Cooke is a surname
derived from the occupation of
cook
Cook or The Cook may refer to:
Food preparation
* Cooking, the preparation of food
* Cook (domestic worker), a household staff member who prepares food
* Cook (professional), an individual who prepares food for consumption in the food industry
* ...
. Notable people with the surname include:
*
Alexander Cooke
Alexander Cooke (died February 1614) was an actor in the King's Men and the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the acting companies of William Shakespeare, John Heminges and Richard Burbage.
Cooke was most likely introduced to the theatre by John Hemi ...
(died 1614), English actor
*
Alfred Tyrone Cooke, of the Indo-Pakistani wars
*
Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke (born Alfred Cooke; 20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States.[Amos Starr Cooke
Amos Starr Cooke (December 1, 1810 – March 20, 1871) was an American educator and businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was patriarch of a family that influenced Hawaii during the 20th century.
Life
Amos Starr Cooke was born in Danbury, Co ...]
(1810–1871), found of Royal School and Castle & Cooke in Hawaii
*
Anna Rice Cooke
Anna Rice Cooke (September 5, 1853 – August 8, 1934) was a patron of the arts and the founder of the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Biography
Anna Charlotte Rice was born on September 5, 1853, into a prominent missionary family on Oahu, Hawaii. Her fa ...
(1853–1934), patron of the arts and founder of the Honolulu Academy of Arts
*
Anthony Cooke
Sir Anthony Cooke (1504 – 11 June 1576) was an English humanist scholar. He was tutor to Edward VI.
Family
Anthony Cooke was the only son of John Cooke (died 10 October 1516), esquire, of Gidea Hall, Essex, and Alice Saunders (died 1510), da ...
(1505–1576), British scholar
*
Baden Cooke (born 1978), Australian cyclist
*
Barrie Cooke (born 1931), Irish painter
*
Bates Cooke
Bates Cooke (December 23, 1787 – May 31, 1841) was an American lawyer and politician.
Life
He was the son of Captain Lemuel Cooke who had fought in the American Revolutionary War. Bates and his brother Lathrop participated in the War of 1812. ...
, US Representative 1831–1833, and NY State Comptroller 1839–1841
*
Benjamin Cooke (1734–1793), British musician
*
Beryl Cooke
Beryl Cooke (1 November 1906 – 21 August 2001) was an English actress. Her career spanned six decades; she is most familiar to British audiences as Aunt Lucy in the sitcom '' Happy Ever After'' and Mrs. Vance in the BBC drama '' Tenko''.
...
(1906–2001), British actress
*
C. R. Cooke (Conrad Reginald Cooke, 1901–1996), English early Himalayan mountaineer
*
Charles Cooke (disambiguation), several people
*
Chauncey H. Cooke (1846–1919), American soldier in the U.S. Civil War
*
Christian Cooke (born 1986), English actor
*
Clarence Hyde Cooke
Clarence Hyde Cooke (April 17, 1876 – August 23, 1944) was a politician and businessman in Honolulu.
Life
Clarence Cooke was born April 17, 1876 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the second son of Charles Montague Cooke and Anna Rice Cooke, and gr ...
(1876–1944), businessman in Hawaii
*
Dave Cooke
Dave Cooke (born August 1, 1952) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was an NDP member of the provincial legislature from 1977 to 1997, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.
Background
Cooke was born in Wind ...
, Canadian politician
*
Denise D'Ascenzo
Denise D'Ascenzo Cooke (January 30, 1958 December 7, 2019) was an American television news anchorwoman at WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut. She worked there for 33 years (19862019), becoming the longest-serving anchor at WFSB-TV. D'Ascenzo w ...
Cooke (19582019), American news anchor
*
Derek Cooke
Derek Cooke Jr. (born August 23, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for Treviso Basket of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played three years of Division I college basketball for Wyoming.
High school career
Cooke attended Frien ...
(born 1991), basketball player for
Hapoel Gilboa Galil
Hapoel Gilboa Galil ( he, הפועל גלבוע גליל) is a professional basketball club that is based in north-east Israel. The club plays its home game in the Israeli Basketball Premier League (the top tier of Israeli basketball) in a 2,250- ...
of the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
*
Deryck Cooke
Deryck Cooke (14 September 1919 – 26 October 1976) was a British musician, musicologist, broadcaster and Gustav Mahler expert.
Life
Cooke was born in Leicester to a poor, working-class family; his father died when he was a child, but his mother ...
