Crookes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Derek Crookes
Derek Norman Crookes (born 5 March 1969) is a former South African cricketer who played 32 One Day Internationals for South Africa between 1994 and 2000. In domestic cricket he played for Natal, Gauteng, Easterns and the Highveld Lions.
He w ...
(born 1969), South African cricketer
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Jason Crookes
Jason Crookes (born ) is an English rugby league footballer who plays as a or er for the Sheffield Eagles in the Betfred Championship.
Background
Crookes was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.
Bradford
Crookes played junior rugb ...
(born 1990), English rugby league player
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Joy Crookes
Joy Elizabeth Akther Crookes (born 9 October 1998) is a British singer-songwriter. She incorporates details about relationships, self-reliance, her culture, her South London roots, and her identity in her music. Crookes has released three exten ...
(born 1998), British singer-songwriter
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Norman Crookes
Norman Samuel Crookes (born 15 November 1935) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket in South Africa from 1962 to 1970.
Career
Norman Crookes was an Off spin, off-spinner and useful lower-order batsman for KwaZulu-Natal cricket t ...
(born 1935), South African cricketer, father of Derek
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Ralph Crookes (1846–1897), English cricketer
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William Crookes
Sir William Crookes (; 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing t ...
(1832–1919), English chemist and physicist
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