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Cooper (surname)

Cooper is an Anglo-Saxon surname meaning maker of barrels and may refer to
* Afua Cooper, Jamaican-Canadian poet and academic
* Alan Cooper, creator of Visual Basic
* Alexander Cooper, British painter
* Alfred Cooper, British surgeon
* Alfred Cooper, South African cricketer
* Alice Cooper (b. 1948), born Vincent Damon Furnier, musician
* Andrew Cooper III, modelling pseudonym of Sam J. Jones
* Andy Cooper, American baseball player
* Ann Cooper Whitall, American Quaker
* Anna J. Cooper, African-American educator
* Anderson Cooper, journalist
* Anthony Ashley Cooper, head of cabal running the British government of the 1670s-80s
* Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Victorian era politician and reformer
* Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury (1831-1886)
* Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury (1869-1961)
* Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, 10th Earl
* Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 11th Earl of Shaftesbury, short-lived aristocrat
* Anthony Wayne Cooper, first African-American army controller of the year.
* Ashley Cooper, an Australian male tennis player
* Astley Cooper, British surgeon
* Barry Cooper, English composer and musicologist
* Bert Cooper, American boxer
* Betty Cooper, fictional character from Archie Comics
* Bradley Cooper, American actor
* Bransby Cooper, Australian cricketer
* Brent Cooper, American boxer
* Buzz Cooper, fictional character from Guiding Light
* Carl Cooper, British Anglican bishop
* Cecil Cooper, American baseball player
* Charles Cooper, one of several people including
**Charles "Tarzan" Cooper, basketball player (New York Renaissance)
**Charles "Chuck" Cooper, basketball player (first African-American draftee)
**Charles Cooper, a television and movie actor.
**Sir Charles Cooper (1795-1887), first Chief Justice of South Australia, 1856 - 1861
**Charles J. Cooper, former CJ Rehnquist clerk at same time as CJ Roberts and leading appellate litigator in DC firm.
** Charles Henry Cooper, an English antiquarian
* Charlotte Cooper, one of several people including
** Charlotte Cooper (tennis player) - Charlotte Reinagle Cooper, later Cooper Sterry, five-times Wimbledon Ladies Champion in the Victorian era.
** Charlotte Cooper (author) - British writer born 1968
** Charlotte Cooper (Bassist/Singer) - British band The Subways
* Chris Cooper, one of several people including
**Chris Cooper (actor), American actor
**Chris Cooper (football player), NFL player
* Christin Cooper, American skier
* Chuck Cooper, American basketball player
* Clarence Cooper, American judge
* Colin Cooper (football player), footballer
* Curtis Cooper, Mersenne prime discoverer
* Cynthia Cooper, one of several people including
**Cynthia Cooper, the whistleblower who exposed the corporate scandal at Worldcom.
** Cynthia Cooper, American basketball player
* Dale Cooper, fictional character from Twin Peaks
* Daniel C. Cooper, early American surveyor and politician
* Dean Cooper, rides bikes
* D. B. Cooper, famous airline hijacker
* D.C. Cooper, heavy metal singer born in 1965
* Dave Cooper, graphic artist, cartoonist
* David Cooper, one of several people including
** David Cooper (footballer), footballer
** David Cooper (psychiatrist), anti-psychiatrist
**David Charles Cooper (b. 1967), Canadian cartoonist, commercial illustrator and graphic designer
**David James Cooper, Canadian journalist and Green Party candidate
* Dennis Cooper, American poet and writer
* Lady Diana Cooper, society beauty and actress, wife of Duff Cooper
* Don Cooper, American baseball player
* Douglas Cooper, Canadian-American writer
* Douglas H. Cooper, American Civil War Confederate general
* Duff Cooper, British politician and writer
* Eddie Cooper, British actor
* Edmund Cooper, British writer
* Edward Cooper, British soldier
* Elizabeth Cooper, Filipina-American actress
* Frank Cooper, Australian politician
* Frank Cooper, fictional character from Guiding Light
* Frederic Taber Cooper, American writer, editor and academic
* Frederick Cooper, American historian
* Gareth Cooper, Welsh rugby player
* Gary Cooper, born Frank James Cooper, American film actor
* George Cooper, Australian cricket umpire
* Gladys Cooper, British actress
* Gordon Cooper, astronaut
* Harry Cooper, one of several people including
**Harry Cooper, a professional golfer
**Dr. Harry Cooper, an Australian veterinarian
**Dr. Harry Cooper, Curator of Modern Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
**Dr. Harry Bryant Cooper 1873 " 1959, a noted American physician who practiced in Hawaii
* Helen Cooper, one of several people including
** Helen Cooper, a professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University
** Helen Cooper, an illustrator and author of children's books
** Helen Cooper, Canadian politician and former mayor of Kingston, Ontario
* Henry Cooper, one of several people including
** Henry Cooper (boxer)
** Henry Cooper (U.S. Senator)
** Henry Cooper (VC)
** Henry Ernest Cooper Sr., American lawyer
* Ivan Cooper, Northern Ireland politician
* Jackie Cooper, American actor
* Jacqui Cooper, Australian skier
* Jane Cooper, ruler of all, queen of fashion
* James Cooper, one of several people including
**James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), American writer
**James Cooper (Pennsylvania) (1810-1863), American soldier & politician - Pennsylvania
**James Cooper (VC) (b. ca. 1840), English soldier
** James Graham Cooper, biologist
* Jeff Cooper, one of several people including
** Jeff Cooper, a former United States military figure known as the "Father of Modern Shooting",
** Jeff Cooper, a radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom
* Jere Cooper, American politician
* Jessie Cooper, Australian politician
* Jilly Cooper, English novelist
