Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet, of Baltimore (1574–1630) was an English-born politician, lawyer, and landowner in seventeenth-century Ireland. He is chiefly remembered as the founder of the town of Baltimore, County Cork, which he developed into a flourishing port but which was largely destroyed shortly after his death in the Sack of Baltimore 1631. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as a member for Baltimore in the Parliament of 1613–1615. He was the first of the Crooke baronets of Baltimore and an ancestor of the Crooke family of Crookstown House.
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland
- Born
- 1574