Corky

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Corky means cork-like. It may also refer to:

• Corky (film), 1972 stock car film starring Robert Blake
• Corky (killer whale), born 1965
• Cricket ball, commonly referred to as a corky
• Charley horse, called a corky in Australia

People

Sportspeople

• Corky Ballas (born 1960), retired competitive ballroom dancer
• Corky or Corkie Blow (1877-1938), English footballer
• Corky Calhoun (born 1950), American former National Basketball Association player
• Corky Carroll (born 1947), American surfer
• Dominic Cork (born 1971), English former cricketer
• Corky de Graauw (born 1951), Dutch former ice hockey player
• Walter Devlin (1931-1995), American National Basketball Association player
• Corky McMillin (1925-2005), off-road desert racer and land developer
• Corky Miller (born 1976), American former Major League Baseball player
• Corky Nelson (1939-2014), American high school and college football player and coach
• Corky Palmer (born 1954), American retired college baseball coach
• Corky Rogers (born 1943), American high school football coach
• Corky Valentine (1929-2005), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Claire Corky (born 1984), New Zealand former rugby union player

Musicians

• Corky Cornelius (1914-1943), American jazz trumpeter
• Corky Hale (born 1936), American jazz musician
• Corky James (born 1954), American guitarist and bassist
• Corky Jones, pseudonym used by Buck Owens (1929-2006) for his rockabilly music
• Corky Laing (born 1948), Canadian rock drummer
• Corky Siegel (born 1943), American musician and composer

Artists

• Corwin Clairmont (born 1946), Native American artist
• Corky Lee (born 1948), American photographer
• Corky Quakenbush, stop motion filmmaker
• Corky Trinidad (1939-2009), Philippine-American editorial cartoonist and comics artist

Politicians and activists

• Corky Evans (born 1948), Canadian politician
• Rodolfo Gonzales (1928-2005), Chicano boxer, poet and political activist
• Corky Peterson, Canadian politician and trapper

Other

• Corky McCorquodale (1904–1968), professional poker player
• Corin Nemec (born 1971), American actor
• Claude Nowell (1944-2008), also known as "Corky King" or "Corky Ra", founder of Summum, a philosophical and religious organization
• Bill Richmond (director) (born 1958), American producer and director
• Gaetano Vastola (gangster) (born 1928), American mobster

Fictional characters

• Corky Sherwood, on the television show Murphy Brown
• Charles "Corky" Thatcher, on the television show Life Goes On played by Chris Burke (actor)
• Corky Caporale, Corky Ianucci, and Corky DiGioia, in the television series The Sopranos
• a title character of The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky, Australian animated television program
• Corky, one of the main characters in Bound (1996 film)
• the title character of the film Corky Romano
• Corky St. Clair, in the mockumentary Waiting for Guffman
• James "Corky" Corcoran, in the "Ukridge" stories of P. G. Wodehouse
• Corky the Hornet, the mascot of the Emporia State University sports teams
• Corky Wallet, a character in the long-running Gasoline Alley comic strip

See also

• Corky's, a restaurant in Los Angeles
• Korki Buchek, fictional musician from the movie Borat
• Cokie Roberts, journalist and author