Cook (surname)
Cook is an occupational surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname include:
A
- Aaron Cook, multiple people
- Adam Cook, multiple people
- A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
- A. J. Cook , Welsh trade unionist
- Alan Cook or Allan, multiple people
- Alastair Cook, English cricketer
- Albert Cook, multiple people
- Alex Cook, multiple people
- Alfred M. Cook, American politician
- Ali Cook, English magician and actor
- Alice Cook, multiple people
- Alistair Cook, multiple people
- Allison Cook, multiple people
- Alyssa-Jane Cook, Australian actress, singer and television presenter
- Amanda Cook , Canadian singer
- Amy Cook, American musician and singer-songwriter
- Anne Cook, or Ann, multiple people
- Annelies Cook, American biathlete
- Anthony Cook, multiple people
- Arthur Cook multiple people
- Austin Cook, American golfer
B
- Barbara Cook, singer, actress
- Barrie Cook, English artist
- Barry Cook, American film director
- Beano Cook, American sportscaster
- Bekki Cook, American politician
- Benjamin Cook, multiple people
- Bert Cook, multiple people
- Beryl Cook, English painter
- Betsy Cook, American musician
- Bill Cook or Billy Cook see William Cook
- Blaine Cook, American singer
- Bob Cook, Canadian ice hockey player
- Boo Cook, British comic artist
- Brendon Cook, Australian racing driver
- Brian Cook, multiple people
- Bruce Cook, American writer
- Bun Cook, Canadian professional ice hockey forward
- Byron Cook, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives
C
- Carole Cook, American actress
- Catherine Cook, multiple people
- Charlie Cook, American political analyst
- Chris Cook, multiple people
- Christine Cook, English field hockey player
- Clara Cook, American baseball player
- Clay Cook, songwriter, producer and musician
D
- Daequan Cook American basketball player from Dayton, Ohio, and currently with NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder
- Dale Cook, American kickboxer
- Dalvin Cook, American football player
- Daniel Cook, multiple people
- Damien Cook, Australian Rugby League player
- Dane Cook, American comedian
- David Cook, multiple people
- Dean Cook, British actor
- Dennis Cook, American former professional baseball pitcher
- Dianne Cook, Australian basketball player
- Dick Cook, Chairman of Disney Studios
- Doc Cook, jazz bandleader
- Don Cook, American record producer and songwriter, mainly in the field of country music
- Don Cook, organ area coordinator and the university carillonneur at Brigham Young University
- Donna Cook, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Doris Cook, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Dorothy Cook, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
E
- Edith Agnes Cook, first female student at Adelaide University, principal of the Advanced School for Girls
- Eli Cook, American politician
- Elizabeth Cook, multiple people
- Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor
- Everett Richard Cook, American World War I flying ace
F
- Fielder Cook, American television and film director, producer and writer
- Francis Cook, multiple people
- Frank Cook, multiple people
- Fred Cook, multiple people
- Frederick Cook, multiple people
G
- Garry Cook, former British athlete
- Garry Cook, British football executive, currently with Manchester City
- George Cook, multiple people
- Geoff Cook, a former England cricketer
- Glen Cook, author
- Glen Cook
- Greg Cook, multiple people
H
- Harry Cook, English martial arts historian and author
- Harry Cook, multiple people
- Henry Cook, multiple people
- Herman Cook, known as Junior Cook, hard bop tenor saxophone player
- Hugh Cook , Canadian writer
- Hugh Cook , cult author
- Hume Cook, James Hume Cook, Australian politician
I
- Ian Cook, multiple people
- Ira Cook, American surveyor, mayor, banker, tax collector, city council member, investor and entrepreneur
J
- James Cook, British explorer, navigator, and map maker
- James Cook, Australian football player
- James Cook, NFL player
- James M. Cook, American businessman and politician
- James William Cook, Canadian businessman and political figure
- James Cook, British boxer
- James Cook, fictional character from the British teen drama, Skins
- James Cook, senior vice president of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund
- James Cook, a member of Delphic
- Jamie Cook, guitarist with British band, The Arctic Monkeys
- Jamie Cook
- Jane Constance Cook , Canadian first nations leader and activist
- Jesse Cook, Canadian guitarist
- Jeffrey Cook, multiple people
- Jill Cook, British curator
- Jim Cook, NASCAR driver
- Jim Cook Jr., US Army soldier
- Jimmy Cook, South African cricketer
- Joan Cook, Canadian Senator for Newfoundland and Labrador
- Joan Riddell Cook, founding director of JAWS
- John Cook, multiple people
