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Rook may refer to:

Common meanings

• Rook (bird), a bird of the corvid family
• Rook (chess), a piece in the game of chess

People

• Rook (surname)
• Russell Rook, Baron Rook (The Lord Rook; 21st century), British Anglican priest; elevated to Baron Rook lifepeerage in 2024
• Jared Isaacman (callsign "Rook"), American entrepreneur, e-finance executive, aerospace executive, private astronaut, administrator of NASA
• Martin "Rook" O'Prey (1962–1991), Northern Ireland republican paramilitary
• Erik "Rook" Ortiz, member of the U.S. hiphop collective J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League
• Rook Valard (born 1974), U.S. musician
• a rookie, shortened to rook

Places

• Rook Mountain, a summit in Alaska, USA
• Qolla l-Bajda Battery or Rook, a discothèque in Żebbuġ, Gozo, Malta
• Rook Clift, South Harting, West Sussex, England, UK, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest
• Rook Street, Mere, Wiltshire, England, UK
• Montes Rook, a mountain range on the Moon

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• The Rook (comics), a comic book character from Eerie magazine
• Rook (G.I. Joe), in the G.I. Joe universe
• Rook, an Utrom in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles season 4
• Rook Bartley, in Robotech
• Rook Blonko, in Ben 10: Omniverse
• Bodhi Rook, in the Star Wars film Rogue One
• Harlan Rook, villain of the 1988 film The Dead Pool
• Alexander Rook, a recurring antagonist in the 2015 Dark Matter television series

Other arts and entertainment

• Rook (album), 2008 album by Shearwater
• The Rook (novel), a 2011 supernatural thriller by Daniel O'Malley
  • The Rook (TV series), a TV series on Starz
• Rook Islands, a fictional group of islands in the video game Far Cry 3

Military

• Sukhoi Su-25 "Rook" (Russian: Грач, romanized: Grach, lit. 'Rook', a Russian close air support aircraft
• USS Rooks (DD-804), a destroyer launched in 1944, a Cold War U.S. Navy destroyer
• HMS Rook (1806), a 19th-century British Royal Navy schooner

Other uses

• Rook (card game), a trick-taking card game
• Rook (piercing), a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear
• Rook (rocket), a British rocket in use from 1959 and 1972
• Rook, an 1874 South Devon Railway 0-4-0 locomotive
• .300 Rook, an obsolete rifle cartridge

See also

• Rook rifle, an obsolete rifle intended for shooting small game
• Rook's Textbook of Dermatology
• All pages with titles beginning with ROOK
• All pages with titles beginning with Rook
• All pages with titles containing rook
• Rooke
• Rooks (disambiguation)
• Rookie (disambiguation)
• Rok (disambiguation)