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 Prize for a fabricated story
• Jay Cooke (1821–1905), American financier, notable for financing Union effort in Civil War and Northern Pacific Railway
• 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 (1809–1895), 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 County, Texas
• Cooke City, Montana
• Cooke Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

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

See also

• Cooke Surname DNA Project
• Cook (surname)

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