Duke (disambiguation)

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A duke is an aristocrat of very high rank.

Duke, Dukes, The Duke or The Dukes may also refer to:

Geography

• Duke, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Duke Township, Harnett County, North Carolina
• Duke Township, Jackson County, Oklahoma – see List of Oklahoma townships
• (The) Duke City, a nickname for Albuquerque, New Mexico

People and fictional characters

• Duke (surname)
• Duke (nickname)
• Dukes (surname)
• Duke Ihenacho (born 1989), American National Football League player
• Duke Kahanamoku (1890–1968), Hawaiian swimmer and surfer
• Duke McKenzie (born 1963), British retired boxer
• Duke Worne (1888–1933), American silent film director and actor

Fictional characters

• Duke (G.I. Joe), from the G.I. Joe TV series, toy line and comic book series
• Duke the Lost Engine, from The Railway series
• Uncle Duke, from Doonesbury
• Tony "Duke" Evers, in the Rocky films
• Duke Lavery, on the American soap opera General Hospital
• Duke, from KOF: Maximum Impact
• Duke of New York, aka "The Duke, A Number One", gang leader in Escape from New York
• Duke Nukem (character), fictional character and action hero who has been the protagonist in over a dozen video games
• Duke, protagonist of the eponymous novel by Hal Ellson
• Duke, family pet in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies
• Duke, anthropomorphic dog with a southern accent in the comic Kelly & Duke
• Duke, a golden retriever who appears in commercials of Tennessee food producer Bush Brothers and Company (Bush's Baked Beans)
• Duke, the dog from films such as Barnyard and Back at the Barnyard
• Duke, a dog from The Secret Life of Pets

Sports

• Duke Blue Devils, the athletic program of Duke University
• Duquesne Dukes, the athletic program of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh
• James Madison Dukes, the athletic program of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia
• The Duke (racehorse), a 19th-century racing champion
• Albuquerque Dukes, a former Triple A Baseball team
• Duluth–Superior Dukes (1960–1970 team), a minor league baseball team
• Duluth–Superior Dukes (1993–2002 team), a professional baseball team
• Ingolstadt Dukes, an American football team from Ingolstadt, Germany
• Wellington Dukes, a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Wellington, Ontario, Canada

In business

• Duke (New Zealand), a television channel owned by Television New Zealand
• Dukes Aerospace, a valve manufacturer and subsidiary of TransDigm Group
• Duke Energy, a producer of gas and electric services in the United States
• Duke Records, a Memphis, Tennessee record label active from 1952 to 1973
• Duke Video, Motorsport DVD distributor based in the Isle of Man
• Duke's, an Indian soft drink brand of Duke and Sons
• Dukes brand cricket ball, manufactured by British Cricket Balls Ltd

In the military

• HMS Duke, various ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy
• Duke Field, a US Air Force airport in Florida
• Forward Operating Base Duke, a former US base in Iraq

Transportation

• Beechcraft Duke, a twin-engined airplane developed by Beechcraft in the 1960s and manufactured until 1983
• Duke motorcycles, created by KTM, such as 690 Duke and the 390 Duke
• The Duke, a short-lived 0-6-0 steam locomotive built in 1817 by George Stephenson for the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway
• GWR 3252 or Duke Class steam locomotives

Technology

• Dukes classification, a system for classifying colorectal cancers
• Duke (mascot), the mascot of the Java programming language
• Duke language, an Oceanic language
• Duke butterflies, species of the brush-footed butterfly genera
• Duke, an electronic countermeasure (jammer) specifically designed for radio-controlled improvised explosive devices (RCIED)
• Xbox Controller, often nicknamed the Duke

Film and television

• The Duke (TV series), 1954
• The Duke (miniseries), 1979
• The Duke (TV talk show), 2009, TV talk show for men by AXN Asia
• The Duke (film), a 1999 Disney film
• The Duke (1998 film), a 1998 short film
• The Dukes (TV series), an animated spinoff of The Dukes of Hazzard 1983
• The Dukes (film), a 2007 film with Chazz Palminteri
• Duke (film), an upcoming Korean film

Music

Bands and musicians

• Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
• The Dukes (New Zealand band), a rock group from New Zealand
• The Dukes (Australian band), rock band
• The Dukes (British band), a band featuring Miller Anderson and Jimmy McCulloch and their album The Dukes
• Duke (musician), a British vocalist/songwriter/composer/producer
• Rich Ward, guitarist of metal band Fozzy whose stage name is "The Duke"
• MC Duke, a British rapper
• The Duhks, a Canadian folk band

Albums

• Duke (album) (1980), by Genesis
• The Duke (Jørn Lande album) (2006), by Jørn Lande
• The Duke (Joe Jackson album) (2012)

Songs

• "The Duke" (Dave Brubeck song), a jazz standard penned by Dave Brubeck 1957
• "The Duke", a song by Blind Melon from Soup (Blind Melon album)

In print

• Duke: The Life and Times of John Wayne (1985)
• Duke (magazine), a defunct African-American men's magazine
• Duke, a 1949 novel by Hal Ellson

Other uses

• Duke University, a private research university in Durham, North Carolina
• The Dukes (Lancaster), formerly known as the Duke's Playhouse, a theatre in Lancaster, England
• Duke, an old English paper size measuring 7×5.5 inches (178×140 mm)

See also

• Duchess (disambiguation)