Sterk

Sterk is a Dutch descriptive surname meaning "strong". A variant form is Sterck. The Hungarian surname Sterk and the Slavic surname Šterk may have independent origins. It may refer to: Claire E. Sterk (born 1957), Dutch anthropologist, provost of Emory University Jane Sterk (born 1947), Canadian psychologist, businesswoman, academic, and politician Jim Sterk (born 1956), College athletic director Károly Sterk (1881–1946), Hungarian chess master Katalin Sterk (born 1961), Hungarian high jumper Maria Sterk (born 1979), Dutch marathon speed skater Marijn Sterk (born 1987), Dutch football defender Mieke Sterk (born 1946), Dutch pentathlete and Labour Party politician Mirjam Sterk (born 1973), Dutch politician, civil servant, RTV editor and educator Rafael Sterk (born 1978), Australian water polo player Stewart Sterk (born 1952), American legal scholar Valerie Sterk (born 1975), American volleyball player (1880–1944), Hungarian-born Austrian librettist Yuri Sterk (born 1962), Bulgarian diplomat, Ambassador, Permanent Representative to UN Office in Geneva Sterck Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh (c.1499–c.1531), Flemish humanist, mathematician and astrologer (born 1955), Flemish writer Thomas Sterck (1900–1970), American football player Stêrk Nisti Stêrk (born 1977), Swedish-Kurdish actress and comedian Šterk Jure Šterk (1937–2009), Slovenian long-distance sailor and author Vladimir Šterk (1891–1941), Croatian architect

==See also== Stark (surname), equivalent German surname Sterk Door Combinatie Putten, known as SDC Putten, is a football club from Putten, the Netherlands Door Oefening Sterk or VV DOS, football club from Utrecht, Netherlands Door Wilskracht Sterk or AFC DWS, a Dutch football club from Amsterdam Jeanette Sterke (born 1933), Czech-born British actress Sterkh Sterkia Sterksel Sterky Sterków