Duke (disambiguation)

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A Duke or Grand Duke is a title of nobility for aristocrats of very high rank.

Duke may also refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Business and technology 3.1 Ships and airplanes 4 Sport 5 Media 5.1 Music 5.2 Fictional characters

[edit] Places

• Duke University in Durham, North Carolina
• Duke Island, off the coast of Alaska
• Duta-Ulu Klang Expressway or DUKE, an expressway in Klang Valley, Malaysia

[edit] People

As a surname:

• See Duke (surname)

As a nickname, Duke may refer to:

• John Wayne, American actor
• Duke Ellington, jazz musician
• Duke Snider, former center fielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers
• Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian athlete
• Duke Cunningham, an American fighter pilot and disgraced politician
• The Thin White Duke, a persona of musician David Bowie
• Raoul Duke, alter-ego to Hunter S. Thompson, used as both a character and a pen name
• George Deukmejian, former Governor of California
• David Dickinson, British antiques expert, television presenter
• Michael Dukakis, former Governor of Massachusetts and former presidential candidate
• Mark Viduka, Australian soccer player
• Rich Ward, guitarist of metal band Fozzy

[edit] Business and technology

• Duke Energy, a producer of gas and electric services in the United States
• Duke, the mascot of the Java programming language

[edit] Ships and airplanes

• Type 23 frigate
• Iron Duke class battleship
• HMS Iron Duke
• The Beechcraft Duke, a twin-engined airplane

[edit] Sport

• Duke Blue Devils, the athletics program of Duke University
• "The Duke," the nickname of the National Football League's game ball, named after New York Giants founder Wellington Mara

The Dukes may refer to a sports team from:

• Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia

[edit] Media

• The Duke (TV series), 1954
• The Duke (TV miniseries), 1979
• The Dukes of Hazzard, an early 1980s television series

• The Dukes, an animated spinoff of the Dukes of Hazzard

• Duke Nukem (game), a popular line of video games

[edit] Music

• Duke (album), by Genesis, 1980
• MC Duke, a British rapper
• Duke Records, a Memphis, Tennessee record label active from 1952 to 1973
• Duke Street Records, a Canadian independent record label

[edit] Fictional characters

• Duke (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the TV series, toy line and comic book series
• Duke the Lost Engine, fictional character from The Railway Series by Reverend W. Awdry
• Uncle Duke, a character from the Doonesbury comic strip
• Duke Nukem (character), an action hero who stars in the Duke Nukem line of video games
• Duke Devlin, known as Ryuji Otogi in the English-language manga and Japanese versions of Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Duke, a fictional character in the video game KOF: Maximum Impact
• Duke Togo is the pseudonym of adult manga character Golgo 13