Kulik is a Slavic surname also present in Yiddish and German. The Ukrainian form is Kulyk. The Czech-language form, Kulík, is a diminutive of "Mikuláš" ("Nicholas") via "Mikulík". The Russian is both "Kulik" and "Kullik". In English it has at times been transliterated as Kulick.
Notable people with the surname include: Anita Kulik (born 1964), American politician Buzz Kulik (1922–1999), American movie director Christian Kulik (born 1952), Polish-born German football player 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), Russian figure skater Ivan Kulyk (1897–1937; a pen name of Izrail Yudelevych), Soviet poet Jakob Philipp Kulik (1793–1863), Austrian mathematician Johann Kulik (1800–1872), Czech luthier Leonid Kulik (1883–1942), Soviet 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