Cooke

Cooke is the surname of several notable people:

• Alan Cooke, English table tennis player, 2006 world champion 40+ at the World Veterans Table Tennis Championships in Bremen, Germany
• 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 (1978-), Australian cyclist
• Barrie Cooke (1931-), Irish painter
• Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793), English musician
• C. R. Cooke (1901-1996), English early Himalayan mountaineer
• Cubit Mordechai Cooke, 1825-1914, British botanist
• Dave Cooke, Canadian politician
• Deryck Cooke (1919-1975), British musicologist
• Edward William Cooke (1811-1880), English maritime artist
• Eric Edgar Cooke, murderer
• Francis Cooke, Mayflower passenger
• Francis Judd Cooke, American composer
• Gregory Carrington Cooke, MD, FACOG (1965 -), Gynecologic and Obstetrical Surgeon
• Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim
• Janet Cooke (1954-), American journalist, won a Pulitzer price for a fabricated story
• Jennifer Cooke, actress
• John Cooke, prosecutor in the 1649 trial of Charles I
• John Cooke (1824–1882), American industrialist, founder of Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
• John Esten Cooke (1830-1886), Confederate Army officer and novelist
• Keith Cooke, actor
• L. J. Cooke, first men's basketball coach at the University of Minnesota
• Martin Cooke, Opera singer
• Martin Cooke, 25th mayor of Hoboken, NJ
• Matt Cooke, hockey player
• Peter Cooke, Scouting notable, awardee of the Bronze Wolf in 1978
• Philip St. George Cooke, 19th century US Cavalry officer
• Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, British politician
• Sam Cooke (1931-1964), American singer/songwriter
• Terence Cardinal Cooke (1921-1984), Archbishop of New York
• William Fothergill Cooke (1806-1879), co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph

Places named Cooke include:

• Cooke County, Texas
• Cooke Township, Pennsylvania, pop. 117

Cooke may also refer to:

• Cooke Optics, a current lens manufacturer (originally Cooke of York)
• 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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