Monk

A monk is a person who practices a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle.

Monk may also refer to:

In people:

• George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, a British general and politician in the Commonwealth and Restoration period
• George William Monk, a Canadian politician
• Henry Wentworth Monk, a millenarian prophet and early zionist
• Thelonious Monk, a jazz pianist and composer
• Meredith Monk, an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer
• Sophie Monk, an Australian pop singer, actress and occasional model
• Gerry "The Monk" Hutch, an Irish ex-gangster.
• SS-Major-General Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the SS-Staff Guard "Berlin" of the Nazi Germany.

In writing:

• The Monk, a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis
• Monk: The Mobile Magazine, a magazine featuring the adventures of Jim Crotty and Michael Lane
• Monk (comics), a vampire-werewolf hybrid and nemesis of Batman
• Monks, a character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

In entertainment:

• Monk (TV series), a television show about an obsessive-compulsive detective
  • Adrian Monk, the title character
• The Monks, a 1960s rock band
• The Monks (punk band), a 1970s punk band
• Meddling Monk, a character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who
• Monk, band led by former Over The Rhine guitarist Ric Hordinski.

In other:

• Monk (character class), a character class in Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop and computer role-playing games
• Monk (Montreal Metro), a metro station in Montreal, Québec
• Marty "Monk" Malone, a character from the video game The Godfather: The Game.
• Monk (programming language), a programming language proprietary to SeeBeyond eGate Enterprise Application Integration tool
• Monk, a slang term for Monkey

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