Hooke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Hilda Mary Hooke (1898–1978), Canadian writer
* John Hooke (1270–1275),
Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
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Luke Joseph Hooke
Luke Joseph Hooke (born Dublin in 1716; died in Saint Cloud, near Paris, 16 April 1796) was a controversial Irish theologian, representing in Paris the "Catholicism of the Enlightenment". The laws of civil society should be so designed, he argued, ...
(1716–1796), Irish theologian
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Robert Hooke (1635–1703), English natural philosopher who discovered
Hooke's law
In physics, Hooke's law is an empirical law which states that the force () needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance () scales linearly with respect to that distance—that is, where is a constant factor characteristic of ...
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S. H. Hooke
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Samuel Henry Hooke (January 21, 1874 – January 17, 1968) was an English scholar writing on comparative religion. He is known for his ''Bible in Basic English'' translation.
He was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He was educated ...
(1874–1968), English scholar of comparative religion
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