Hooks
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Hooks may refer to:

Surnames
  • Bell Hooks
    Bell hooks
    Gloria Jean Watkins , better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist....

    , American author, feminist, and social activist
  • Benjamin Hooks
    Benjamin Hooks
    Benjamin Lawson Hooks was an American civil rights leader. A Baptist minister and practicing attorney, he served as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1977 to 1992, and throughout his career was a vocal campaigner for civil rights in the...

    , American civil rights leader
  • Brian Hooks
    Brian Hooks
    Brian Hooks is an actor, producer and director. He is perhaps best known for his role as Nick Delaney on the UPN television sitcom Eve.-Movie career:...

    , American actor, writer, and director
  • Charles Hooks
    Charles Hooks
    Charles Hooks was a United States Representative from North Carolina; born in Bertie County, North Carolina, February 20, 1768; when he was two years old his parents moved to Duplin County, North Carolina and settled on a plantation near Kenansville; became a planter; member of the State house of...

      (1768 - 1843) was a United States Representative from North Carolina
  • George Hooks
    George Hooks
    George Hooks is a Democratic member of the Georgia State Senate, representing the 14th District since 1991. Previously he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1980 through 1990.-Background:...

    , Democratic member of the Georgia Senate
  • Jan Hooks
    Jan Hooks
    Janet V. "Jan" Hooks is an American actress and comedienne best known for her work on NBC's Saturday Night Live , on which she appeared from 1986 to 1991...

    , American actress and comedian
  • Kevin Hooks
    Kevin Hooks
    Kevin Hooks is an American actor, and a television and film director; he is notable from his roles in Aaron Loves Angela and Sounder, but may be best known as Morris Thorpe from TV's The White Shadow....

    , American actor and film director
  • Lonna Hooks
    Lonna Hooks
    Lonna Hooks is the former Secretary of State of New Jersey. She served for four years in the Cabinet of former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman...

    , the former Secretary of State of New Jersey
  • Mitchell Hooks
    Mitchell Hooks
    Mitchell Hooks is an American artist and illustrator renowned for his artwork for paperback books and magazines ....

    , American artist and illustrator
  • Robert Hooks
    Robert Hooks
    Robert Hooks is an American actor of films, television and stage. With a career as a producer and political activist to his credit, he is most recognizable to the public for his over 100 roles in films and television, as well as his political and civil rights activities...

    , American actor
  • Valerie Brisco-Hooks
    Valerie Brisco-Hooks
    Valerie Ann Brisco-Hooks won three gold medals as an Olympic track and field athlete at the 1984 Olympics at Los Angeles, California, making her the first Olympian to win gold medals in both the 200- and 400-meter races at a single Olympics. She also won a gold medal for the 4x400 m...

    , Olympic track and field athlete


Fictional characters
  • Laverne Hooks, of Police Academy


Sports franchises
  • The Corpus Christi Hooks
    Corpus Christi Hooks
    The Corpus Christi Hooks are a minor league baseball team of the Texas League, and are the Double-A affiliate of the Houston Astros. They are located in Corpus Christi, Texas, and are named for the city's association with fishing. The team's ownership group is headed by Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan...

    , a Minor League team playing in the Texas League
    Texas League
    The Texas League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the South Central United States. It is classified a Double-A league. The league was founded in 1888 and ran through 1892...

    .


Other:
  • Hooks, Texas
    Hooks, Texas
    Hooks is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas - Texarkana, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Hooks is located at ....

  • Hooks (grappling)
    Hooks (grappling)
    Hooks is a term in Grappling Martial Arts that generally refers to the use of careful positioning of a practitioner’s feet and legs to control and manipulate the movement or position of their opponent. The most common use of hooks is in the Back Mount position to prevent escape...

     Grappling term for the use of feet and legs to control an opponent.

See also

  • Hook (disambiguation)
  • Hooke (disambiguation)
  • Hooke's law
    Hooke's law
    In mechanics, and physics, Hooke's law of elasticity is an approximation that states that the extension of a spring is in direct proportion with the load applied to it. Many materials obey this law as long as the load does not exceed the material's elastic limit. Materials for which Hooke's law...

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