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