John Cook

John Cook may refer to:

Entertainment

  • John Cook (filmmaker) (1935–2001), Austrian filmmaker
  • John Cook (musician) (1918–1984), English organist
  • John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994), English artist

Military

  • John Pope Cook (1825–1910), American Civil War general
  • John Cook (VC) (1843–1879), British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • John Cook (Medal of Honor, 1847) (1847–1915), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
  • John H. Cook (1840–1916), English soldier who fought in the American Civil War

Politics

Canada

  • John Cook (Upper Canada politician) (1791–1877)
  • John Henry Cook (1902–1980), provincial politician in Ontario, Canada

Honduras

U.K.

  • John Coke (fl. 1390) or John Cook, in 1390, Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro
  • John Cook (fl. 1393), in 1393, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme
  • John Cook (fl.1542), MP for Orford
  • John Cook (regicide) (1608–1660), English Solicitor General executed for regicide

U.S.

  • John Cook (governor) (1730–1789), American farmer and governor of Delaware
  • John Parsons Cook (1817–1872), U.S. Representative from Iowa
  • John C. Cook (1846–1920), U.S. representative and district judge from Iowa
  • John Dillard Cook (1792–1852), justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri
  • John Cook (Texas politician) (born 1946), mayor of El Paso, Texas
  • John R. Cook, member of the Texas House of Representatives

Religion

  • John Cook (Canadian minister) (1805–1892), Canadian clergyman and educator
  • John Cook (professor, born 1739) (1739–1815), Scottish professor and a minister of the Church of Scotland
  • John Cook (moderator 1816) (1770–1824), moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1816–1817
  • John Cook (moderator 1859) (1807–1869), moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1859
  • John Cook (Haddington) (1807–1874), moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1866–1867

Science

  • John Howard Cook (1872–1946), British physician, missionary, lecturer
  • John Manuel Cook (1910–1994), British archaeologist
  • John Call Cook (1918–2012), American geophysicist
  • John Cook (Australian author), cognitive scientist and creator of SkepticalScience.com

Sports

  • John Cook (coach) (born 1956), head coach of the women's volleyball team at the University of Nebraska
  • John Cook (golfer) (born 1957), American professional golfer
  • John Cook (Minnesota golfer), American golfer in the 1960s and 1970s, see Minnesota State Open
  • John Cook (speedway rider) (born 1958), professional motorcycle speedway rider, world finalist
  • John Cook (cricketer) (1946–2007), English cricketer
  • John Cook (rugby league) (born 1941), Australian rugby league player

Other

  • John Cook (pirate) (died 1684), English buccaneer and pirate
  • John Cook (reporter), editor-in-chief of The Intercept
  • John Douglas Cook (1808–1868), Scottish journalist, founding editor of the Saturday Review
  • John Edwin Cook (died 1859) participated in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
  • John F. Cook Sr. (1810–1855), American pastor and educator
  • John F. Cook Jr. (1833–1910), American educator and civil rights activist
  • John Williston Cook (1844–1922), American educator

See also

  • Cook (surname)
  • John Coke (disambiguation) (pronounced Cook)
  • John Cooke (disambiguation)
  • Jonathan Cook (born 1965), British journalist based in Israel
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