Brooke (surname)

Brooke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963), British Chief of the Imperial General Staff in WW 2
Arthur Brooke (poet) (died 1563), English poet
Arthur Brooke (lieutenant-general) (1772–1843), British general
Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791–1858), British baronet and travel writer
Arthur Brooke (entrepreneur) (1845–1918), founder of Brooke Bond tea company
Basil Stanlake Brooke (1888–1973), 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Irish Unionist politician
Bryan Nicholson Brooke (1915–1998), English surgeon
Charles Brooke (Jesuit) (1777–1852), English Jesuit
Charles Brooke (surgeon) (1804–1879), English surgeon and inventor
Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke (1829–1917), Second Rajah of Sarawak
Charles Vyner Brooke (1874–1963), Third and last Rajah of Sarawak
Charlotte Brooke (writer), (c.1740–1793), Irish author, youngest daughter of Henry Brooke
Christopher Brooke, English lawyer and author, MP from the City of York
Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (1927–2015), British medieval historian
Edward Brooke (1919–2015), American politician
Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Wyatt, alleged mistress of Henry VIII and estranged wife of the poet Thomas Wyatt
Elisabeth Brooke, Marchioness of Northampton (died 1565), leading lady at the court of Edward VI and Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth Brooke (writer) (1601–1683), English religious writer
Emily Brooke (born 1985), British inventor
Frances Brooke (1724–1789), English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator
Frederick H. Brooke (1876–1960), American architect from Washington, D.C.
George Brooke (conspirator) (1568–1603), executed for his part in two plots against the government of King James I
Graeme Brooke (born 1963), Australian boxer of the 1980s
Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818–1866), Irish stage actor, active in Ireland, England and Australia
Gwydion Brooke (1912–2005), British bassoonist
Heather Brooke (born 1970), American journalist
Henry Brooke (disambiguation)
Humphrey Brooke (physician) (1617-1693), British doctor
Humphrey Brooke (art historian) (1914-1988), British art historian
Iris Brooke (1905–post 1967), English artist and author
James Brooke (1803–1868), First Rajah of Sarawak
James Brooke (born 1955), American journalist
Jocelyn Brooke (Jocelyn Bernard Brooke), writer
Sir John Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet of the Brooke Baronetcy of Almondbury (1844–1920)
John Charles Brooke (1748–1794), FSA, Somerset Herald
John Weston Brooke (1880–1908), English Officer in the Boer War, son of John Arthur Brooke
Jonatha Brooke (born 1964), American folk-rock singer-songwriter
John Mercer Brooke (1826–1906), scientist; USN & CSN
Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville (born 1934), British politician and son of Henry Brooke
Peter Brooke (17th-century MP), English politician
Peter Brooke (businessman) (1929–2020), American businessman
Ralph Brooke (1553–1625), English Officer of Arms in the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I
Richard Kendall Brooke (1930–1996), a South African ornithologist
Sir Robert Weston Brooke, 2nd Baronet of the Brooke Baronetcy of Almondbury (1885–1942)
Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), poet
Samuel Brooke (died 1632?), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Stopford Brooke (chaplain) (1832–1916), Irish churchman and writer
Stopford Brooke (politician) (1859–1938), British Member of Parliament from 1906 to 1910
Sylvia Brett (1885–1917), Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak
Cecil Brooke-Short (1897–1934), English cricketer
Tim Brooke-Taylor (born 1940), English actor
Zachary Brooke (theologian) (1716–1788), English clergyman and academic
Zachary Nugent Brooke, (1883–1946), British medieval historian and writer
Zinzan Brooke (born 1965), Former New Zealand rugby union footballer who played at number 8.

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