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 Products 3.2 Transportation 4 Sport 5 Media 5.1 Music 5.2 Gaming 5.3 Fictional characters

[edit] Places

• Duke University, a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, USA
• 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
• Dušan Duke Fabian, Slovak author
• 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
• Nathan Ellington, English footballer
• Orlando Hernández, "El Duque" - starting pitcher for the New York Mets
• Paul LoDuca, All-Star catcher for the New York Mets
• 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 (mascot), the mascot of the Java programming language
• Duke Video, Motorsport DVD distributor based in the Isle of Mann

[edit] Products

Duke (cologne), A cologne and aftershave brand created 1934, made by Atkinsons.

[edit] Transportation

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

[edit] Sport

• The Duke (racehorse), a 19th century racing champion
• 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 Duke (film), a 1999 Disney film
• The Duke (short), a 1999 short film
• The Dukes of Hazzard, an early 1980s television series

• The Dukes of Hazzard (movie), a film adaptation of the television series
• The Dukes, an animated spinoff of the Dukes of Hazzard

[edit] Music

• The Duke, a jazz standard penned by Dave Brubeck
• Duke (album), by Genesis, March 1980
• Duchess (song), a hit track on the above album
• 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
• Steve Duke, saxophonist

[edit] Gaming

• Duke Nukem (game), a popular line of video games
• Duke Nukem (character), an action hero who stars in the Duke Nukem line of video games
• Duke, a fictional character in the video game KOF: Maximum Impact
• Edmund Duke, a fictional character in the StarCraft series.
• Dynamite Duke, An arcade shooter.
• The Duke, the original Xbox controller

[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 Evers, a fictional character from the Rocky movie series.
• Duke Nukem (Captain Planet) villain from Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
• Ryuji Otogi, (Duke Devlin), a character in the English-language manga and Japanese versions of Yu-Gi-Oh!.
• Duke Togo, the pseudonym of adult manga character Golgo 13.
• Duke of New York ('The Duke, A Number One') fictional gang leader played by Isaac Hayes, in John Carpenter's Escape from New York
• Duke, the dog from the film Barnyard and the series Back at the Barnyard