Monk (disambiguation)

A monk is a person who practices a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle.

Monk may also refer to:

People

• Monk (Berkshire cricketer), English professional cricketer in the 1790s
• Allan Monk (born 1942), Canadian baritone
• Art Monk (born 1957), American football player who played in the 1980s and 1990s
• Debra Monk (born 1949), American actress, singer, and writer
• Frank Monk (1886–1962), English footballer (Southampton, Glossop, Fulham)
• Frederick Debartzch Monk (1856–1914), Canadian lawyer and politician
• Garry Monk (born 1979), English footballer
• George William Monk (1838-?), a Canadian politician
• Geraldine Monk (born 1952), British poet
• Hank Monk, legendary stagecoach driver in the American west
• Henry Wentworth Monk (1827–1896), millenarian prophet and early Zionist
• Ian Monk (born 1960), British writer and translator
• James Henry Monk (1784–1856), English divine and classical scholar
• Karyn Monk, historical romance novelist
• Lorraine Monk, Canadian photographer
• Marcus Monk (born 1986), NFL football player
• Maria Monk (1816–1849), supposed author of The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed
• Meredith Monk (born 1942), American composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer
• Ray Monk (born 1957), professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton
• Robert A. G. Monks, American entrepreneur, politician, and corporate activist
• Scott Monk (born 1974), Australian author
• Sophie Monk (born 1979), Australian pop singer, actress and occasional model
• Thelonious Monk (1917–1982), jazz pianist and composer
• T. S. Monk (born 1949), his son, American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader
• Wendy Monk (1915–2000)
• William Henry Monk (1823–1889), English hymn tune writer
• Monk Eastman (1875–1920), founder and leader of a powerful New York City gang

In writing

• The Monk, a 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis
• Andrew Blodgett Mayfair ("Monk"), an adventurer associate of Doc Savage
• Monk Magazine, a magazine featuring the adventures of Jim Crotty and Michael Lane
• Monk (comics), a vampire-werewolf hybrid and nemesis of Batman
• Monks (Oliver Twist), a character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• William Monk, a fictional Victorian era detective

In entertainment

• Monk (1954 album) by Thelonious Monk from Prestige
• Monk (1964 album) by Thelonious Monk from Columbia
• Monk (TV series), a television show about an obsessive-compulsive detective
  • Adrian Monk, the titular character
  • Monk (soundtrack), official soundtrack of the show
• The Monks, a 1960s rock band
• The Monks (UK band), a 1970s punk band
• Monk (band), led by former Over the Rhine guitarist Ric Hordinski
• Monk (character class), a character class in Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop and computer role-playing games
• Marty "Monk" Malone, a character from the video game The Godfather: The Game
• Monk (CITV), an animated series for children on CITV
• The Monk (1969 film), a 1969 made-for-television movie
• The Monk (1990 film), a British film
• The Monk (2011 film), a French film

Other

• Monk Parakeet
• Monk (Montreal Metro), a metro station in Montreal, Québec
• Monk shoe, a men's shoe with a buckled strap
• Monk (Dungeons & Dragons), a playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game

See also

• Monks Mound, the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica
• Monk's House, 18th century English cottage
• George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670), British general and politician in the Commonwealth and Restoration period
• SS Major General Wilhelm Mohnke (1911–2001), one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard "Berlin"
• Gerry Hutch ("The Monk", born 1963), Irish ex-gangster

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