David Cook may refer to:
Entertainment
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David Cook (writer) (1940–2015), British novelist, screenwriter, and TV presenter
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David Essex
David Essex (born David Albert Cook; 23 July 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. Since the 1970s, he has attained 19 Top 40 singles in the UK (including two number ones) and 16 Top 40 albums. Internationally, Essex had the most ...
(David Albert Cook, born 1947), British pop and rock singer
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David Cook (game designer)
David "Zeb" Cook is an American game designer, best known for his work at TSR, Inc., where he was employed for over fifteen years. Cook designed several games, wrote the '' Expert Set'' for ''Dungeons & Dragons'', worked as lead designer of the ...
(active since 1980s), American game designer for TSR
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David L. Cook (born 1968), American Christian singer and comedian
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David Cook (singer)
David Roland Cook (born December 20, 1982) is an American rock singer-songwriter. Cook rose to fame after winning the seventh season of ''American Idol'' in 2008.
Prior to ''Idol'', Cook formed a high school band that released three studio a ...
(born 1982), winner of the seventh season of ''American Idol''
Politics
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Dave Cook (politician)
David John Scott Cook (4 August 1941 – 25 February 1993) was a British communist activist, also known as a rock climber.
Born in Warrington, Cook grew up in Solihull, and was educated at Solihull Grammar School and St Catharine's College, Camb ...
(1941–1993), British communist politician and climber
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David Cook (Northern Ireland politician)
David Somerville Cook (25 January 194419 September 2020) was an English-born solicitor and politician. He was a founding member of the non-sectarian, liberal-centre Alliance Party in Northern Ireland. He served on Belfast City Council from 1973 ...
(1944–2020), politician of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
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David Cook (Arkansas politician) (born 1950), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
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David Cook (Arizona politician) (active since 2016), member of the Arizona House of Representatives
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David Cook (Texas politician) (born 1971), member of the Texas House of Representatives and former mayor of Mansfield, Texas
Sports
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David Cook (cricketer)
David Roland Cook (born 2 September 1936) is a former English cricketer. Cook was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born at Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Cook made his first-class debut for Warwickshire against Oxfo ...
(born 1936), former English cricketer
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David Cook (cyclist)
David Cook (born 12 January 1969) is a British former cyclist. Cook competed in the individual road race at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He also represented England in the road race, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand
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(born 1969), British Olympic cyclist
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David Cook (racing driver)
David Cook (born 3 April 1975) is a British former racing driver, most notable for winning the British Formula Renault Championship in 1996, and for entering the International Formula 3000 series briefly in 1997 and 1998, driving for the family- ...
(born 1975), British former racing driver
Other people
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David J. Cook
David J. Cook (1840/1842 – April 2, 1907) was an American American Old West, western lawman and City Marshal of Denver, Colorado, responsible for over 3,000 arrests.
Biography Early years
Cook was born near La Porte, Indiana. Growing up, he ...
(1840/2–1907), Old West detective and marshal
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David C. Cook (1875–2016), a nonprofit Christian publisher in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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David Cook (literary critic)
David Cook (1929 – 30 March 2003) was a British academic, literary critic and anthologist. As a professor of literature at the Universities of Makerere and Ilorin, he played an important role in encouraging literature in East Africa.Gaaki K ...
(1929–2003), British professor of East African literature
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David Cook (Blockbuster founder)
Blockbuster LLC, formerly known as Blockbuster Video, was an American-based provider of home video and video game rental services. Services were offered primarily at video rental shops, but later alternatives included DVD-by-mail, streaming med ...
(active since 1978), American businessman
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David Cook (historian)
David Cook is an American historian and professor of the history of Islam at Rice University. Cook earned his PhD at the University of Chicago.
Cook is noted among scholars of Islam for his "diligent reading and clear translations" of Islamic text ...
(active since 2003), American professor, historian of Islam at Rice University
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E. David Cook (21st century), American religion professor at Wheaton College
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David Cook (artist)
David Wayne Cook is an American painter, sculptor and installation artist working primarily with found objects. He has also coauthored a book, ''Lemonade for the Lawnboy'', that later became a play. Cook works primarily with found objects - tar, ...
Found object artist in Minneapolis and Chicago
Other uses
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''David Cook'' (album), a 2008 album by David Cook
See also
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David Cooke (disambiguation)
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