Monk (disambiguation)

A monk is a person who practices a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle.

Monk may also refer to:

People

 * Monk (nickname)
 * Monk (surname)
 * Monk Gibbon (1896–1987), Irish poet and author
 * Monk Higgins (1936–1986), American musician and saxophonist
 * Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), American jazz pianist and composer

Places

 * Monk (Montreal Metro), a metro station in Montreal, Québec, Canada
 * Monk Islands, South Orkney Islands, off Antarctica
 * Monk's House, an 18th-century English cottage

Characters

 * Monk (character class), a character class in a number of role-playing tabletop and video games
 * Monk (Dungeons & Dragons), a playable character in most versions of Dungeons & Dragons
 * Monk (comics), a vampire-werewolf hybrid and nemesis of Batman
 * The Monk (Doctor Who), a recurring villain in the Doctor Who television series and related media
 * Andrew Blodgett Mayfair ("Monk"), an adventurer associate of Doc Savage's
 * the title character of Monk Little Dog, an animated series for children on CITV
 * Adrian Monk, the protagonist of the television series Monk
 * William Monk, a Victorian-era detective

Films

 * The Monk (1969 film), a made-for-television movie
 * The Monk (1972 film), a French-German-Italian-Belgian film
 * The Monk (1975 film), a Hong Kong martial arts film
 * The Monk (1990 film), a British film
 * The Monk (2011 film), a French film
 * The Monk (2015 film), a Chinese film

Music

 * Monk (band), led by former Over the Rhine guitarist Ric Hordinski
 * Monk (1954 album), by Thelonious Monk
 * Monk (1964 album), by Thelonious Monk

Television

 * Monk (TV series), a television show about an obsessive-compulsive detective
 * Monk (soundtrack), a 2004 soundtrack of the show

In print

 * Monk Magazine, a magazine featuring the adventures of Jim Crotty and Michael Lane
 * The Monk, a 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis

Flora and fauna

 * Amauris tartarea, a butterfly also known as the monk or dusky friar
 * Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus), a bird of South America
 * Monk seal, any of several species of the tribe Monachini
 * Siraitia grosvenorii, a vine which bears a fruit known as monk fruit

Other uses

 * Monk shoe, a men's shoe with a buckled strap