Cooley is a surname of

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons were a Cultural identity, cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo- ...

and

Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...

origin. * Bertram Cooley (1874–1935), South African cricketer *

Charles Cooley Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist and the son of Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan, was a found ...

(1864–1929), American sociologist *

Chelsea Cooley Chelsea Scott Cooley Altman (born October 30, 1983) is an American actress, singer, model and beauty pageant titleholder who has competed in the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants and who has held the Miss USA 2005 title. As M ...

(born 1983), Miss USA 2005 *

Chris Cooley Christopher Ken Cooley (born July 11, 1982) is a former American football tight end who played for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Utah State University, and was drafted by the Redski ...

(born 1982), American professional football player *

David P. Cooley David Paul Cooley (February 15, 1960 – March 25, 2009) was a Lockheed test pilot and retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer, responsible for developmental flight testing of the F-117 Nighthawk. He was killed while flying a test missi ...

(1960–2009), American test pilot * Dennis Cooley (born 1944), Canadian poet, professor at the University of Manitoba *

Denton Cooley Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920 – November 18, 2016) was an American heart and cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The T ...

(1920−2016), American physician and heart surgeon *

Ed Cooley Ed Cooley (born September 10, 1969) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the Providence College Friars men's basketball team. Cooley held the same position at Fairfield University from 2006 to 2011. He received ...

(born 1969), American college basketball coach *

Haskell Cooley The Cathedral Quartet, also known as the Cathedrals, was an American southern gospel quartet who performed from 1964 to December 1999. The group's final lineup consisted of Glen Payne (lead), George Younce (bass), Ernie Haase (tenor), Scott Fow ...

, member of American southern gospel quartet The Cathedrals *

Horace S. Cooley Horace S. Cooley (1806 – April 2, 1850) was an American politician. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Cooley studied medicine and then law. In 1840, Cooley moved to Rushville, Illinois and then finally settled in Quincy, Illinois. In 1842, Coo ...

(1806-1850), American politician *

Jack Cooley Jack Ryan Cooley (born April 12, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for Ryukyu Golden Kings of the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for the University of Notre Dame. High school career Cooley was a three-year start ...

(born 1991), American basketball player * Jacquelin Smith Cooley (1883–1965), American botanist and mycologist *

James Cooley James William Cooley (1926 – June 29, 2016) was an American mathematician. Cooley received a B.A. degree in 1949 from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, an M.A. degree in 1951 from Columbia University, New York, NY, and a Ph.D. degree in 1961 in app ...

(1926-2016), American mathematician, developer of the Cooley–Tukey fast Fourier transform * Jodi Cooley, American physicist *

Joe Cooley Joe Cooley (1924–20 December 1973) was an Irish musician known for his traditional accordion music. Biography Cooley was born in Peterswell, County Galway in 1924. Both his parents were melodeon players, and Joe began playing accordio ...

(1924–1973), Irish accordionist *

John K. Cooley John Kent Cooley (November 25, 1927 – August 6, 2008) was an American journalist and author who specialized in islamist groups and the Middle East. Based in Athens, he worked as a radio and off-air television correspondent for ''ABC News'' and wa ...

(1927–2008), American journalist and author, specializing in terrorism and the Middle East *

Logan Cooley Logan Cooley (born May 4, 2004) is an American collegiate ice hockey player for the University of Minnesota of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Cooley was drafted third overall in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft by the Arizona Coyot ...

(born 2004), American ice hockey player * Lou Cooley (dates unknown), American 19th-century gunfighter, friend of Wyatt Earp at the time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1881) *

Mason Cooley Mason Cooley (1927 – July 25, 2002) was an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me." He was professor emeritus of French, speech and world literature at ...

(1927–2002), American aphorist *

Mike Cooley (engineer) Michael Joseph Edward Cooley (23 March 1934 – 4 September 2020) was an Irish-born engineer, writer and trade union leader, best known for his work on the social effects of technology, "Socially Useful Production" and "Human Centred Systems". H ...

(born 1934), Irish-born engineer and workplace activist *

Mike Cooley (football coach) Michael T. Cooley ( – June 13, 1988) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Lehigh University from 1962 to 1964, compiling a record of 5–21–1. Cooley played college football at the University of ...

(c. 1920–1988), American football coach *

Mike Cooley (musician) John Michael Cooley (born September 14, 1966) is an American songwriter, singer, and guitarist from Tuscumbia, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals. He is a member of the band Drive-By Truckers. Background Cooley received his first guitar at age 8, ...

