Cook (surname)
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| Meaning | cook (occupational) |
| Region of origin | England |
| Language of origin | Old English |
| Related names | Koch, Cooke, Cooker, Cock, and Cocks |
| Popularity | Behind the Name |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Cook |
| Notes | Frequency Comparisons[1] |
Cook is a family name.
There are several figures named Cook:
- A. J. Cook (actress) (born 1978), actress
- A. J. Cook (trade unionist) (1883 - 1931), Welsh trade unionist
- Alastair Cook (born 1984), English cricket player
- Alice Cook (1903–1998), professor and activist
- Ann Turner Cook (born 1926), mystery author and model for the Gerber baby logo
- Arthur Bernard Cook (1868–1952), British classical scholar
- Barbara Cook (born 1927), singer, actress
- Beryl Cook (born 1926), English painter
- Christine Cook (born 1970), English field hockey player
- Dane Cook (born 1972), American comedian
- David Cook (game designer), American game designer
- David Cook (singer), American singer (born 1982)
- Eli Cook (1814–1865), American politician --- Buffalo, New York
- Elisha Cook, Jr.) (1903–1995), American actor
- Frank Cook (born 1935), leftist British politician
- Frederick Cook (1865–1940), American explorer and physician
- George Hammell Cook (1818–1889), American geologist at Rutgers
- Glen Cook (born 1944), author
- Harry Cook (born 1949), English martial arts historian and author
- Hugh Cook (Canadian novelist) (born 1942), Canadian writer
- Hugh Cook (science fiction author) (born 1956) , cult author
- James Cook (1728–1779), (Captain) British explorer
- Joseph Cook (1860–1947), sixth Prime Minister of Australia
- Justin Cook (born 1982), American voice actor
- Kathy Smallwood-Cook (born 1960), former British sprint athlete
- Kenneth Cook (1929–1987), Australian journalist and novelist
- Kristy Lee Cook (born 1984), American singer
- Lawrence Cook is the name of several people
- Lemuel Cook (1759–1866), American Revolutionary War veteran
- Matthew Cook (born 1970), American mathematician
- Michael Cook (1933–1994), Canadian playwright
- Michael Cook (historian)
- Natalie Cook (born 1975), Australian beach volleyball player
- Nathaniel Cook (19th century), designer of the standard set of chess figures
- Nicholas Cook (born 1950), musicologist
- Norman Cook (born 1963), British musician (aka Fatboy Slim)
- Orator F. Cook (born 1867), American botanist
- Paul Cook (born 1956), drummer for the Sex Pistols
- Perry R. Cook (born 1955), computer music researcher and professor at Princeton
- Peter Cook (architect) (born 1936), British architect
- Peter Cook (1937–1995), comedian
- Rachael Leigh Cook (born 1979), actress
- Rick Cook (born 1944), author
- Robin Cook, British politician (1946–2005)
- Robin Cook (novelist) (born 1940), American doctor turned novelist
- Stephen Cook (born 1939), Canadian computer scientist
- Theodore Andrea Cook (1867–1928), British writer and art critic
- Thomas Cook (1808–1892), entrepreneur
- William Edwards Cook (1881–1959), painter
- William Douglas Cook (1884–1967), founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, New Zealand
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