Cooley is a surname of

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

and Irish origin. * Alford W. Cooley (1873–1913), justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court * Alice Kingsbury Cooley (1839-1910), British-born American actress, author, and poet * Bertram Cooley (1874–1935), South African cricketer *

Carroll Cooley Carroll Franklin Cooley (August 25, 1935 – May 29, 2023) was an American police detective. He was known for arresting laborer Ernesto Miranda. The arrest led to failing to warn a person of their constitutional rights before interrogating the ...

(1935–2023), American police detective *

Charles Horton Cooley Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist. He was the son of Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan. He wa ...

(1864–1929), American sociologist * Chelsea Cooley (born 1983), Miss USA 2005 * Chris Cooley (born 1982), American professional football player * David P. Cooley (1960–2009), American test pilot * Dennis Cooley (born 1944), Canadian poet, professor at the University of Manitoba * Denton Cooley (1920−2016), American physician and heart surgeon * Ed Cooley (born 1969), American college basketball coach * Emily M. J. Cooley (1831-1917), American religious and temperance leader * Garth Cooley (fl. 1980s–2010s), American taekwondo competitor * Gin Cooley (fl. 2000s–2020s), American singer, model and psychotherapist * Haskell Cooley (fl. 1970s), member of American southern gospel quartet The Cathedrals * Horace S. Cooley (1806-1850), American politician *

Jack Cooley Jack Ryan Cooley (born April 12, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for Ryukyu Golden Kings of the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for the University of Notre Dame. High school career Cooley was a three-year star ...

(born 1991), American basketball player * Jacquelin Smith Cooley (1883–1965), American botanist and mycologist *

James Cooley James William Cooley (September 18, 1926 – June 29, 2016) was an American mathematician. Cooley received a B.A. degree in 1949 from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, an M.A. degree in 1951 from Columbia University, New York, NY, and a Ph.D. degree ...

(1926-2016), American mathematician, developer of the Cooley–Tukey fast Fourier transform * Jodi Cooley (fl. 1990s–2020s), American physicist *

Joe Cooley Joe Cooley (1924–20 December 1973) was an Irish musician known for his traditional accordion music. Biography Cooley was born in Peterswell, County Galway in 1924. Both his parents were melodeon players, and Joe began playing accordi ...

(1924–1973), Irish accordionist * John K. Cooley (1927–2008), American journalist and author, specializing in terrorism and the Middle East *

Logan Cooley Logan Cooley (born May 4, 2004) is an American professional ice hockey center for the Utah Mammoth of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted third overall by the Arizona Coyotes in the 2022 NHL entry draft. Playing career Cooley play ...

(born 2004), American ice hockey player * Lou Cooley (dates unknown), American 19th-century gunfighter, friend of Wyatt Earp at the time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1881) *

Mason Cooley Mason Cooley (1927 – July 25, 2002) was an United States of America, American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of the aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me." He was professor emeritus of French, speech and ...

(1927–2002), American aphorist *

Mike Cooley (engineer) Michael Joseph Edward Cooley (23 March 1934 – 4 September 2020) was an Irish-born engineer, writer and trade union leader, best known for his work on the social effects of technology, "Socially Useful Production" and "Human Centred Systems". H ...

(1934–2020), Irish-born engineer and workplace activist * Mike Cooley (American football) (c. 1920–1988), American football coach *

Mike Cooley (musician) John Michael Cooley (born September 14, 1966) is an American songwriter, singer, and guitarist from Tuscumbia, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Muscle Shoals. He is a member of the band Drive-By Truckers. Background Cooley received his ...

(born 1966), American guitarist/singer/lyricist, and co-founder of the rock/alt country band,

Drive-By Truckers Drive-By Truckers are an American rock music, rock band based in Athens, Georgia. Two of five current members (Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley (American musician), Mike Cooley) are originally from The Shoals region of northern Alabama and met as ...

Quinton Cooley Quinton Cooley (born May 18, 2001) is an American football running back for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He previously played for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and Liberty Flames. High school career Cooley a ...

(born 2001), American football player * Rita Nealon Cooley (1919/1920–2006), American political scientist *

Rusty Cooley Rusty Cooley (born April 27, 1970) is an American guitarist and guitar teacher. He is known for his shredding. Career Beginnings Cooley received his first guitar, a Peavey T27, and amplifier, a Peavey Decade, for his fifteenth birthday. H ...

(born 1970), American guitarist *

Ryan Cooley Ryan Hadison Cooley (born May 18, 1988) is a Canadian consultant and former actor. He is best known for his role as James Tiberius "J.T." Yorke on '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' which he starred in from 2001 until 2007. He is currently the ...

(born 1988), Canadian television actor *

Spade Cooley Donnell Clyde "Spade" Cooley (December 17, 1910 – November 23, 1969) was an American Western swing musician, big-band leader, actor, television personality, and convicted murderer. In 1961, he was tried and convicted for the murder of his ...

(1910–1969), American western swing musician, murdered his wife *

Steve Cooley Stephen Lawrence Cooley (born May 1, 1947) is an American politician and prosecutor. He was the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2000 to 2012. Cooley was re-elected in 2004 and again in 2008. In 2010, Cooley won the Republican nominatio ...

(born 1947), American prosecutor for Los Angeles County *

Thomas Cooley (architect) Thomas Cooley (1740–1784) was an English-born Irish architect who came to Dublin from London after winning a competition for the design of Dublin's Royal Exchange in 1768. Early years Cooley was born to William and Mary Cooley in London and b ...

(1740–1784), Irish architect * Thomas Benton Cooley (1871–1945), American pediatrician, first described β-thalassemia * Thomas F. Cooley (1943–2021), American professor of economics at the New York University Stern School of Business *

Thomas M. Cooley Thomas McIntyre Cooley (January 6, 1824 – September 12, 1898) was an American judge. He was the 25th Justice and a Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, between 1864 and 1885. He was the father of sociologist Charles Cooley. He was a ch ...

(1824–1898), American jurist, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court * Thomas R. Cooley (1893–1959), United States Navy admiral *

Tonya Cooley Tonya Cooley (born January 7, 1980, in Visalia, California) is an American actress and television personality. She is a former cast member on MTV's reality television series, '' The Real World: Chicago'', the 11th season of '' The Real World'', w ...

(born 1980), American actress and reality television personality *

Troy Cooley Troy James Cooley (born 9 December 1965) is a former first-class cricketer who played for Tasmania, and was bowling coach for the England cricket team for several years before returning to Australia in 2006. Career Born in Launceston, Tasmania ...

(born 1965), cricketer for the Tasmanian Tigers *

Wes Cooley (motorcyclist) Wester Steven Cooley, (June 28, 1956 – October 16, 2021), better known as Wes, was an American former motorcycle road racer in the AMA Superbike class. He won the 1979 and 1980 AMA Superbike Championships on a Yoshimura Suzuki GS1000s.

(1956–2021), American motorcycle racer * Wes Cooley (politician) (1932–2015), American politician, congressman from Oregon *

William Cooley William Cooley (1783–1863) was one of the first American settlers, and a regional leader, in what is now known as Broward County in the state of Florida. His family was killed by Seminoles in 1836, during the Second Seminole War. The attack, ...

(1783–1863), American settler in Florida *

William Desborough Cooley William Desborough Cooley (c. 1795 – 1883) was an Irish geographer. Discoveries by European explorers gradually showed that a number of his theories about Central Africa, though strongly held, were incorrect. In other controversies his positio ...

(1795?–1883), Irish geographer * William T. Cooley (born 1966), American major general in the United States Air Force * Winnifred Harper Cooley (1874–1967), American feminist author

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