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

★ 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