Cooley

Cooley is a surname of Irish origin. It refers to:

Persons

• Charles Cooley (1864–1929), American sociologist
• Chelsea Cooley
• Chris Cooley (American football) (born 1982), American professional football player
• David P. Cooley (1960–2009), American test pilot
• Dennis Cooley (born 1944), Canadian poet, professor at the University of Manitoba
• Denton Cooley (born 1920), American physician and heart surgeon
• Ed Cooley (born 1969) basketball coach
• Haskell Cooley
• James Cooley (born 1926), American mathematician, developer of the Cooley–Tukey fast Fourier transform
• Joe Cooley, Irish accordionist
• John K. Cooley (contemporary), American journalist and author, specializing in terrorism and the Middle East
• Lou Cooley (dates unknown), American 19th-century gunfighter, friend of Wyatt Earp at the time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1881)
• Mason Cooley (born 1927), American aphorist
• Mike Cooley, Irish-born engineer and workplace activist
• Mike Cooley (football coach), US football coach
• Mike Cooley (born 1966), American guitarist/singer/lyricist, and co-founder of the rock/alt country band, Drive-By Truckers
• Rusty Cooley
• Ryan Cooley (born 1988), Canadian television actor
• Spade Cooley (1910–1969), American western swing musician, murdered his wife
• Stephen Cooley (born 1947), American prosecutor for Los Angeles County
• Thomas B. Cooley (1871–1945), American Pediatrician, first described ß-Thalassemia
• Thomas F. Cooley, American professor of economics at the New York University Stern School of Business
• Thomas M. Cooley (1824–1898), American jurist, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
• Tonya Cooley
• Troy Cooley
• Wes Cooley (born 1932), American politician, congressman from Oregon
• Wes Cooley (motorcyclist)
• William Cooley (born 1783), Florida Pioneer
• Winnifred Harper Cooley (1874—1967), American feminist author

Place names

• Cooley peninsula, Ireland
• Birch Cooley Township, Minnesota, in Renville County, Minnesota, USA

Other

• Cooley Godward Kronish, Silicon Valley law firm
• Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley), central tale in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology
• Cooley High, 1975 film produced by American International Pictures
• Cooley High School, Detroit, Michigan, USA
• Cooley v. Board of Wardens (53 U.S. 299) (1853), United States Supreme Court case regarding shipping
• Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan, USA
• Cooley (whiskey), an Irish whiskey brand.

See also

• Cowley (disambiguation)
• Coley (disambiguation)
• Colley (disambiguation)
• Coolie