Booker may refer to:
Places
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Booker, Buckinghamshire
Booker is a hamlet within the parish of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, which has absorbed into the expanding suburbs of High Wycombe. There are several housing areas in Booker, mainly modern estates. At the 2011 Census the hamlet was ...
, a hamlet in England
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Booker, Texas
Booker is a town in Lipscomb and Ochiltree counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It was named for B.F. Booker, a civil engineer for the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway. The population was 1,516 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Booker is located at . ...
, a town in the United States
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RAF Booker
Royal Air Force Booker or more simply RAF Booker is a former Royal Air Force installation located south west of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and north east of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.
Booker was opened as a flying training sc ...
, a Royal Air Force airfield from 1941 to 1963
People
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Booker (name) Booker is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
* Charles Booker (American politician), (born 1984) member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
* Charles Booker (Australian politician) (1865-1925), memb ...
, a list of people with the surname or given name
Arts and entertainment
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''Booker'' (TV series), a spin-off of ''21 Jump Street''
* , a fictional character in ''Case Closed''
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Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a Literary award, literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United King ...
, presented annually for the best original full-length novel
* Booker, a character in the comic strip ''
U.S. Acres''
* Booker DeWitt, protagonist of the video game ''
BioShock Infinite
''BioShock Infinite'' is a first-person shooter video game developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. The third installment in the ''BioShock'' series, ''Infinite'' was released worldwide for the Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, ...
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* Booker Baxter-Carter, son of Raven Baxter in the television series ''
Raven's Home
''Raven's Home'' is an American family sitcom television series developed by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas that premiered on Disney Channel on July 21, 2017. The series stars Raven-Symoné, Issac Ryan Brown, Navia Robinson, Jason Maybaum, Sky K ...
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Brands and enterprises
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Booker Group
Booker Group Limited is a British food wholesale operator and subsidiary of Tesco.
In January 2017, it was announced that the British multinational supermarket retailer Tesco had agreed to purchase the company for £3.7 billion. It was confirm ...
, the United Kingdom 's largest food wholesale operator
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Booker Software
Booker Software, Inc. is a software company headquartered in New York City. Its products are cloud-based management systems for spas and salon stores.
History
Booker is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Irvine, California, Scottsdal ...
, a software company headquartered in New York City
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Booker's
Booker's bourbon is one of the small batch bourbons produced by the Jim Beam distillery, which is owned by Beam Suntory (a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings
(commonly referred to as simply Suntory) is a Japanese multinational brewing and dist ...
, a bourbon produced by the Jim Beam distillery
Roles
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Booker, one who plans the order of and events within pro wrestling matches.
* Booking agent, or
talent agent
A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, authors, broadcast journalists, film directors, musicians, models, professional athletes, screenwriters, writers, and other professionals in various entertainment or sport ...
, a person who helps to arrange appearances by entertainers
Other uses
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United States v. Booker'', a 2005 Supreme Court ruling permitting federal judges to depart from the United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines
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Booker (horse)
Booker (foaled 26 August 2014) is a Group 1 winning Australian thoroughbred racehorse.
Background
Booker was sold for A$230,000 at the 2016 Inglis Australian Premier Yearling Sale.
Racing career
In 2019, Booker won the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate ...
Australian racehorse
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