- Johnny Cook, American football player
- Jonathan Cook, British writer journalist based in Israel
- Jordan Cook, English footballer
- Joseph Cook, multiple people
- Julian Cook, US Army officer
- Julian Abele Cook Jr., US District Court judge
- Junior Cook, Herman Cook, hard bop tenor saxophone player
- Justin Cook, American voice actor
K
- Kathy Smallwood-Cook, British sprint athlete
- Kenneth Cook, Australian journalist and novelist
- Kristy Lee Cook, American singer
L
- Lawrence Cook, multiple people
- Lee Cook, English footballer
- Lemuel Cook, American Revolutionary War veteran
- Leonard Cook, Australian boxer at the 1936 Olympics
- Lester Cook, American tennis player
- Lewis H. Cook, American politician
- Louise Cook, British rally driver
M
- Mariana Cook, American photographer
- Marlow Cook, Republican US Senator from Kentucky
- Marv Cook, American football player
- Matthew Cook, multiple people
- Merrill Cook, Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Utah
- Michael Cook, multiple people
- Mitch Cook, English football player
- Moxon Cook, Australian sports journalist
- Murray Cook, Australian musician
- Myke Cook, Australian football player
N
- Natalie Cook, Australian beach volleyball player
- Nathaniel Cook, designer of the standard set of chess figures
- Nicholas Cook, musicologist
- Nick Cook, multiple people
- Nicky Cook, English boxer
- Norman Cook, British musician
O
- Octavia Cook, New Zealand jeweller
- Olive Cook, British writer and artist
- Oliver Cook, British rower
- Omar Cook, American-born, naturalized Montenegrin professional basketball player
- Omar Cook , American football defensive back
- Orator F. Cook, American botanist, entomologist, and agronomist
- Orchard Cook, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
- Orval R. Cook, United States Air Force four-star general
- Óscar Alvarado Cook, Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party
- Oscar Cook, British author of novels, non-fiction works and short stories with a supernatural theme
- Otis Cook, American painter born in New Bedford, Massachusetts
P
- Pam Cook, English film theorist
- Pamela Cook, American mathematician
- Paul Cook multiple people
- Paul Cook drummer in English Punk band The Sex Pistols
- Paula Cook, British auto racing driver
- Penny Cook, Australian actress
- Perry R. Cook, computer music researcher and professor at Princeton
- Peter Cook, multiple people
Q
- Quentin L. Cook, American lawyer, business executive, and religious leader in the LDS Church
- Quinn Cook, American basketball player
R
- Rachael Leigh Cook, actress
- Randall William Cook, American visual effects artist
- Richard Cook multiple people
- Rick Cook, American author
- Rick Cook , New York City architect
- Robin Cook, multiple people
- Roderick Cook, English playwright, writer, director, and actor
- Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., American businessman
- Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American politician and activist
- Roger Cook, multiple people
- Ron Cook, English actor
- Ryan Cook, multiple people
S
- Samuel Cook, multiple people
- Scott Cook, American entrepreneur
- Sharon Anne Cook, Canadian historian
- Sherburne F. Cook, physiologist and pioneer in population studies
- Stephen Cook
- Steve Cook, multiple people
- Stu Cook, bassist with U.S rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival
T
- Ted Cook, New Zealand footballer
- Ted Cook , American football player
- Terry Cook, multiple people
- Theodore Andrea Cook, British writer and art critic
- Thomas Cook, entrepreneur
- T. S. Cook, American screenwriter and producer
- Timothy D. Cook, CEO of Apple, Inc.
- Tommy Cook , American producer, screenwriter, and actor
- Troy Cook, Australian footballer
- Tyler Cook, American basketball player
U
V
- Vernon Cook, former member of the Ohio House of Representatives
- Victor Cook is an American television director, writer, and producer
- Victoria Cook, former World Champion archer who represented the United States
- Virgil Young Cook, American Confederate veteran and planter
- Vivian Cook , Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK
- Vivian E. Cook, represents District 32 in the New York State Assembly
W
- Wesley Cook, later known as Mumia Abu-Jamal, American convicted of the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer
- Will Marion Cook, American composer and violinist
- William Cook, multiple people
- Willie Cook, American jazz trumpeter
- Whitfield Cook, American writer
- W. T. Cook, American college sports coach
X
Y
- Yassar Cook, South African first class cricketer
- Yvette Cook, known as "Lady E", member of Newcleus, American electro and old school hip hop group
Z
- Zachary Cook, American politician, Republican member of the New Mexico House of Representatives
- Zadock Cook, United States Representative from Georgia