(born 1966), American guitarist/singer/lyricist, and co-founder of the rock/alt country band,

Drive-By Truckers Drive-By Truckers are an American rock band based in Athens, Georgia. Two of five current members (Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley) are originally from The Shoals region of northern Alabama and met as roommates at the University of North Alabama ...

Rita Nealon Cooley Rita Nealon Cooley (often published as Rita W. Cooley; died October 1, 2006) was an American political scientist. She was a professor of political science at New York University, and was chair of the Department of Politics there in 1975. She was t ...

(1919/1920–2006), American political scientist *

Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley (born April 27, 1970) is an American guitarist, known for his highly refined guitar technique. He is regarded as one of the fastest guitarists in the United States and a master of the shredding technique of guitar. ''Guitar Player'' ...

, American guitarist *

Ryan Cooley Ryan Hadison Cooley (born May 18, 1988) is a Canadian consultant and former actor. He is best known for his role as James Tiberius "J.T." Yorke on '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' which he starred in from 2001 until 2007. He also studied thea ...

(born 1988), Canadian television actor *

Spade Cooley Donnell Clyde "Spade" Cooley (December 17, 1910 – November 23, 1969) was an American convicted murderer and former Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality. In 1961 he was arrested and convicted for the Ap ...

(1910–1969), American western swing musician, murdered his wife *

Stephen Cooley Stephen Lawrence Cooley (born May 1, 1947) is an American politician and prosecutor. He was the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2000 to 2012. Cooley was re-elected in 2004 and again in 2008. In 2010, Cooley won the Republican nominati ...

(born 1947), American prosecutor for Los Angeles County * Thomas B. Cooley (1871–1945), American Pediatrician, first described β-thalassemia *

Thomas F. Cooley Thomas Ferguson Cooley (January 3, 1943 - October 10, 2021) was the Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics at the New York University Stern School of Business. He served as Dean of the Stern School from 2002 to January 2010. He was also a Profe ...

, American professor of economics at the New York University Stern School of Business *

Thomas M. Cooley Thomas McIntyre Cooley (January 6, 1824 – September 12, 1898) was the 25th Justice and a Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, between 1864 and 1885. Born in Attica, New York, he was father to Charles Cooley, a distinguished American so ...

(1824–1898), American jurist, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court *

Tonya Cooley Tonya Cooley (born January 7, 1980, in Visalia, California) is an American actress and television personality. She is a former cast member on MTV's reality television series, '' The Real World: Chicago'', the 11th season of '' The Real World'', w ...

(born 1980), American actress and reality television personality *

Troy Cooley Troy James Cooley (born 9 December 1965) is a former first-class cricketer who played for Tasmania, and was bowling coach for the England cricket team for several years before returning to Australia in 2006. Career Born in Launceston, Tasmania, ...

(born 1965), cricketer for the Tasmanian Tigers *

Wes Cooley (motorcyclist) Wester Steven Cooley, (June 28, 1956 – October 16, 2021), better known as Wes, was an American former motorcycle road racer in the AMA Superbike class. He won the 1979 and 1980 AMA Superbike Championships on a Yoshimura Suzuki GS1000s.

(born 1956), American motorcycle racer * Wes Cooley (politician) (1932-2015), American politician, congressman from Oregon *

William Cooley William Cooley (1783–1863) was one of the first American settlers, and a regional leader, in what is now known as Broward County in the state of Florida. His family was killed by Seminoles in 1836, during the Second Seminole War. The attack, ...

(1783–1863), American settler in Florida *

William Desborough Cooley William Desborough Cooley (c. 1795 – 1883) was an Irish geographer. Discoveries by European explorers gradually showed that a number of his theories about Central Africa, though strongly held, were incorrect. In other controversies his positio ...

(1795?–1883), Irish geographer *

William T. Cooley William Theodore Cooley (born February 4, 1966) is a retired senior United States Air Force officer who previously served as commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory. He is the first general officer in US Air Force history to be court-ma ...

(born 1966), American major general in the United States Air Force *

Winnifred Harper Cooley Winnifred Harper Cooley (October 2, 1874 – October 20, 1967) was an American author and lecturer. Early life Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, she was the daughter of Ida Husted Harper. Cooley graduated in 1896 with an A.B. in Ethics from St ...

(1874–1967), American feminist author

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