What is "brooke"

fem. proper name, rare in U.S. before 1965, popular 1980s, 1990s.

n. (obsolete spelling of brook English) vb. 1 (obsolete spelling of brook English) 2 (obsolete spelling of broke English)

Brooke may refer to:

The name Brooke is a common female given name and uncommonly a male given name, also used as a surname. Other forms of Brooke include Brook. Its meaning is "a brook or a stream".

Brooke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963), British Chief of the Imperial General Staff in WW 2
• Arthur Brooke (poet) (died 1563), English poet
• Arthur Brooke (lieutenant-general) (1772–1843), British general
• Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791–1858), British baronet and travel writer
• Arthur Brooke (entrepreneur) (1845–1918), founder of Brooke Bond tea company
• Ashlynn Brooke (born 1985), American pornographic actress
• Basil Stanlake Brooke (1888–1973), Irish Unionist politician
• Charles Brooke (Jesuit) (1777–1852), English Jesuit
• Charles Brooke (surgeon) (1804–1879), English surgeon and inventor
• Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke (1829–1917), Second Rajah of Sarawak
• Charles Vyner Brooke (1874–1963), Third and last Rajah of Sarawak
• Charlotte Brooke (writer), (died 1793), Irish author, youngest daughter of Henry Brooke
• Christopher Brooke, English lawyer and author, MP from the City of York
• Edward Brooke (1919–2015), American politician
• Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Wyatt, alleged mistress of Henry VIII and estranged wife of the poet Thomas Wyatt
• Elisabeth Brooke, Marchioness of Northampton (died 1565), leading lady at the court of Edward VI and Elizabeth I of England
• Elizabeth Brooke (writer) (1601–1683), English religious writer
• Frances Brooke (1724–1789), English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator
• George Brooke (conspirator) (1568–1603), executed for his part in two plots against the government of King James I
• Graeme Brooke (born 1963), Australian boxer of the 1980s
• Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818–1866), Irish stage actor, active in Ireland, England and Australia
• Gwydion Brooke (1912–2005), British bassoonist
• Heather Brooke (born 1970), American journalist
• Henry Brooke (disambiguation)
• James Brooke (1803–1868), First Rajah of Sarawak
• Jocelyn Brooke (Jocelyn Bernard Brooke), writer
• Sir John Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet of the Brooke Baronetcy of Almondbury (1844–1920)
• John Charles Brooke (1748–1794), FSA, Somerset Herald
• John Weston Brooke (1880–1908), English Officer in the Boer War, son of John Arthur Brooke
• Jonatha Brooke (born 1964), American folk-rock singer-songwriter
• John Mercer Brooke (1826–1906), scientist; USN & CSN
• Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville (born 1934), British politician and son of Henry Brooke
• Peter Brooke (MP),17th-century English politician
• Ralph Brooke (1553–1625), English Officer of Arms in the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I
• Richard Kendall Brooke (1930–1996), a South African ornithologist
• Sir Robert Weston Brooke, 2nd Baronet of the Brooke Baronetcy of Almondbury (1885–1942)
• Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), poet
• Samuel Brooke (died 1632?), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
• Stopford Brooke (chaplain) (1832–1916), Irish churchman and writer
• Stopford Brooke (politician) (1859–1938), British Member of Parliament from 1906 to 1910
• Sylvia Brett (1885–1917), Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak
• Tim Brooke-Taylor (born 1940), English actor
• Zachary Brooke (theologian) (1716–1788), English clergyman and academic
• Zachary Nugent Brooke, (1883–1946), British medieval historian and writer