Cook

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Cook can refer to

• Cook the profession, see also Cooking.
• In chess, a cook is an unintended solution or sequence of moves that spoils a chess problem.
• cook, a program for directing compilation.
• Cook is the title of a 1975 album by Premiata Forneria Marconi.
• Cook Records, a record label

There are several figures named Cook:

• Cook, A. J., actress
• Cook, A. J., Welsh trade unionist
• Cook, Alice, professor and activist
• Cook, Ann Turner, mystery author and model for the Gerber baby logo
• Cook, Arthur Bernard, British classical scholar
• Cook, Barbara (born 1927), singer, actress
• Cook, Dane, American comedian
• Cook, Frank, leftist British politician
• Cook, Frederick, (1865–1940) American explorer and physician
• Cook, Glen, author
• Cook, Hugh, Canadian writer
• Cook, Hugh, cult author
• Cook, James (1728–1779), (Captain) British explorer
• Cook, Joseph, sixth Prime Minister of Australia
• Kenneth Cook (1929-1987), Australian journalist and novelist
• Cook, Lemuel (1759–1866), American Revolutionary War veteran
• Cook, Matthew, ‪American mathematician
• Cook, Nathaniel, designer of the standard set of chess figures
• Cook, Nicholas, musicologist
• Cook, Paul, Drummer for the Sex Pistols
• Cook, Perry R., computer music researcher and professor at Princeton
• Cook, Peter (born 1936), British architect
• Cook, Peter (1937–1995), comedian
• Cook, Rachael Leigh (born 1979), actress
• Cook, Rick, author
• Cook, Robin, British politician (1946–2005)
• Cook, Robin, American doctor turned novelist
• Cook, Stephen, Canadian computer scientist
• Cook, Thomas (1808–1892), entrepreneur
• Cook, William Edwards (1881–1959), painter

In addition, there are several places named Cook:

• Australia:
  • Cook, South Australia
  • Cook, Australian Capital Territory
  • Cook Island, New South Wales, a small rocky island
  • Division of Cook, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales.
  • Electoral district of Cook is an electoral district in Queensland for the Queensland Legislative Assembly
• Canada :
  • Cook's Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador
• New Zealand:
  • Aoraki/Mount Cook, New Zealand
  • Cook Islands
• United Kingdom
  • Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands, the central island of the Southern Thule group (southernmost of the South Sandwich)
• United States:
  • Cook, Florida
  • Cook, Indiana
  • Cook, Kansas
  • Cook, Minnesota
  • Cook, Ohio
  • Cook, Oklahoma
  • Cook, Oregon
  • Cook, South Carolina
  • Cook, Texas
  • Cook Corner, South Carolina
  • Cook Corner, Utah
  • Cook County, Illinois
  • Cook Corners, New York
  • Cook Heights, Georgia
  • Cook Lake, Utah, on Boulder Mountain
  • Cook Lake, Virginia, in Cameron Regional Park in Alexandria, Virginia
  • Cook Lake, Wyoming, in the Bearlodge Mountains, Black Hills National Forest
  • Cook Landing, South Carolina
  • Cook Mill, Tennessee
  • Cook Mills, Maine
  • Cook Mine, West Virginia
  • Cook Station, Missouri
  • Cook Tomb, Pennsylvania
  • Donald C. Cook Nuclear Generating Station, Michigan

[edit] See also

• Cooke
• Cookes
• Cookham, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
• Cookport, Pennsylvania, United States
• Cooks
• Cookshire, Québec, Canada
• Cooktown
• Cookville