Monk (surname)

Monk is an English surname.

Notable people with the surname "Monk" include

 * Monk (Berkshire cricketer), English professional cricketer in the 1790s
 * Allan Monk (born 1942), Canadian baritone
 * Art Monk (born 1957), American football player who played in the 1980s and 1990s
 * Cyril Monk (1882–1970), Australian violinist
 * Cyrus Monk (born 1996), Australian cyclist
 * Debra Monk (born 1949), American actress, singer, and writer
 * Elizabeth Monk (1898–1980), Canadian lawyer and city councillor
 * Frank Monk (1886–1962), English footballer (Southampton, Glossop, Fulham)
 * Frederick Debartzch Monk (1856–1914), Canadian lawyer and politician
 * Garry Monk (born 1979), English footballer
 * George William Monk (1838–?), a Canadian politician
 * Geraldine Monk (born 1952), British poet
 * Hank Monk, legendary stagecoach driver in the American west
 * Henry Wentworth Monk (1827–1896), millenarian prophet and early Zionist
 * Ian Monk (born 1960), British writer and translator
 * Jacob Monk (born 2001), American football player
 * James Henry Monk (1784–1856), English divine and classical scholar
 * Karyn Monk, historical romance novelist
 * Lorraine Monk (1922–2020), Canadian photographer
 * Malik Monk (born 1998), American basketball player
 * Marcus Monk (born 1986), NFL football player; brother of Malik
 * Maria Monk (1816–1849), supposed author of The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed
 * Meredith Monk (born 1942), American composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer
 * Quincy Monk (1979–2015), was an American football linebacker
 * Ray Monk (born 1957), professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton
 * Robert W. Monk (1866–1924), American physician and politician
 * Robert A. G. Monks (b. 1933), American entrepreneur, politician, and corporate activist
 * Scott Monk (born 1974), Australian author
 * Sophie Monk (born 1979), Australian pop singer, actress and occasional model
 * Thelonious Monk (1917–1982), jazz pianist and composer
 * T. S. Monk (born 1949), his son, American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader
 * Wendy Monk (1915–2000); Wendy Trewin, English author
 * William Monk (artist) (1863–1937), British etcher, wood-engraver and painter
 * William Henry Monk (1823–1889), English hymn tune writer

Fictional characters

 * Adrian Monk, the titular protagonist of the Monk TV series