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• A. J. Cook (actress)
  A. J. Cook (actress)
  
  Andrea Joy Cook is a Canadian actor more commonly known as A. J. Cook. She has appeared in several Hollywood films and television shows including The Virgin Suicides , Out Cold , Final Destination 2....
   (born 1978), actress
• A. J. Cook (trade unionist)
  A. J. Cook (trade unionist)
  
  Arthur James Cook , known as A. J. Cook, was a United Kingdom coal miner and trade union leader. He is remembered as one of the United Kingdom's best known miners? leaders and a key component of the National Minority Movement around the General Strike of 1926....
   (1883 - 1931), Welsh trade unionist
• Alastair Cook
  Alastair Cook
  
  Alastair Nathan Cook is an English cricketer, a left-handed batsman, who currently plays county cricket for Essex County Cricket Club, and Test cricket and limited overs cricket for England cricket team....
   (born 1984), English cricket player
• Alice Cook
  Alice Cook
  
  Alice Hanson Cook was an activist and professor at Cornell University in the United States. At Cornell, the Cornell West Campus residential college was named in her honor....
   (1903–1998), professor and activist
• Ann Turner Cook
  Ann Turner Cook
  
  Ann Turner Cook is a Mystery fiction author and former high school English language English literature and writer teacher. She was the model for the Gerber Products Company logo on baby food jars of the Gerber Products Company brand....
   (born 1926), mystery author and model for the Gerber baby logo
• Arthur Bernard Cook
  Arthur Bernard Cook
  
  Arthur Bernard Cook was a British classical scholar, known for work in archaeology and the history of religions. He is best known for his three-part work Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion....
   (1868–1952), British classical scholar
• Barbara Cook
  Barbara Cook
  
  Barbara Cook is a Tony Award winning United States singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway theatre musical theatre Candide and The Music Man among others....
   (born 1927), singer, actress
• Beryl Cook
  Beryl Cook
  
  Beryl Cook, Officer of the Order of the British Empire was an English people artist best known for comical paintings of people. She had no formal training and did not take up painting until middle age....
   (born 1926), English painter
• Christine Cook
  Christine Cook
  
  Christine Cook is a retired field hockey defender from England. She represented Hightown on club level, and competed for Great Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics, finishing in fourth place....
   (born 1970), English field hockey player
• Dane Cook
  Dane Cook
  
  Dane Jeffrey Cook is an American stand-up comedian and film actor. He released three comedy albums: Harmful If Swallowed, Retaliation , and Rough Around The Edges: Live From Madison Square Garden....
   (born 1972), American comedian
• David Cook (game designer)
  David Cook (game designer)
  
  David "Zeb" Cook is an United States game designer best known for his work at TSR, Inc., where he was employed for over fifteen years. He is particularly known for being the lead designer on the 2nd edition of Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and the Planescape campaign setting....
  , American game designer
• David Cook (singer)
  David Cook (singer)
  
  David Roland Cook is an American rock music singer-songwriter, who rose to fame after winning the American Idol of the reality television show American Idol....
  , American singer (born 1982)
• Frank Cook
  Frank Cook
  
  Francis Cook, known as Frank Cook, United Kingdom politician. He is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Stockton North .Frank Cook was born in Hartlepool and was educated at the Corby School in Sunderland, the De la Salle College, Manchester, and the University of Leeds....
   (born 1935), leftist British politician
• Frederick Cook
  Frederick Cook
  
  Frederick Albert Cook was an United States explorer and medical doctor, noted for his claim of having reached the North Pole in April, 1908, a year before Robert Peary claimed to....
   (1865–1940), American explorer and physician
• George Hammell Cook (1818–1889), American geologist at Rutgers
• Glen Cook
  Glen Cook
  
  Glen Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his fantasy series, The Black Company. Cook currently resides in St....
   (born 1944), author
• Harry Cook
  Harry Cook
  
  Henry "Harry" Wilson Cook is a Geordie martial artist, teacher and author....
   (born 1949), English martial arts historian and author
• Hugh Cook (Canadian novelist) (born 1942), Canadian writer
• Hugh Cook (science fiction author)
  Hugh Cook (science fiction author)
  
  Hugh Cook was a Cult following author whose works blend fantasy and science fiction. He is best-known for his epic series The Chronicles of an Age of Darkness....
   (born 1956) , cult author
• James Cook
  James Cook
  
  Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
   (1728–1779), (Captain) British explorer
• Joseph Cook
  Joseph Cook
  
  Sir Joseph Cook, Order of St Michael and St George was an Australian politician and sixth Prime Minister of Australia....
   (1860–1947), sixth Prime Minister of Australia
• Kenneth Cook
  Kenneth Cook
  
  Kenneth Cook was an Australian journalist, film director, scriptwriter and novelist best known for his works Wake in Fright and the Killer Koala trilogy....
   (1929–1987), Australian journalist and novelist
• Kristy Lee Cook
  Kristy Lee Cook
  
  Kristy Lee Cook is an American country music artist. She released an album, Devoted, under the name Kristy Lee in 2005. In addition, she was also the seventh place finalist on the American Idol of the television series American Idol....
   (born 1984), American singer
• Lawrence Cook
  Lawrence Cook
  
