Hooker is a surname, and may refer to:
- Brian Hooker
- Earl Hooker
- Evelyn Hooker, Dr. Brian S Hooker, PhD PE is a Bioengineer and the team leader for the High Throughput Biology Team and Operations Manager of the DOE Genomics Genomes to Life (GTL Center Earl Hooker ( January 15, 1929 in Clarksdale Mississippi – April 21, 1970 in Chicago Illinois) was an American Evelyn Hooker ( September 2 1907 – November 18 1996) was a North American Psychologist most notable for her 1957 paper "The Adjustment (1907–1996), American psychologist
- H. Lester Hooker, American college basketball coach
- Isabella Beecher Hooker
- Jake Hooker
- John Hooker (English constitutionalist)
- John Jay Hooker
- John Lee Hooker (1917–2001), American blues singer and guitarist
- Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), English botanist (son of William Jackson Hooker)
- Joseph Hooker (1814–1879), American Civil War General
- Morna Hooker
- Reginald Hawthorn Hooker, English statistician (son of Joseph Dalton Hooker)
- Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian
- Richard Hooker, pseudonym of H. Richard Hornberger (1924–1997), Author of M*A*S*H
- Stanley George Hooker (1907–1984), English aero-engine designer
- Thomas Hooker (1586–1647), Puritan leader
- William Hooker (musician)
- William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), English botanist
- Worthington Hooker, American physician
Hooker may also refer to:
- a colloquial term for a prostitute
- a position in rugby union or rugby league
- an expert practitioner of catch wrestling who has an expanded knowledge of joint locks and muscle holds and can end a fight in seconds if needed to. H Lester Hooker Jr was the head men's basketball coach at the College of William & Mary (his alma mater from 1951-1952 and at University of Richmond from Isabella Beecher Hooker ( February 22 1822 &ndash January 25 1907) was a leader in the Women's suffrage movement and an author Jake Hooker (born Jerry Mamberg, May 3, 1953, Haifa, Israel)His family moved to the United States and he was brought up John Hooker or John Vowell (c 1527 – 1601 was an English writer Antiquary and civic administrator John Jay Hooker Jr (born 1930 is a Nashville Tennessee Attorney, Entrepreneur, Perennial candidate and political gadfly. John Lee Hooker ( August 22, 1917 &ndash June 21, 2001) was an influential American Post-war Blues singer Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, OM, GCSI, MD, FRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911 was an English Botanist and Explorer Joseph Hooker ( November 13, 1814 &ndash October 31, 1879) was a career United States Army officer fought in the Mexican-American Morna Dorothy Hooker (born 1931 is a British theologian and New Testament scholar Reginald Hawthorn Hooker ( January 12, 1867 - June 2, 1944) English civil servant statistician and meteorologist Richard Hooker (March 1554 – 3 November 1600) was an Anglican priest and an influential theologian. H Richard Hornberger ( February 1, 1924 &ndash November 4, 1997) was an American writer and surgeon born in Trenton Sir Stanley George Hooker ( September 30, 1907 – May 24, 1984) was a Jet engine Engineer, first at Rolls-Royce Thomas Hooker ( July 5 1586 &ndash July 7 1647) was a prominent Puritan religious and colonial leader remembered as probably the William Hooker (born 1946 is an American Jazz Drummer and Composer. Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS ( July 6, 1785 &mdash August 12, 1865) was an English botanist. Worthington Hooker (1806-1867 was an American Physician, born in Springfield Massachusetts. Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. A Rugby union team is made up of 15 players eight forwards numbered from 1 to 8 and seven backs numbered from 9 to 15 A typical Rugby league team consists of thirteen players on the field plus four substitutes on the bench Catch wrestling is a style of Wrestling. Catch wrestling is arguably the ancestor of modern Grappling, Professional wrestling, Mixed martial arts
- Hooker Glacier, a glacier close to the slopes of Mount Cook in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
- Hooker Island in the Franz Josef Land, Russia
- Hooker Township, Gage County, Nebraska
- Hooker, Oklahoma
- Galway Hooker, a traditional sailing vessel from the west coast of Ireland
- Galway Hooker Beer, a pale ale brewed in Galway on the west coast of Ireland
- Title of Lou Thesz's book on Professional Wrestling
- The former name of rock band Aerosmith
- The 100 inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory
- T.J. Hooker, a 1980s crime drama
Hooker Glacier is one of several Glaciers close to the slopes of Aoraki/Mount Cook in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Hooker Island (остров Гукера Ostrov Gukera) is one of the most important islands of Franz Josef Land. Hooker Township is one of twenty-four townships in Gage County, Nebraska, United States. Hooker is a city in Texas County, Oklahoma, in the United States. The Galway Hooker ( Irish: bád mór or húicéir) is a traditional sailing boat used in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland See also Galway Hooker Galway Hooker is a type of Beer, an Irish Pale Ale to be precise brewed by a microbrewery in the West of Ireland Aloysius Martin Thesz ( April 24 1916 - April 28 2002) also known as The Great One, was a professional wrestler and Aerosmith is an American Hard rock band sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston " and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band" The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO is an Astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County California. T J Hooker is a weekly American police drama Television program starring William Shatner.
Dictionary
hooker
-noun
- (slang) A prostitute
- A small fishing boat.
- In rugby, a player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
- A knitter.
- A person that hooks.
- (slang) A measurement of alcohol without definite amounts, meaning the same thing as a "slug" (of gin), an overlarge gulp. Used from the 1920s through the 1940s.
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