Hooker

Hooker may refer to:

People

• Hooker (surname)

Places

Antarctica

• Mount Hooker (Antarctica)
• Cape Hooker (Antarctica)
• Cape Hooker (South Shetland Islands)

New Zealand

• Hooker River
• Hooker Valley Track
• Mount Hooker (New Zealand) in the Southern Alps
• Hooker Glacier (New Zealand), in the Southern Alps

United States

• Hooker, California, an unincorporated community
• Hooker, Georgia, an unincorporated community
• Little Goose Creek (Kentucky), location of Hooker post office and river branch
• Hooker, Missouri, a ghost town
• Hooker, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Hooker, Oklahoma, a city
• Hooker, South Dakota, an unincorporated community
• Hooker County, Nebraska
• Hooker Township, Dixon County, Nebraska
• Hooker Township, Gage County, Nebraska
• Hooker Dam, a proposed dam on the Gila River in New Mexico
• Hooker Falls, North Carolina
• Mount Hooker (Wyoming)

Elsewhere

• Mount Hooker (Canada), a mountain on the Continental Divide and border between British Columbia and Alberta, Canada
• Hooker and Brown, mythical mountains alleged to exist in the Canadian Rockies
• Hooker Island, Franz Josef Land, Russia

In sport

• Hooker (rugby league), one of the positions in rugby league football
• Hooker, one of the positions in rugby union football
• In cricket, a batsman who plays the hook shot
• An expert practitioner of catch wrestling
• Hooker, book by Lou Thesz on professional wrestling
• A boxer who is particularly known for throwing hooks

Other uses

• Prostitute, colloquially called a "hooker"
• Galway hooker, a traditional Irish fishing boat
• Hooker Telescope, a 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory
• Hooker Emerald, a 75-carat (15.0 g) emerald owned by the Smithsonian Institution
• The title character of T. J. Hooker, an American police drama television program, played by William Shatner
• "Hooker", a song by Pink from the album Try This
• Hooker's Green, a particular mixture of green and blue

See also

• Hooker Creek (disambiguation)