(1919–1975), British musicologist
*
Doc Cook
Charles L. Cooke (September 3, 1891 – December 25, 1958), known as Doc Cook, was an American jazz bandleader and arranger. Cook was a Doctor of Music, awarded by the Chicago Musical College in 1926.
Born in Louisville, he first worked as a com ...
(Charles L. Cooke, 1891–1958), American jazz bandleader
*
Dusty Cooke
Allen Lindsey "Dusty" Cooke (June 23, 1907 – November 21, 1987), was an American professional baseball outfielder, coach, and manager, in Major League Baseball (MLB), who played for three different big league teams, between and . During his p ...
(1907–1987), American
professional baseball player
*
Edmund F. Cooke (1885–1967), US congressman from New York
*
Edward William Cooke
Edward William Cooke (27 March 1811 – 4 January 1880) was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener.
Life and work
Cooke was born in Pentonville, London, the son of well-known line engraver George Cooke; his uncle, William B ...
(1811–1880), English maritime artist
*
Eric Edgar Cooke
Eric Edgar Cooke (25 February 1931 – 26 October 1964), nicknamed the Night Caller and later the Nedlands Monster, was an Australian serial killer who terrorised the city of Perth, Western Australia, from September 1958 to August 1963. Cooke c ...
, Australian murderer
*
Francis Cooke
Francis Cooke (c.1583 – April 7, 1663) was a Leiden Separatist, who went to America in 1620 on the Pilgrim ship ''Mayflower'', which arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was a founding member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a signer of ...
, Passenger on the Mayflower
*
Francis Judd Cooke
Francis Judd Cooke (December 28, 1910 – May 18, 1995) was an American composer, organist, cellist, pianist, conductor, choir director, and professor.
Life
Cooke was born December 28, 1910 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a family of New England mi ...
(1910–1995), American composer
*
Geoff Cooke (disambiguation) Geoff Cooke may refer to:
*Geoff Cooke (rugby union)
Geoff Cooke OBE (born ) is a former rugby union player, an England Rugby coach and manager of the 1993 British Lions rugby union tour to New Zealand.
Early career
During his playing career he ...
, several people
*
George Cooke (disambiguation), several people
*
H. Basil S. Cooke (1915–2018), Canadian paleontologist
*
Hope Cooke
Hope Cooke (born June 24, 1940) was the "Gyalmo" () ( Queen Consort) of the 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal. Their wedding took place in March 1963. She was termed ''Her Highness The Crown Princess of Sikkim'' and became th ...
, Queen of Sikkim
*
Jack Kent Cooke
Jack Kent Cooke (October 25, 1912 – April 6, 1997) was a Canadian-American businessman in broadcasting and professional sports. Starting in sales, Cooke was very successful, eventually becoming a partner in a network of radio stations and news ...
(1912–1997), Canadian entrepreneur
* Sir
James Douglas Cooke (1879–1949), MP for Hammersmith South
*
James J. Cooke, American historian, author, academic and soldier
*
James W. Cooke, American naval officer
*
Janet Cooke
Janet Leslie Cooke (born July 23, 1954) is an American former journalist. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for an article written for ''The Washington Post''. The story was later discovered to have been fabricated and Cooke returned the Pul ...
(born 1954), American journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story
*
Jay Cooke
Jay Cooke (August 10, 1821 – February 16, 1905) was an American financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the postwar development of railroads in the northwestern United States. He is generally acknowle ...
(1821–1905), American financier, notable for financing Union effort in Civil War and Northern Pacific Railway
*
Jennifer Cooke
Jennifer Cooke (born September 19, 1964) is a former American actress. She is best known for her roles as Los Angeles Resistance Cell#Other Members, Elizabeth Maxwell on the NBC science fiction television series ''V (1984 TV series), V'' (1984†...
, actress
*
John Cooke (disambiguation), several people
*
John William Cooke (1919–1968), Argentine politician and revolutionary
*
Joseph Platt Cooke (1730–1816), in American Revolutionary War
*
Keith Cooke
Keith Cooke Hirabayashi (born September 17, 1959; also known as Keith H. Cooke) is an American martial artist, actor and an occasional stuntman. He is best known for portraying Reptile from ''Mortal Kombat'' (1995) and Sub-Zero from the sequ ...
, actor
*
L. J. Cooke (Louis Joseph Cooke, 1868–1943), 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
*
Logan Cooke
Logan Edward Cooke (born July 28, 1995) is an American football punter for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Mississippi State. He has been the regular Jaguars punter since the 2018 ...
(born 1995), American football player
*
Lorrin A. Cooke
Lorrin Alanson Cooke (April 6, 1831 – August 12, 1902) was an American politician and the 57th governor of Connecticut from 1897 to 1899.
