Cooke
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Cooke is the surname of several notable people:
- Alan Cooke, British actor
- Alexander Cooke (died 1614), English actor
- Alfred Tyrone Cooke, of the Indo-Pakistani wars
- Alistair Cooke KBE (1908–2004), journalist and broadcaster
- Amos Starr Cooke (1810–1871), found of Royal School and Castle & Cooke in Hawaii
- 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 (born 1978), Australian cyclist
- Barrie Cooke (born 1931), Irish painter
- Bates Cooke, US Representative 1831-1833, and NY State Comptroller 1839–1841
- Benjamin Cooke (1734–1793), English musician
- Beryl Cooke (1906–2001), English actress
- C. R. Cooke (1901–1996), English early Himalayan mountaineer
- Charles Montague Cooke (1849–1909), businessman in Hawaii
- Charles Montague Cooke, Jr. (1874–1948), American malacologist
- Christian Cooke (born 1986), English actor
- Clarence Hyde Cooke (1876–1944), businessman in Hawaii
- 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 (1910–1995), American composer
- Geoff Cooke, former England Rugby coach
- Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim
- James J. Cooke, American historian, author, academic and soldier
- James W. Cooke, American naval officer
- Janet Cooke (born 1954), American journalist, won a Pulitzer price for a fabricated story
- Jennifer Cooke, actress
- John Cooke (disambiguation), several people
- Joseph Platt Cooke (1730–1816), in American Revolutionary War
- 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
- Mel Cooke, New Zealand rugby league footballer
- 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 (born 1927), homosexual paedophile and child killer
- Steve Cooke (born 1970), baseball player
- Terence Cooke (1921–1983), Archbishop of New York
- Weldon B. Cooke (1884–1914), American pioneer aviator killed in crash
- 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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