Cooke
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Cooke is the surname of several notable people:
- Alan Cooke, British actor
- Alexander Cooke (d. 1614), English actor
- Alfred Tyrone Cooke, hero of the Indo-Pakistani wars
- Alistair Cooke KBE (1908-2004), journalist and broadcaster
- Anna Rice Cooke (1853-1934), patron of the arts and founder of the Honolulu Academy of Arts
- Anthony Cooke (1505-1576), British scholar
- Baden Cooke (b. 1978), Australian cyclist
- Barrie Cooke (b. 1931), Irish painter
- Bates Cooke, US Representative 1831-1833, and NY State Comptroller 1839-1841
- Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793), English musician
- C. R. Cooke (1901-1996), English early Himalayan mountaineer
- Charles Montague Cooke, Jr. (1874-1948), American malacologist
- Christian Cooke (b. 1986), English actor
- Dave Cooke, Canadian politician
- Deryck Cooke (1919-1975), British musicologist
- Doc Cook (Charles L. Cooke, 1891-1958), jazz bandleader
- Edward William Cooke (1811-1880), English maritime artist
- Eric Edgar Cooke, murderer
- Francis Cooke, Mayflower passenger
- Francis Judd Cooke, American composer
- Geoff Cooke, former England Rugby coach
- Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim
- Janet Cooke (b. 1954), American journalist, won a Pulitzer price for a fabricated story
- Jennifer Cooke, actress
- John Cooke (disambiguation), several people
- Keith Cooke, actor
- L. J. Cooke, first men's basketball coach at the University of Minnesota
- Lawrence H. Cooke (1914-2000), Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals 1979-1984
- Martin Cooke (baritone), opera singer
- Martin Cooke (mayor), 25th mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
- Matt Cooke, hockey player
- Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914), British botanist
- Nicole Cooke (born 1983), British cyclist
- Philip St. George Cooke, 19th century US cavalry officer
- Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand judge
- Sam Cooke (1931-1964), American singer/songwriter
- Sidney Cooke (b. 1927), homosexual paedophile and child killer
- Terence Cooke (1921-1983), Archbishop of New York
- Wells Cooke (1858-1916), American ornithologist
- William Fothergill Cooke (1806-1879), co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph
Places in the United States named Cooke include:
Cooke may also refer to:
- Cooke Optics, a current lens manufacturer (previously Taylor, Taylor and Hobson)
- Cooke triplet, a photographic lens design by the above
- Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, steam railroad locomotive manufacturer, founded in 1852
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