# Corky

Corky means cork-like. It is an English and Irish unisex name that also serves as a nickname for Courtney. It may also refer to:

## People
### Sportspeople

* Corky Ballas (born 1960), American 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 cricketer, nicknamed Corky
* Corky de Graauw (born 1951), Dutch ice hockey player
* Corky Devlin (1931–1995), American National Basketball Association player
* Corky McMillin (1925–2005), American off-road desert racer and land developer
* Corky Miller (born 1976), American Major League Baseball player
* Corky Nelson (1939–2014), American high school and college football player and coach
* Corky Palmer (born 1954), American college baseball coach
* Corky Rogers (1943–2020), American high school football coach
* Corky Valentine (1929–2005), American Major League Baseball pitcher
* Claire Corky (born 1984), New Zealand 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 (1947–2021), American photographer
* Corky Quakenbush, American 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 professions

* Charles A. Marvin (1929–2003), American judge and district attorney; see Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame
* Corky McCorquodale (1904–1968), American poker player
* Corin Nemec (born 1971), American actor
* Claude Nowell (1944–2008), also known as "Corky King" or "Corky Ra", American founder of Summum, a philosophical and religious organization
* Gaetano Vastola (gangster) (born 1928), American mobster

## Fictional characters

* Corky Caporale, a character in the television series The Sopranos
* James "Corky" Corcoran, a character in the "Ukridge" stories of P. G. Wodehouse
* Corky, in the 1996 film Bound
* Corky, in the animated television series The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
* Corky Romano, in the 2001 film Corky Romano
* Corky Sherwood, in the television series Murphy Brown
* Corky Shimatzu, a character in the animated television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
* Corky St. Clair, in the 1996 film Waiting for Guffman
* Charles "Corky" Thatcher, in the television series Life Goes On
* Corky Wallet, in the comic strip Gasoline Alley
* Corky Withers, in the 1976 Goldman novel Magic
* Corky the Hornet, the mascot of the Emporia State University sports teams
* Corky, one of Jenny's friends in the Disney film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
* Corky, a parrot in the BBC soap opera EastEnders

## Other uses

* Corky (film), a 1972 stock car film starring Robert Blake
* Corky (orca) (born 1965), the longest living orca in captivity
* Alternative spelling of Corkey, a village in Northern Ireland
* Cricket ball, commonly referred to as a corky
* Charley horse, a leg cramp, called a corky in Australia