Cooley
Cooley is a surname of Irish origin. It refers to:
Persons
- Charles Cooley (1864–1929), American sociologist
- Chelsea Cooley
- Chris Cooley (American football) (born 1982), American professional football player
- David P. Cooley (1960–2009), American test pilot
- Dennis Cooley (born 1944), Canadian poet, professor at the University of Manitoba
- Denton Cooley (born 1920), American physician and heart surgeon
- Ed Cooley (born 1969) basketball coach
- Haskell Cooley
- James Cooley (born 1926), American mathematician, developer of the Cooley–Tukey fast Fourier transform
- Joe Cooley, Irish accordionist
- John K. Cooley (contemporary), American journalist and author, specializing in terrorism and the Middle East
- Lou Cooley (dates unknown), American 19th-century gunfighter, friend of Wyatt Earp at the time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1881)
- Mason Cooley (born 1927), American aphorist
- Mike Cooley, Irish-born engineer and workplace activist
- Mike Cooley (football coach), US football coach
- Mike Cooley (born 1966), American guitarist/singer/lyricist, and co-founder of the rock/alt country band, Drive-By Truckers
- Rusty Cooley
- Ryan Cooley (born 1988), Canadian television actor
- Spade Cooley (1910–1969), American western swing musician, murdered his wife
- Stephen Cooley (born 1947), American prosecutor for Los Angeles County
- Thomas B. Cooley (1871–1945), American Pediatrician, first described ß-Thalassemia
- Thomas F. Cooley, American professor of economics at the New York University Stern School of Business
- Thomas M. Cooley (1824–1898), American jurist, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
- Tonya Cooley
- Troy Cooley
- Wes Cooley (born 1932), American politician, congressman from Oregon
- Wes Cooley (motorcyclist)
- William Cooley (born 1783), Florida Pioneer
- Winnifred Harper Cooley (1874—1967), American feminist author
Place names
Other
- Cooley Godward Kronish, Silicon Valley law firm
- Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley), central tale in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology
- Cooley High, 1975 film produced by American International Pictures
- Cooley High School, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Cooley v. Board of Wardens (53 U.S. 299) (1853), United States Supreme Court case regarding shipping
- Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan, USA
- Cooley (whiskey), an Irish whiskey brand.
See also