William Cooke or Bill Cooke may refer to:

Sports

Harry Cooke William Henry Cooke (7 March 1919 – 1992) was an English professional footballer, best known as a player for Luton Town. Career Cooke began his career with Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, but failed to play a league game for the south co ...

(born William Henry Cooke, 1919–1992), English footballer * William Cooke (cricketer) (1868–1954), New Zealand cricketer * William Cooke (footballer) (1915–?), English footballer * Bill Cooke (defensive end) (born 1951), American football defensive end * Bill Cooke (footballer) (1888–1950), Australian rules footballer

Politicians

* William Cooke (died 1558), MP for New Woodstock and Portsmouth * William Cooke (died 1589), MP for Stamford and Grantham * Sir

William Cooke (of Highnam) Sir William Cooke (14 February 1572 – 2 March 1619) of Highnam Court in Gloucestershire, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1614. Origins He was the son of William Cook ...

(1572–1619), English Member of Parliament * William Cooke (died 1703) (1620–1703), MP for Gloucester * William Cooke (1682–1709), MP for Gloucester * William Mordecai Cooke Sr. (1823–1863), Confederate politician *William Cooke, MP for

Lewes Lewes () is the county town of East Sussex, England. It is the police and judicial centre for all of Sussex and is home to Sussex Police, East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service, Lewes Crown Court and HMP Lewes. The civil parish is the centre of ...

* William Wilcox Cooke (died 1816), Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court

Others

William Fothergill Cooke Sir William Fothergill Cooke (4 May 1806 – 25 June 1879) was an English inventor. He was, with Charles Wheatstone, the co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, which was patented in May 1837. Together with John Ricardo he fo ...

(1806–1879), English inventor *

William Ernest Cooke William Ernest Cooke (25 July 1863 – 7 November 1947), generally referred to as W. Ernest Cooke or informally Ernest Cooke, was an Australian astronomer, credited with a number of important scientific breakthroughs and improved methodologies i ...

(1863–1947), Australian astronomer * William Cooke (Methodist) (1806–1884),

Methodist New Connexion The Methodist New Connexion, also known as Kilhamite Methodism, was a Protestant nonconformist church. It was formed in 1797 by secession from the Wesleyan Methodists, and merged in 1907 with the Bible Christian Church and the United Methodist F ...

William Cooke (Provost of King's College) William Cooke (1711–1797) was an English cleric and academic, Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1772 and Dean of Ely from 1780. Life He was born in St. James's, Westminster, 15 October 1711. He was sent to Harrow School in 1718, and ...

(1711–1797), academic and Church of England priest *

William Cooke (priest, born 1821) William Cooke (1821 – 23 November 1894), widely known as Canon Cooke, was a Church of England clergyman, hymn-writer, and translator. As an author he sometimes signed his work A. C. C., which stood for "a canon of Chester".Theodore Brown Hewitt ...

(1821–1894), Church of England priest and hymn-writer *

William Bernard Cooke William Bernard Cooke (1778 – 2 August 1855), was an English line engraver. Life and work Cooke was born in London in 1778. He was the elder brother of George Cooke (1781–1834), and became a pupil of William Angus (1752–1821), the eng ...

(1778–1855), English line engraver *

William Bridge Cooke William Bridge Cooke (July 16, 1908 – December 30, 1991) was an American mycologist. He specialized in fungal ecology and taxonomy, with on emphasis on the Polyporaceae. He was the author of at least 192 publications and five books. Cooke also pub ...

(1908–1991), American mycologist *

William Gordon Cooke William Gordon Cooke (March 26, 1803 – December 24, 1847) was a New Orleans druggist from Virginia, who volunteered for service in the Texas Revolution; fighting at Béxar and San Jacinto, he rose to the rank of major in the Texian Army. In th ...

(1803–1847), New Orleans druggist and major in the Texian Army * Andrew Crooke and William Cooke, English publishers (William Cooke died c. 1641) * Sir William Bryan Cooke, 8th Baronet (1782–1851), of the

Cooke baronets There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Cooke, two in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Ireland. One creation is extant as of 2013. The Cooke Baronetcy, of Wheatley Hall in the County of York ...

* Sir William Ridley Charles Cooke, 9th Baronet (1827–1894), of the

* Sir William Henry Charles Wemyss Cooke, 10th Baronet (1872–1964), of the

William W. Cooke William Winer Cooke (May 29, 1846 – June 25, 1876) was a military officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Black Hills War. He was the adjutant for George Armstrong Custer and was killed during the Battle of the ...

(1846–1876), US officer killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn *

William Wilson Cooke William Wilson Cooke (1871–1949) was an American architect. He worked in the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury and was the first African American man to be employed there. Cooke was the first ...

(1871–1949), American architect * 3894 Williamcooke, asteroid named for William Ernest Cooke

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