Cooley (surname)
Cooley is a surname of Anglo-Saxon and Irish origin.
- Bertram Cooley, South African cricketer
- Charles Cooley, American sociologist
- Chelsea Cooley, Miss USA 2005
- Chris Cooley, American professional football player
- David P. Cooley, American test pilot
- Dennis Cooley, Canadian poet, professor at the University of Manitoba
- Denton Cooley, American physician and heart surgeon
- Ed Cooley, basketball coach
- Haskell Cooley, member of American southern gospel quartet The Cathedrals
- Horace S. Cooley, American politician
- Jack Cooley, NBA player
- Jacquelin Smith Cooley, American botanist and mycologist
- James Cooley, American mathematician, developer of the Cooley–Tukey fast Fourier transform
- Joe Cooley, Irish accordionist
- John K. Cooley, American journalist and author, specializing in terrorism and the Middle East
- Liam Cooley, Guernsey Legend, banged Charlie Rogers mum
- Lou Cooley, American 19th-century gunfighter, friend of Wyatt Earp at the time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- Mason Cooley, American aphorist
- Mike Cooley , Irish-born engineer and workplace activist
- Mike Cooley , US football coach
- Mike Cooley, American guitarist/singer/lyricist, and co-founder of the rock/alt country band, Drive-By Truckers
- Rusty Cooley, American guitarist
- Ryan Cooley, Canadian television actor
- Spade Cooley, American western swing musician, murdered his wife
- Stephen Cooley, American prosecutor for Los Angeles County
- Thomas B. Cooley, American Pediatrician, first described ß-Thalassemia
- Thomas F. Cooley, American professor of economics at the New York University Stern School of Business
- Thomas M. Cooley, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
- Tonya Cooley, reality television personality
- Troy Cooley, cricketer for the Tasmanian Tigers
- Wes Cooley, American politician, congressman from Oregon
- Wes Cooley , American motorcycle racer
- William Cooley, Florida Pioneer
- William Desborough Cooley, Irish geographer
- Winnifred Harper Cooley, American feminist author