- Cooke, Alistair Cooke, Alfred Alistair Cooke - United States journalist (born in England in 1908)
--1 is a kind of journalist
- Cooke, Jay Cooke - United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)
--2 is a kind of financier, moneyman