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Brooke (surname)

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Brooke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963), British Chief of the Imperial General Staff in WW 2
  • Arthur Brooke (poet) (died 1563), English poet
  • Arthur Brooke (lieutenant-general) (1772–1843), British general
  • Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791–1858), British baronet and travel writer
  • Arthur Brooke (entrepreneur) (1845–1918), founder of Brooke Bond tea company
  • Ashlynn Brooke (born 1985), American pornographic actress
  • Basil Stanlake Brooke (1888–1973), Irish Unionist politician
  • Charles Brooke (Jesuit) (1777–1852), English Jesuit
  • Charles Brooke (surgeon) (1804–1879), English surgeon and inventor
  • Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke (1829–1917), Second Rajah of Sarawak
  • Charles Vyner Brooke (1874–1963), Third and last Rajah of Sarawak
  • Charlotte Brooke (writer), (died 1793), Irish author, youngest daughter of Henry Brooke
  • Christopher Brooke, English lawyer and author, MP from the City of York
  • Edward Brooke (1919–2015), American politician
  • Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Wyatt, alleged mistress of Henry VIII and estranged wife of the poet Thomas Wyatt
  • Elisabeth Brooke, Marchioness of Northampton (died 1565), leading lady at the court of Edward VI and Elizabeth I of England
  • Elizabeth Brooke (writer) (1601–1683), English religious writer
  • Frances Brooke (1724–1789), English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator
  • George Brooke (conspirator) (1568–1603), executed for his part in two plots against the government of King James I
  • Graeme Brooke (born 1963), Australian boxer of the 1980s
  • Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818–1866), Irish stage actor, active in Ireland, England and Australia
  • Gwydion Brooke (1912–2005), British bassoonist
  • Heather Brooke (born 1970), American journalist
  • Henry Brooke (disambiguation)
  • James Brooke (1803–1868), First Rajah of Sarawak
  • Jocelyn Brooke (Jocelyn Bernard Brooke), writer
  • Sir John Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet of the Brooke Baronetcy of Almondbury (1844–1920)
  • John Charles Brooke (1748–1794), FSA, Somerset Herald
  • John Weston Brooke (1880–1908), English Officer in the Boer War, son of John Arthur Brooke
  • Jonatha Brooke (born 1964), American folk-rock singer-songwriter
  • John Mercer Brooke (1826–1906), scientist; USN & CSN
  • Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville (born 1934), British politician and son of Henry Brooke
  • Peter Brooke (17th-century MP), English politician
  • Ralph Brooke (1553–1625), English Officer of Arms in the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I
  • Richard Kendall Brooke (1930–1996), a South African ornithologist
  • Sir Robert Weston Brooke, 2nd Baronet of the Brooke Baronetcy of Almondbury (1885–1942)
  • Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), poet
  • Samuel Brooke (died 1632?), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
  • Stopford Brooke (chaplain) (1832–1916), Irish churchman and writer
  • Stopford Brooke (politician) (1859–1938), British Member of Parliament from 1906 to 1910
  • Sylvia Brett (1885–1917), Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak
  • Tim Brooke-Taylor (born 1940), English actor
  • Zachary Brooke (theologian) (1716–1788), English clergyman and academic
  • Zachary Nugent Brooke, (1883–1946), British medieval historian and writer
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