John Cooke

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John Cooke may refer to:

• John Cooke (c. 1607–1695), teenage passenger on the Mayflower, son of Francis Cooke
• John Cooke (composer), 15th–century composer.
• John Cooke (prosecutor), the prosecutor in the 1649 trial of Charles I of England.
• John Cooke (pirate) (died 1683), English pirate.
• John Cooke (MP) (1649–1726), Member of Parliament for Midhurst 1681–1685 and Arundel 1694–1695 and 1698–1702.
• John Cooke (Naval officer) (1763–1805), a British captain killed at the Battle of Trafalgar.
• Sir John Cooke (1666–1710), civil lawyer and Dean of Arches.
• John Cooke (academic), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.
• John Cooke (entrepreneur) (1824–1882), the American locomotive industrialist, founder of Cooke Locomotive Works.
• John Cooke, 19th century English painter of seascapes and garden designer at Biddulph Grange.
• John Esten Cooke (1830–1886), Confederate Army officer and novelist.
• John Cooke (rower) (born 1937), an American rower at the 1956 Olympics.
• John D. Cooke (born 1944), Irish judge at the European Court of First Instance.

See also: John Cook