Biography
Cooke was born in New Marlborough, Massachusetts, the Son of Levi Cooke and Amelia (Todd) Coo ...
(1831–1902), American politician, governor of Connecticut
*
Martin Cooke (disambiguation), several people
*
Matt Cooke
Matthew David Cooke (born September 7, 1978) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played sixteen seasons and 1046 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). Cooke won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins during the ...
, hockey player
*
Mel Cooke
Melville Lance Cooke (30 May 1934 – 5 September 2013) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand twenty three times between 1959 and 1964.
Playing career
Cooke was a member of the Hornby club in the Canterbury Rugby Le ...
(1934–2013), New Zealand rugby league footballer
*
Mildred Cooke
Mildred Cecil, Baroness Burghley (née Cooke; 1526 – 4 April 1589) was an English noblewoman and translator in the sixteenth century. She was the wife of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the most trusted adviser of Elizabeth I, and the mother ...
(1524-1589) - was an English noblewoman and translator.
*
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (12 July 1825, in Horning, Norfolk – 12 November 1914, in Southsea, Hampshire) was an English botanist and mycologist who was, at various points, a London schoolteacher, a Kew mycologist, curator at the India Museum, jour ...
(1825–1914), British botanist
*
Nathaniel Cooke (19th century), designer of the standard set of chess figures
*
Nelson Cooke (1919–2018), Australian cellist
*
Nicole Cooke
Nicole Denise Cooke, MBE (born 13 April 1983) is a Welsh former professional road bicycle racer and Commonwealth, Olympic and World road race champion. At Beijing in 2008 she became the first British woman to win a Gold Olympic medal in an ...
(born 1983), British cyclist
*
Peter Cooke (Scouting)
*
Philip St. George Cooke (1809–1895), 19th century US cavalry officer
*
Pinny Cooke
Audre "Pinny" Cooke (December 26, 1923 – August 1, 2004) was an American social activist and politician from New York.
Life
She was born Audre Trupin on December 26, 1923, in Syracuse, New York. There she attended Nottingham High School. She gr ...
(1923–2004), New York politician, assemblywoman from Rochester
*
Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand judge
*
Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892), American author, poet
*
Ross Cooke (born 1988), English professional wrestler
*
Sam Cooke (1931–1964), American singer/songwriter
* Sir
Samuel Cooke
Samuel Winter Cooke (13 March 1847 – 26 June 1929) was an Australian politician.
Early life
Cooke was the son of pastoralist Cecil Pybus Cooke and Arbella, née Winter. He was sent to England for his schooling, where he attended Mr S ...
(1912–1978), British judge
*
Samuel Nathaniel Cooke (S. N. Cooke) (born 1883), English architect
*
Sarah Cooke
Sarah Cooke (died 1688) was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century. She was a member of the King's Company, based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She played a number of lead roles during the 1680s.
Her aunt was the governess to th ...
(died 1688), English actress
*
Sasha Cooke
Sasha Cooke is an American mezzo-soprano.
Cooke was born in Riverside, California, and grew up in College Station, Texas, where her parents are professors of Russian at Texas A&M University. She earned a bachelor's degree from Rice University and ...
, American mezzo-soprano
*
Sidney Cooke
Sidney Charles Cooke (born 18 April 1927) is an English convicted child molester and suspected serial killer serving two life sentences. He was the leader of a paedophile ring suspected of murdering up to twenty young boys in the 1970s and 1980s. ...
(born 1927), paedophile and child killer
*
Steve Cooke (born 1970), baseball player
*
Terence Cooke
Terence James Cooke (March 1, 1921 – October 6, 1983) was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of New York from 1968 until his death, quietly battling leukemia throughout his tenure. He was named a cardin ...
(1921–1983), Cardinal, and Archbishop of New York
*
Thomas Cooke (disambiguation), several people
*
Walter E. Cooke (1910–1982), New York politician
*
Walter H. Cooke (1838–1909), American recipient of the Medal of Honor
*
Weldon B. Cooke (1884–1914), American pioneer aviator killed in crash
*
Wells Cooke (1858–1916), American ornithologist
*
William Cooke (disambiguation), several people
See also
*
Cook (disambiguation)
Cook or The Cook may refer to:
Food preparation
* Cooking, the preparation of food
* Cook (domestic worker), a household staff member who prepares food
* Cook (professional), an individual who prepares food for consumption in the food industry
* ...
References
{{surname, Cooke
English-language surnames
Occupational surnames
English-language occupational surnames