title: Wick (surname)
text: # Wick (surname)
  
  An English topographic name for someone who lived on an outlying farm; it is a modern variation of the Anglo-Saxon wic. The surname is also of German origin.
  
  ## People
  
  * Cole Wick (born 1993), American athlete and NFL player
  * Denis Wick (born 1932), British orchestral trombonist
  * Douglas Wick (born 1954), American movie producer
  * Emily Wick, American academic and MIT professor
  * Frances Wick (1875–1941), American physicist
  * Gian-Carlo Wick (1909–1992), Italian theoretical physicist
  * Hal Wick (1944–2018), American politician
  * Helmut Wick (1915–1940), German Luftwaffe fighter pilot
  * John Wick (game designer)
  * John Wick, a whistleblower responsible for the disclosure of expenses of British Members of Parliament
  * Rowan Wick (born 1992), Canadian baseball player
  * Stan Wick, (born 1984) Swiss-born Irish ice hockey centre, currently contracted to HC Ambrí-Piotta.
  * Walter Wick (born 1953), American artist and photographer
  * William W. Wick (1796–1868), American politician, United States Congressman, and Secretary of State of Indiana
  * Milton I. Wick, American newspaper businessman who founded Wick Communications Company.
  * Hilton Wick (1920–2006), American politician and Vermont Senator
  * Temperance Wick, American heroine
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * John Wick, titular character of the eponymous film series, and films John Wick: Chapter 1 (2014), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019).
  