  Lawrence Cook may refer to:* Lawrence Cook , Lancashire medium-pace bowler* J. Lawrence Cook , piano roll artist* Lawrence Cook , one of the Carthusian Martyrs...
   is the name of several people
• Lemuel Cook
  Lemuel Cook
  
  Lemuel Cook was one of the last verifiable surviving veterans of the American Revolutionary War. He was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut....
   (1759–1866), American Revolutionary War veteran
• Matthew Cook
  Matthew Cook
  
  Matthew Cook is a mathematician and computer scientist who proved Stephen Wolfram's conjecture that the Rule 110 cellular automaton is Turing-complete....
   (born 1970), ?American mathematician
• Michael Cook
  Michael Cook
  
  Michael Cook was a Canadian playwrightBorn in Fulham, London, England, Cook settled in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, in 1965 after serving several years in the British Army, mostly in Asia....
   (1933–1994), Canadian playwright
• Michael Cook (historian)
  Michael Cook (historian)
  
  Michael Allan Cook is an English people-Scottish people historian and scholar of Islamic history. He has co-authored a book with Patricia Crone, notably Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World....
  
• Natalie Cook
  Natalie Cook
  
  Natalie Louise Cook Order of Australia is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Summer Olympics gold medallist.Cook was born in Townsville, Queensland....
   (born 1975), Australian beach volleyball player
• Nathaniel Cook
  Nathaniel Cook
  
  Nathaniel Cook was the designer of a set of chess figures, which is now the standard set.He registered his design at the United Kingdom Patent Office on March 1, 1849 under the Ornamental Designs Act of 1842....
   (19th century), designer of the standard set of chess figures
• Nicholas Cook
  Nicholas Cook
  
  Nicholas Cook is a musicologist and writer. He has written and co-authored several books on music. He is currently a Professorial Research Fellow in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London....
   (born 1950), musicologist
• Orator F. Cook
  Orator F. Cook
  
  Orator Fuller Cook was an American Botany, Entomology, and agronomist. Cook, born in Clyde, New York in 1867, graduated from Syracuse University in 1890....
   (born 1867), American botanist
• Paul Cook
  Paul Cook
  
  Paul Cook, born on 20 July 1956, is an England drummer and member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols....
   (born 1956), drummer for the Sex Pistols
• Perry R. Cook
  Perry R. Cook
  
  Perry R. Cook is an American computer music researcher and professor of computer science and music at Princeton University. He is also the head of the Princeton Sound Lab....
   (born 1955), computer music researcher and professor at Princeton
• Peter Cook (architect)
  Peter Cook (architect)
  
  Sir Peter Cook, Royal Institute of British Architects is a notable England architect, teacher and writer about architecture.From 1953 to 1958, he studied architecture at Bournemouth College of Art, and then moved to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1960....
   (born 1936), British architect
• Peter Cook
  Peter Cook
  
  Peter Edward Cook was an English people satirist, writer and comedian. He is widely regarded as the leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s....
   (1937–1995), comedian
• Rachael Leigh Cook
  Rachael Leigh Cook
  
  Rachael Leigh Cook is an American actress. She came to fame after her role in the 1999 Teen film romantic comedy She's All That, and has since appeared mostly in lower-profile films....
   (born 1979), actress
• Rick Cook
  Rick Cook
  
  Rick Cook is a light fantasy author from the United States, best known for his Wizardry series of books. His writing includes many computer inside jokes, and is better enjoyed by those who have a background in computers....
   (born 1944), author
• Robin Cook
  Robin Cook
  
  Robert Finlayson Cook , better known as Robin Cook, was a politician in the British Labour Party . He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001....
  , British politician (1946–2005)
• Robin Cook (novelist)
  Robin Cook (novelist)
  
  Dr. Robin Cook is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health.He is best known for combining medical writing with the Thriller genre....
   (born 1940), American doctor turned novelist
• Stephen Cook
  Stephen Cook
  
  Stephen Arthur Cook is a noted computer science.Cook formalised the notion of NP-completeness in a famous 1971 paper "The Complexity of Theorem Proving Procedures", which also contained Cook's theorem, a proof that the boolean satisfiability problem is NP-complete....
   (born 1939), Canadian computer scientist
• Theodore Andrea Cook (1867–1928), British writer and art critic
• Thomas Cook
  Thomas Cook
  
  Thomas Cook of Melbourne, Derbyshire, founded the travel agency that is now Thomas Cook Group. He was brought up as a strict Baptist and joined his local Temperance movement....
   (1808–1892), entrepreneur
• William Edwards Cook
  William Edwards Cook
  
  William Edwards Cook was an United States-born expatriate artist, architectural patron, and long-time friend of American writer Gertrude Stein....
   (1881–1959), painter
• William Douglas Cook
  William Douglas Cook
  
  William Douglas Cook was the founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, now the national arboretum of New Zealand, and one of the founders of Pukeiti, a rhododendron garden, close to New Plymouth....
   (1884–1967), founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, New Zealand

See also

• Cooke
  Cooke
  
  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...
  

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