Hooker is a surname, originally indicating someone who made hooks or an agricultural worker who used hooks. Notable people with the surname include:
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Amani Hooker (born 1998), American football player
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Brad Hooker (born 1957), English philosopher
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Cameron Hooker
Colleen J. Stan (born December 31, 1956) is an American woman who was kidnapped and held as a sex slave by Cameron and Janice Hooker in their Red Bluff, California home for over seven years, between 1977 and 1984. At Cameron Hooker's trial, Stan ...
, American man sentenced to prison for 105 years for the kidnapping of
Colleen Stan
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Charles E. Hooker
Charles Edward Hooker (April 9, 1825 – January 8, 1914) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Biography
Charles E. Hooker
Born in Union, South Carolina, Hooker was raised in Laurens District, South Carolina. He attended the common schoo ...
(1825–1914), U.S. Representative from Mississippi
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Dan Hooker, New Zealand mixed martial artist
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Destinee Hooker (born 1987), American volleyball player
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Earl Hooker (1929–1970), American blues guitarist
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Elon Huntington Hooker
Elon Huntington Hooker (December 23, 1869 – May 10, 1938) was the founder of Hooker Chemical Company, Hooker Electrochemical Company.
Biography
From a New England family, Elon Hooker obtained degrees in civil engineering from the Universit ...
(1869–1938), American entrepreneur
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Evelyn Hooker (1907–1996), American psychologist
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Fair Hooker (born 1947), American professional football player
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Frank A. Hooker
Frank A. Hooker (January 16, 1844 – July 10, 1911) was an American jurist.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Hooker was trained to be a stone mason. He then studied at University of Michigan Law School and graduated in 1865. He practiced law i ...
(1844–1911), American jurist
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George Hooker (rugby league)
George "Babe" Hooker was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s. He played in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL).
Hooker played for the Eastern Suburbs Eastern Suburbs may refer to:
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*Eastern Su ...
, Australian rugby league footballer
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George Hooker (cricketer)
George Spencer Hooker (30 May 1836 – 1877) was an English cricketer. Hooker's batting and bowling styles are unknown. He was born at East Grinstead, Sussex.
Hodson made his first-class debut for Sussex against the Marylebone Cricket C ...
(1836–1877), English cricketer
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George W. Hooker
George W. Hooker (February 6, 1838 – August 6, 1902) was an American Civil War veteran who received the Medal of Honor. In 1862 Hooker captured 116 Confederate soldiers along with their colonel and company colors by himself. For this action he w ...
(1838–1902), American military officer and politician
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H. Lester Hooker (1921–1999), American college sports coach
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Hendon Hooker
Alan Hendon Hooker (born January 13, 1998) is an American football quarterback. He played college football for Virginia Tech before transferring to Tennessee in 2021.
Early life and high school career
Hooker attended James B. Dudley High Sch ...
(born 1998), American football player
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Henrietta Hooker (1851–1929), American botanist
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Henry Hooker (1828–1907), American Old West rancher
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Isabella Beecher Hooker
Isabella Beecher Hooker (February 22, 1822 – January 25, 1907) was a leader, lecturer and social activist in the American suffragist movement.
Early life
Isabella Holmes Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the fifth child and secon ...
(1822–1907), American suffragette leader
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Jake Hooker (journalist) Jake Hooker (October 27, 1973 Newton, Massachusetts) is an American journalist and recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for investigations done while in China over concer ...
(born 1973), American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
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James Hooker (disambiguation)
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Janusz Hooker (born 1969), Australian businessman
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Jeff Hooker (born 1965), American retired soccer player and current coach
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John Hooker (English constitutionalist) (c. 1527 – 1601), English writer, solicitor, antiquary, civic administrator and advocate of republican government
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John Daggett Hooker
John Daggett Hooker (1838–1911), was an American ironmaster, amateur scientist and astronomer, and philanthropist who made the initial donations for the 100-inch Hooker Telescope, one of the most famous telescopes in observational astronomy of ...
