# Hooker (surname)

Hooker is a surname, originally indicating someone who made hooks or an agricultural worker who used hooks. Notable people with the surname include:
* Amani Hooker (born 1998), American football player
* Brad Hooker (born 1957), English philosopher
* Cameron Hooker, American man sentenced to prison for 105 years for the kidnapping of Colleen Stan
* Charles E. Hooker (1825–1914), U.S. Representative from Mississippi
* Dan Hooker, New Zealand mixed martial artist
* Destinee Hooker (born 1987), American volleyball player
* Earl Hooker (1929–1970), American blues guitarist
* Elon Huntington Hooker (1869–1938), American entrepreneur
* Evelyn Hooker (1907–1996), American psychologist
* Fair Hooker (born 1947), American professional football player
* Frank A. Hooker (1844–1911), American jurist
* George Hooker (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballer
* George Hooker (cricketer) (1836–1877), English cricketer
* George W. Hooker (1838–1902), American military officer and politician
* H. Lester Hooker (1921–1999), American college sports coach
* Hendon Hooker (born 1998), American football player
* Henrietta Hooker (1851–1929), American botanist
* Henry Hooker (1828–1907), American Old West rancher
* Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822–1907), American suffragette leader
* Jake Hooker (journalist) (born 1973), American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
* James Hooker (disambiguation)
* Janusz Hooker (born 1969), Australian businessman
* Jeff Hooker (born 1965), American retired soccer player and current coach
* John Hooker (English constitutionalist) (c. 1527 – 1601), English writer, solicitor, antiquary, civic administrator and advocate of republican government
* John Daggett Hooker (1838–1911), social leader, amateur scientist and astronomer, donor of Hooker Telescope
* John Lee Hooker (1917–2001), American blues musician
* Johnny Hooker (born 1987), Brazilian rock/MPB musician
* Joseph Hooker (1814–1879), American Civil War major general
* Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), English botanist, son of William Jackson Hooker
* Katharine Putnam Hooker (1849–1935), American writer, philanthropist and socialite
* Leslie Joseph Hooker (1903–1976), Australian property entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist
* Malik Hooker (born 1996), American football player
* Marjorie Hooker (1908–1976), American geologist
* Morna Hooker (born 1931), British theologian and New Testament scholar
* Olivia Hooker (1915–2018), United States Coast Guard officer and psychologist
* Philip Hooker (1766–1836), American architect
* Quinton Hooker (born 1995), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Reginald Hawthorn Hooker (1867–1944), English statistician, son of Joseph Dalton Hooker
* Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian
* Richard Hooker (author), pseudonym of H. Richard Hornberger (1924–1997), American writer and surgeon
* Robbie Hooker (born 1967), Australian footballer and football manager
* Ron Hooker (1935–2019), English former cricketer
* S. Percy Hooker (1860–1915), American politician from New York and New Hampshire
* Stanley Hooker (1907–1984), English aviation engineer
* Steve Hooker (born 1982), Australian pole vaulter
* Thomas Hooker (1586–1647), Puritan leader
* T J Hooker fictional character portrayed by William Shatner
* William Hooker (musician) (born 1946), American jazz drummer and composer
* William Hooker (botanical illustrator) (1779–1832), known for Hooker's Green
* William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), English botanist, father of Joseph Dalton Hooker
* Worthington Hooker (1806–1867), American physician
* Hooker (Kent cricketer), 18th century English cricketer