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Contents

• 1 Bird
• 2 Games
• 3 People
• 4 Places
• 5 Culture
• 6 Technology
• 7 Other
• 8 See also

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Rook or rooks may refer to:

Bird

• Rook (bird) (Corvus frugilegus), a member of the crow family

Games

• Rook (chess) or castle, a piece in the board game of chess
• Rook (card game)

People

• Alan Rook, editor of the 1936 issue of New Oxford Poetry, one of the Cairo poets
• Jean Rook (1931–1991), British newspaper columnist
• Jerry Rook (born 1943), American former professional basketball player
• Susan Rook, journalist and photographer
• Albert Harold Rooks (1891–1942), Captain in U.S. Navy, World War II Medal of Honor recipient

Places

• Montes Rook, a mountain range on the Moon
• Rooks County, Kansas
• Rooks, North Carolina
• Rooks Creek, Illinois

Culture

• Rook (album), a 2008 album by Shearwater
• The Dirty Rooks, an American rock band
• The Rook, the title character in a 1940s series of stories by Barry Reese
• Rook (Transformers), a fictional Transformers character
• Rook (comics), a comic book character from Eerie magazine

Technology

• Rook (rocket), a British rocket launched between 1959 and 1972
• "Rook", a Russian nickname for the Sukhoi Su-25 jet aircraft
• USS Rooks (DD-804) (1944–1962), destroyer, World War II and Korea
• Rook (1874–1892) GWR no. 2176, one of seven steam South Devon Railway 0-4-0 locomotives, Raven class

Other

• Rook (piercing), a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear

See also

• Rookery
• Rookery (slum)
• Rookie

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