Cooke
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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
- Alistair Cooke KBE (1908-2004), journalist and broadcaster
- Anthony Cooke (1505-1576), British scholar
- Barrie Cooke (1931-), Irish painter
- Brennen Pierce Cooke, AKA "GAZEEBO" of HALO 2 Multiplayer fame
- Dave Cooke, Canadian politician
- Deryck Cooke (1919-1975), British musicologist
- 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
- Peter Cooke, Scouting notable, awardee of the Bronze Wolf in 1978
- 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 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