* Jim Cooper (fl. 2000s), American politician - Tennessee
* Jimmy Cooper, one of several people including
**Jimmy Cooper, fictional TV character (from The O.C.)
**Jimmy Cooper, Scottish hammered dulcimer player
**Jimmy Cooper, an American featherweight boxer from the 1940s and 1950s
* John Cooper, one of several people including
** John Cooper (around 1575–1626) or Giovanni Coprario, an English composer.
** John Tyler Cooper (1844–1912), a mayor of Atlanta
** John Montgomery Cooper (1881–1949), a U.S. ethnologist specialized in South America
** John Sherman Cooper (1901–1991), a United States senator and member of the Warren Commission
** John Cooper, British comics artist
** John Cooper, lead singer/bass guitar player for musical group Skillet
** John Cooper, former head coach at Ohio State and Arizona State
** John A. Cooper, Sr., late founder of Cooper Communities and places such as Bella Vista, AR
** John M. Cooper (b.1939), Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, specialist in Ancient philosophy
** John Cooper (car maker), founder with his father of the Cooper Car Company, eponym of the Mini Cooper
** John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, the British historian John Julius Norwich, son of Duff Cooper
* Jonas Cooper, Lethal Performance
* Julie Cooper, fictional TV character from The O.C.
* Justine Cooper (Buffyverse), fictional character from Angel
* Kaitlin Cooper, fictional TV character from The O.C.
* Kenneth H. Cooper, eponym of the Cooper test for fitness
* Kenny Cooper, English footballer
* Kyle Cooper
* Leon Neil Cooper, Nobel Laureate in physics, important contributor to the theory of superconductivity
* Lindsay Cooper, British musician and activist
* Marc Cooper, American journalist and blogger
* Marianne Leone Cooper, American actress
* Marina Cooper, fictional character from Guiding Light
* Marissa Cooper, fictional TV character from The O.C.
* Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone
* Matthew Cooper, American reporter
* Matt Cooper, Irish journalist
* Merian C. Cooper American movie actor, director, screenwriter and producer, "father" of King Kong
* Michael Cooper, American basketball player and coach
* Mike Cooper, Canadian politician
* Mike Cooper (broadcaster), Canadian broadcaster
* Miranda Cooper, British songwriter
* Mort Cooper, American baseball player
* Myers Y. Cooper, American politician
* Neale Cooper, Scottish football manager
* Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury
* Pat Cooper, American comedian
* Paul Cooper, British footballer
* Paulette Cooper, American journalist
* Peter Cooper, inventor, philanthropist, and founder of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
* Priscilla Cooper Tyler, de facto First Lady of USA 1842-4
* Ray Cooper, English musician
* Revel Cooper, Australian artist
* Richard Cooper, British politician
* Risteárd Cooper, Irish comedian
* Robert Cooper, one of several people including
**Robert B. Cooper, a U.S. electronics journalist.
**Robert C. Cooper, a Canadian writer and producer who is the executive producer of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.
**Robert Cooper (diplomat), the European Union's Council of Ministers' Director-General for Foreign Affairs.
**Robert Cooper (Software Engineer), a notable software engineer and developer
* Rosie Cooper, British politician
* Roxanne Cooper, British singer
* Russell Cooper, Australian politician
* Samuel Cooper, British painter
* Samuel Cooper (general), American Confederate general
* Selina Cooper, British suffragist and politician
* Shane Cooper, German installation artist
* Shaun Cooper, English footballer
* Shewell Cooper, organic gardener
* Simon Cooper, British Army officer
* Stoney Cooper, American country musician
* Susan Cooper, author of The Dark is Rising
* Susan Fenimore Cooper, author, daughter of James Fenimore Cooper
* Susie Cooper, British ceramic designer
* Tarzan Cooper, American basketball player
* Terence Cooper, British actor
* Terry Cooper, English football player
* Theodore Cooper, American engineer
* Thomas Cooper, one of several people including
**Thomas Cooper - bishop of Lincoln and Winchester.
**Thomas Sidney Cooper - British painter
**Thomas Cooper (1805 - 1892) - chartist poet
**Thomas Cooper - 19th century US politician
**Thomas Cooper (lawyer) (1764-1829) U.S. Representative from Delaware
* Thomas Cooper de Leon, American journalist
* Tommy Cooper, famous British comedian
* Trisha Cooper, British broadcaster
* Val Cooper, fictional character from the Marvel Universe
* Walker Cooper, American baseball player
* Warren Cooper, New Zealand politician
* Wesley Cooper, Canadian philosopher
* Whina Cooper, New Zealand Māori leader
* Wilbur Cooper, American baseball player
* Wilhelmina Cooper, American model
* William Cooper, one of several people including
**Judge William Cooper (1754-1809), the father of James Fenimore Cooper and founder of Cooperstown, New York.
**William Cooper (1761-1840), the Upper Canadian businessman. [1]
**William Cooper (1786-1867), the land agent and politician in Prince Edward Island. [2]
**William Cooper (1798-1864), nineteenth century American conchologist
**William Cooper (1849-1939), Australian cricketer
**William Cooper (1861-?), founder of the Australian Aborigines League
**William Cooper (1910-2002), the twentieth century British novelist
**William Cooper (1943-2001), the American radio talk show host killed in a shootout with police
** William B. Cooper, American politician
**William Milton Cooper, American writer and conspiracy theorist
* Wilson Marion Cooper, Sacred Harp teacher
* Wyatt Emory Cooper, American screenwriter
* Wyllis Cooper, American radio writer
* Yvette Cooper, a British Labour Party politician and Government Minister

See also

*Cooper, coop
*Couper
*Cowper



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