Kulik (surname) explained

Kulik is a Slavic, Jewish and German surname. The Czech-language form, Kulík, is a diminutive of "Mikuláš" ("Nicholas") via "Mikulík". The Russian is both "Kulik" and "Kullik". The Ukrainian is "Kulik" and sometimes "Kulyk". In English it has at times been transliterated as "Kulick".

Notable people with the surname include:

• Aleksandr Kulik (born 1981), Estonian professional footballer
• Anita Kulik (born 1964), American politician
• Buzz Kulik (1922–1999), American movie director
• Christian Kulik (born 1952), Polish-born German footballer
• Emilia Kulik (born 1936), Ukrainian actress, wife of director Mikhail Agranovich
• Eran Kulik (born 1946), Israeli football manager
• Grigory Kulik (1890–1950), Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Heather Kulik, American computational materials scientist and chemist
• Ilia Kulik (born 1977), American figure skating coach of Russian origin
• Ivan Kulik (1897–1937; a pen name of Izrail Yudelevych Kulik), Ukrainian poet and Soviet diplomat
• Jakob Philipp Kulik (1793–1863), Austrian mathematician
• Johann Kulik (1800–1872), Czech luthier
• Kostyantyn Kulyk (born 1970), Ukrainian professional footballer
• Leonid Kulik (1883–1942), Estonian mineralogist
• Marina Kulik (born 1956), Dutch painter
• Oleg Kulik (born 1961), Ukrainian-born Russian performance artist
• Witold Kulik (born 1957), former Polish football manager
• Zofia Kulik (born 1947), Polish artist