Cooke 1870906 217557056 2008-06-06T16:01:14Z Kraxler 2101300 no red links here please '''Cooke''' is the [[surname]] of several notable people: *[[Alan Cooke]], English table tennis player, 2006 world champion 40+ at the World Veterans Table Tennis Championships in Bremen, Germany *[[Alexander Cooke]] (died 1614), English actor *[[Alfred Tyrone Cooke]], hero of the Indo-Pakistani wars *[[Alistair Cooke]] KBE (1908-2004), journalist and broadcaster *[[Anna Rice Cooke]] (1853-1934), patron of the arts and founder of the Honolulu Academy of Arts *[[Anthony Cooke]] (1505-1576), British scholar *[[Baden Cooke]] (1978-), Australian cyclist *[[Barrie Cooke]] (1931-), Irish painter *[[Bates Cooke]], US Representative 1831-1833, and NY State Comptroller 1839-1841 *[[Benjamin Cooke]] (1734-1793), English musician *[[C. R. Cooke]] (1901-1996), English early Himalayan mountaineer *[[Charles L. Cooke]] (1891-1958), jazz bandleader better known as Doc Cook *[[Mordecai Cubitt Cooke]] (1825-1914), British botanist *[[Dave Cooke]], Canadian politician *[[Deryck Cooke]] (1919-1975), British musicologist *[[Edward William Cooke]] (1811-1880), English maritime artist *[[Eric Edgar Cooke]], murderer *[[Francis Cooke]], Mayflower passenger *[[Francis Judd Cooke]], American composer *[[Hope Cooke]], Queen of Sikkim *[[Janet Cooke]] (1954-), American journalist, won a Pulitzer price for a fabricated story *[[Jennifer Cooke]], actress *[[John Cooke (prosecutor)|John Cooke]], prosecutor in the 1649 trial of Charles I *[[John Cooke (entrepreneur)|John Cooke]] (1824–1882), American industrialist, founder of Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works **See also [[John Cooke]] *[[John Esten Cooke]] (1830-1886), Confederate Army officer and novelist *[[Keith Cooke]], actor *[[L. J. Cooke]], first men's basketball coach at the University of Minnesota *[[Martin Cooke (Opera Singer)|Martin Cooke]], Opera singer *[[Martin Cooke (Mayor)|Martin Cooke]], 25th mayor of Hoboken, NJ *[[Matt Cooke]], hockey player *[[Philip St. George Cooke]], 19th century US Cavalry officer *[[Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon|Robin Cooke]], Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand judge, also appointed to the Privy Council and House of Lords *[[Sam Cooke]] (1931-1964), American singer/songwriter *[[Terence Cardinal Cooke]] (1921-1984), Archbishop of New York *[[William Fothergill Cooke]] (1806-1879), co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph Places named '''Cooke''' include: *[[Cooke County, Texas]] *[[Cooke Township, Pennsylvania]], pop. 117 '''Cooke''' may also refer to: *[[Cooke Optics]], a current lens manufacturer (previously Taylor, Taylor and Hobson) *[[Cooke triplet]], a photographic lens design by the above *[[Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works]], steam railroad locomotive manufacturer, founded in 1852 ==See also== * [http://www.familytreedna.com/public/cook/ Cooke Surname DNA Project] * [[Cook (surname)]] {{disambig}} [[Category:english surnames]] [[bg:Кук]] [[de:Cooke]] [[fr:Cooke]] [[it:Cooke]] [[pl:Cooke]] [[ru:Кук]]