Fictional Characters
- Derek and Clive, controversial cult characters portrayed by Dudley Moore and Peter Cook
- Derek the dark green diesel, character from Thomas the Tank Engine
- Derek the Midget, character played by radio personality Shuli
- Derek the Sheep, eponymous character in a comic strip in the Beano
- Derek Almond, character in the graphic novel V for Vendetta
- Derek Bliss, character in Vampires: Los Muertos
- Derek Blunt, anthropomorphic hawk in Darkwing Duck
- Derek Branning, character in the BBC soap EastEnders
- Derek Conway, character in British TV series The Bill
- Derek the Dalmatian (also known as "Evil Derek the Dark Dalmatian"), from the 1970s BBC children's television series Olimar The Wondercat
- Derek Flint, eponymous character in Our Man Flint
- Derek Frye, character in the ABC soap opera All My Children
- Derek Harkinson, character in the BBC soap EastEnders
- Derek Hale, character in Teen Wolf
- Derek Haig, a character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Derek Jupiter, the lead singer of the fictional band "Iron Weasel" from I'm in the Band
- Derek Klivian, pilot in the Rogue Squadron from Star Wars
- Derek Morgan, senior special agent in Criminal Minds
- Derek Noakes, eponymous character in the comedy-drama pilot Derek, created, written and played by Ricky Gervais
- Derek O'Farrell, character in the British soap Brookside
- Derek Powers aka Blight, supervillain in the animated series Batman Beyond
- Derek Shepherd aka McDreamy, neurosurgeon in the American medical series Grey's Anatomy
- Derek Smalls, character in the spoof rockumentary This is Spinal Tap
- Derek Stevens, character in Saturday Night Live musical sketches
- Derek Stiles, character in the Trauma Center series of video games
- Derek Trotter, character in the TV comedy series Only Fools and Horses
- Derek Venturi, character in the Canadian TV show Life with Derek
- Derek Vinyard in American History X
- Derek Wheeler aka "Wheels", character in the Degrassi series
- Derek Wilton, character in the TV soap Coronation Street
- Derek Zoolander, eponymous character in the film Zoolander
- Prince Derek, Son of Queen Uberta, character in The Swan Princess
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“One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world’s memory.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)
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