H. Basil S. Cooke

Herbert Basil Sutton CookeFRSSAf (17 October 1915 – 3 May 2018) was a South African-Canadian geologist and palaeontologist, and Emeritus Professor at Dalhousie University. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he was educated at King Edward VII School before earning a B.A. (1936) and M.A. (1940) at Cambridge University, and M.Sc. (1940) and D.Sc. (1947) at the University of the Witwatersrand.

He is known for his studies of fossil pigs and other even-toed ungulates of Africa. A festschrift in honor of his life and contributions was published in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa in 2006.