Richard Cook

Richard Cook or Cooke may refer to:

Artists

• Richard Cook (artist 1784–1857), English artist
• Richard Cook (journalist) (1957–2007), British jazz writer, magazine editor and former record company executive
• Richard Cook (painter born 1947), British painter
• Richard B. Cook (1838–1916), British author
• Richard Martin Oscar Cook (1888–1952), British author
• Richard P. Cook (born 1949), English artist

Politicians

• Richard Cecil Cook (1902–1977), Australian judge
• Richard Cook, chairperson of the Unionist funding organisation Constitutional Research Council
• Richard Cook, candidate in the 2010 US House of Representatives elections in Mississippi for District 2
• Richard Cook, member of parliament for Coventry
• Richard Cooke (MP for Lymington) (1561–1616), English-born politician
• Richard Cooke (MP for Preston) (died 1579), English politician

Other

• Dick Cook (Richard W. Cook), American film entertainment executive
• Richard Cook (safety researcher) (1953–2022), system safety researcher
• Richard E. Cook (1930–2024), former general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Richard G. Cooke (1946–2023), English archaeologist
• Richard J. Cook, American educator
• Richard Joseph Cooke (1853–1931), bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
• Richard M. Cook, American academic
• Richard W. Cook (1907–1992), American engineer
• Richard Cooke (footballer) (born 1965), English former footballer
• Rick Cook (architect) (born 1960), New York City architect

See also

• Cook (surname), an occupational surname of English origin
• Dick Cooke, former American college baseball coach
• Rick Cook (writer) (James Richard Cook; 1944–2022), American author