early life Gilbert ...

(born 2002), American football player * Ariel "Arik" Ze'evi, Israeli judoka In music: *

Arik Einstein Arieh Lieb "Arik" Einstein ( ; (3 January 1939 – 26 November 2013) was an Israeli singer, songwriter, actor, comedian and screenwriter. He was a pioneer of Israeli rock music and was named "the voice of Israel." Through both high public and c ...

, Israeli singer *

Arik Marshall Arik Ben Marshall (born February 13, 1967) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, poet, and author, best known as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1992-93. Early life Arik Ben Marshall is the third of five children born to an A ...

, American musician In other fields: *

Ariel Sharon Ariel Sharon ( ; also known by his diminutive Arik, ; 26 February 192811 January 2014) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the prime minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006. Born in Kfar Malal in Mandatory Palestin ...

, former

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

and military leader *

Arik Levy Arik Levy () was born in Tel Aviv. An artist and industrial designer, he attended the Art Center Europe in Switzerland where he graduated with distinction in 1991. Levy employs a multi-disciplinary approach in both the art and industrial design ...

, Industrial designer and contemporary artist *

Artoces of Iberia Artoces was a king ('' mepe'') of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia) from 78 to 63 BC. He features in the Classical accounts of the Third Mithridatic War (Appian, ''Bell. Mithr.'' 103, 117; Cassius Dio 37.1-2; Eutropius 6.14 rtaces Festus 16; Or ...

, an ancient Georgian ruler *

Arik Ascherman Arik Ascherman (; born 1959) is an American-born Israeli Reform rabbi, and executive director of the Israeli human rights organization Torat Tzedek-Torah of Justice. For 21 years, starting in 1995, he served as co-director (1995–1998), executi ...

, American-born Reform rabbi and Palestinian human rights activist in Israel *

Arik Brauer Arik Brauer (; 4 January 1929 – 24 January 2021) was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer-songwriter, stage designer, architect, and academic teacher. Brauer, from a family of Jewish emigrants, grew up in Vienna under the N ...

, visionary artist *

Arik Soong This is a list of recurring characters from the live-action science fiction television series '' Star Trek: Enterprise'', which originally aired on UPN between 2001 and 2005. The television show takes place in the 22nd century of the ''Star Tre ...

, fictional geneticist and later cyberneticist

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