Hooker (surname)

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

• Brad Hooker, English philosopher
• Cameron Hooker, American man sentenced to prison for 105 years for the kidnapping of Colleen Stan
• Charles E. Hooker (1825–1914), U.S. Representative from Mississippi
• Destinee Hooker (born 1987), American volleyball player
• Earl Hooker (1929–1970), American blues guitarist
• Elon Huntington Hooker (1869–1938) American entrepreneur
• Evelyn Hooker (1907–1996), American psychologist
• Fair Hooker (born 1947), American professional football player
• Frank A. Hooker (1844-1911), American jurist
• George Hooker, Australian rugby league footballer
• George Hooker, English cricketer
• George W. Hooker (1838-1902), American military officer and politician
• H. Lester Hooker (1921–1999), American college sports coach
• Henrietta Hooker (1851–1929), American botanist
• Henry Hooker (1828–1907), American Old West rancher
• Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822–1907), American suffragette leader
• Jake Hooker (journalist) (born 1973), American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• James Hooker (1792–1858), New York politician
• James Benjamin Hooker (1910–1984), Canadian politician
• Janusz Hooker, Australian businessman
• Jeff Hooker (born 1965), American retired soccer player and current coach
• John Hooker (English constitutionalist) (c. 1527–1601) English writer, solicitor, antiquary, civic administrator and advocate of republican government
• John Daggett Hooker (1838–1911), social leader, amateur scientist and astronomer, donor of Hooker Telescope
• John Lee Hooker (1917–2001), American blues musician
• Joseph Hooker (1814–1879), American Civil War major general
• Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), English botanist
• Katharine Putnam Hooker (1849–1935), American writer, philanthropist and socialite
• Leslie Joseph Hooker (1903-1976), Australian property entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist
• Malik Hooker (born 1996), American football player
• Marjorie Hooker (1908–1976), American geologist
• Morna Hooker (born 1931), British theologian and New Testament scholar
• Philip Hooker (1766–1836), American architect
• Reginald Hawthorn Hooker (1867–1944), English statistician, son of Joseph Dalton Hooker
• Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian
• Richard Hooker (author) , pseudonym of H. Richard Hornberger (1924–1997), American writer and surgeon
• Robbie Hooker (born 1967), Australian footballer and football manager
• Ron Hooker (born 1935), English former cricketer
• S. Percy Hooker (1860–1915), American politician from New York and New Hampshire
• Stanley Hooker (1907–1984), English aviation engineer
• Steve Hooker (born 1982), Australian pole vaulter
• Thomas Hooker (1586–1647), Puritan leader
• William Hooker (musician) (born 1946), American jazz drummer and composer
• William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), English botanist
• Worthington Hooker (1806–1867), American physician
• Hooker (Kent cricketer), 18th century English cricketer