Brooke

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

Basil Stanlake Brooke (1888–1973), 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Irish Unionist politician

Brooke baronets, families of baronets with the surname Brooke

Bryan Nicholson Brooke (1915–1998), English surgeon

Cecil Brooke-Short (1897–1934), English cricketer

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), (c.1740–1793), Irish author

Christopher Brooke (poet), English lawyer, author and politician

Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (1927–2015), British medieval historian

Edward Brooke (1919–2015), American politician

Eileen Brooke (1905–1989), British statistician and health policy professional

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

Emily Brooke (born 1985), British inventor

Frances Brooke (1724–1789), English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator

Frederick H. Brooke (1876–1960), American architect from Washington, D.C.

Garry Brooke (1960–2025), English footballer

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)

Humphrey Brooke (physician) (1617–1693), British doctor

Humphrey Brooke (art historian) (1914–1988), British art historian

Iris Brooke (1905–post 1967), English artist and author

James Brooke (1803–1868), first Rajah of Sarawak

James Brooke (born 1955), American journalist

Jennifer Brooke (born 1993/1994), English actress

Jocelyn Brooke (Jocelyn Bernard Brooke), writer

Sir John Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet of the Brooke Baronetcy of Almondbury (1844–1920)

John Brooke (1755–1802), English politician

John Charles Brooke (1748–1794), Somerset Herald

John Weston Brooke (1880–1908), English Officer in the Boer War, son of John Arthur

Jonatha Brooke (born 1964), American folk-rock singer-songwriter

John Mercer Brooke (1826–1906), scientist

Katharine Brooke, Lady Brooke (born 1964), British courtier

Lola Brooke, American rapper

Margaret Brooke, Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak

Michael Brooke (born 1952), New Zealand cricketer

Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville (born 1934), British politician and son of Henry

Peter Brooke (17th-century MP), English politician

Peter Brooke (businessman) (1929–2020), American businessman

Ralph Brooke (1553–1625), English Officer of Arms

Richard Kendall Brooke (1930–1996), South African ornithologist

Robert Brooke (disambiguation), several people

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 politician

Sylvia Brett (1885–1917), Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak

Tim Brooke-Taylor (born 1940), English actor

Sir Victor Alexander Brooke (1843–1891), 3rd Baronet, Anglo-Irish sportsman and naturalist

Winifred M. A. Brooke (1893–1975), British botanist, illustrator and author

Zachary Brooke (theologian) (1716–1788), English clergyman and academic

Zachary Nugent Brooke, (1883–1946), British medieval historian and writer

Zinzan Brooke (born 1965), New Zealand rugby player

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