(1838–1911), social leader, amateur scientist and astronomer, donor of Hooker Telescope
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John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often ...
(1917–2001), American blues musician
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Johnny Hooker
John Donovan Maia, more commonly known as Johnny Hooker (Recife, 6 August 1987), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor and screenwriter. He won the Prêmio da Música Brasileira for Best Singer in the Pop Music category.
His music has been feat ...
(born 1987), Brazilian rock/MPB musician
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Joseph Hooker (1814–1879), American Civil War major general
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Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), English botanist, son of William Jackson Hooker
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Katharine Putnam Hooker
Katharine Putnam Hooker (May 2, 1849 – July 20, 1935) was an American travel writer, philanthropist, and socialite.
Early life
Katharine Putnam was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Samuel Osgood Putnam and Elizabeth Noble Whitney. ...
(1849–1935), American writer, philanthropist and socialite
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Leslie Joseph Hooker (1903–1976), Australian property entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist
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Malik Hooker (born 1996), American football player
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Marjorie Hooker
Marjorie Hooker (10 May 1908 – 4 May 1976) was an American geologist who worked to collect data on the make-up of igneous and metamorphic rocks as well as acted as a mineral specialist for the United States Department of State from 1943 to 194 ...
(1908–1976), American geologist
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Morna Hooker (born 1931), British theologian and New Testament scholar
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Olivia Hooker (1915–2018), United States Coast Guard officer and psychologist
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Philip Hooker (1766–1836), American architect
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Quinton Hooker (born 1995), American basketball player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional sports, professional competition in Israeli sports club, club basketball, making ...
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Reginald Hawthorn Hooker
Reginald Hawthorn Hooker (12 January 1867 – 2 June 1944) English civil servant, statistician and meteorologist. Hooker was a pioneer in the application of correlation analysis to economics and agricultural meteorology.
Biography
Reginald ...
(1867–1944), English statistician, son of Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian
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Richard Hooker (author), pseudonym of H. Richard Hornberger (1924–1997), American writer and surgeon
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Robbie Hooker (born 1967), Australian footballer and football manager
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Ron Hooker (1935–2019), English former cricketer
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S. Percy Hooker
Samuel Percy Hooker (December 5, 1860 – April 24, 1915) was an American politician from New York (state), New York and New Hampshire.
Life
He was born on December 5, 1860, in Black Earth (town), Wisconsin, Black Earth, Dane County, Wisconsin, t ...
(1860–1915), American politician from New York and New Hampshire
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Stanley Hooker (1907–1984), English aviation engineer
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Steve Hooker
''yes'Steve is a masculine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Steven or Stephen
Notable people with the name include:
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* Steve Abbott (disambiguation), several people
* Steve Adams (disambiguation), several people
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(born 1982), Australian pole vaulter
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Thomas Hooker (1586–1647), Puritan leader
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T J Hooker fictional character portrayed by
William Shatner
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William Hooker (musician) (born 1946), American jazz drummer and composer
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William Hooker (botanical illustrator) (1779–1832), known for
Hooker's Green
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William Jackson Hooker
Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 178512 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he ...
(1785–1865), English botanist, father of Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Worthington Hooker
Worthington Hooker (March 3, 1806 – November 6, 1867) was an American physician, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Worthington Hooker School in New Haven, Connecticut is named after him.
He graduated Yale University in 1825 and Harvard Unive ...
(1806–1867), American physician
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Hooker (Kent cricketer)
Hooker may refer to:
People
* Hooker (surname)
Places Antarctica
* Mount Hooker (Antarctica)
* Cape Hooker (Antarctica)
* Cape Hooker (South Shetland Islands)
New Zealand
* Hooker River
* Hooker Valley Track
* Mount Hooker (New Zealand) in t ...
, 18th century English cricketer
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