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:

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