Cooper (surname)

A

• Afua Cooper, Jamaican-Canadian poet and academic
• Alan Cooper, creator of Visual Basic
• Alexander Cooper, English painter
• Alfred Cooper, English surgeon
• Alfred Cooper (cricketer), South African cricketer
• Alice Cooper (b. 1948), born Vincent Damon Furnier, musician
• Anderson Cooper, journalist
• 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
• 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
• Ashley Cooper (race driver), Australian race-car driver
• Ashley Cooper (tennis player), Australian male tennis player
• Astley Cooper, English surgeon

B

• Barry Cooper (author), British author
• Barry Cooper (musicologist), English musicologist and composer
• Barry Cooper (cricketer), New Zealand cricketer
• Barry F. Cooper, Canadian political scientist
• S. Barry Cooper, British mathematician
• Bert Cooper, American boxer
• Betty Cooper, fictional character from Archie Comics
• Bradley Cooper, American actor
• Bradley Cooper (athlete), Bahamian discus thrower and shot putter
• Bransby Cooper, Australian cricketer
• Brent Cooper, American boxer
• Buzz Cooper, fictional character from Guiding Light

C

• Calico Cooper, American actress
• 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.
• 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) - English band The Subways
• Chris Cooper, one of several people including
• Chris Cooper (actor), American actor
• Chris Cooper (American football), NFL player
• Christin Cooper, American skier
• Clarence Cooper, American judge
• Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter
• Colm Cooper, Irish Gaelic footballer with Kerry GAA
• Courtney Ryley Cooper, circus clown, journalist and book author
• 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

D

• Dale Cooper, fictional character from Twin Peaks
• Daniel C. Cooper, early American surveyor and politician
• 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
• Davie Cooper, Scottish 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

E

• Duff Cooper, British politician and writer
• Earl Cooper, Leading Race car driver, 1900-1925
• Eddie Cooper, British actor
• Edmund Cooper, English writer
• Edward Cooper, English soldier
• Edward Cooper, Former mayor of New York City
• Elizabeth Cooper, Filipina-American actress, there is also a fictional character of the same name
• Emma Lampert Cooper, American painter

F

• Frank Cooper, Australian politician
• Frank Cooper, fictional character from Guiding Light
• Frederic Taber Cooper, American writer, editor and academic
• Frederick Cooper, American historian

G

• Gareth Cooper, Welsh rugby player
• Gary Cooper, born Frank James Cooper, American film actor
• George Cooper, one of several people
• Gladys Cooper, English actress
• Gordon Cooper, astronaut
• Gwen Cooper one of the main protagonists in the fictional television series Torchwood.

H

• Harry Cooper, one of several people including
• Harry Cooper, a professional golfer
• Dr. Harry Cooper, an Australian veterinarian
• 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

I

• Ian Cooper (ice hockey), British ice hockey player
• Ivan Cooper, Northern Ireland politician

J

• Jackie Cooper, American actor
• Jacqui Cooper, Australian skier
• 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
• Jerry W. 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
• 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 Sherman Cooper (1901–1991), a United States senator and member of the Warren Commission
• John Cooper, lead singer/bass guitar player for musical group Skillet
• John Cooper, former head coach at Ohio State and Arizona State
• 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 English historian John Julius Norwich, son of Duff Cooper
• Josh Cooper, English cryptographer
• Julie Cooper, fictional TV character from The O.C.
• Justine Cooper, fictional character from Angel

K

• Kaitlin Cooper, fictional TV character from The O.C.
• Katie Cooper, American actress
• Kenneth H. Cooper, eponym of the Cooper test for fitness
• Kenny Cooper, American footballer
• Kevin Cooper, English footballer
• Kyle Cooper

L

• Lauren Cooper, a character in The Catherine Tate Show
• Leon Neil Cooper, Nobel Laureate in physics, important contributor to the theory of superconductivity
• Lindsay Cooper, English musician (bassoon and oboe), composer and activist
• Lindsay L. Cooper, Scottish musician (double-bass and cello)
• Marc Cooper, American journalist and blogger

M

• Marianne Leone Cooper, American actress
• Marina Cooper, fictional character from Guiding Light
• Marissa Cooper, fictional TV character from The O.C.
• Mark Anthony Cooper, atty, legislator, iron man of Georgia
• 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
• Milton William Cooper, American writer
• Miranda Cooper, British songwriter
• Mort Cooper, American baseball player
• Myers Y. Cooper, American politician

N

• Neale Cooper, Scottish football manager
• Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury

P

• Pat Cooper, American comedian
• Paul Cooper, English 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

Q

• Quade Cooper, Australian rugby union player

R

• Ray Cooper, English musician
• Revel Cooper, Australian artist
• Richard Cooper, one of several people including
• Sir Richard Cooper, 2nd Baronet, British Conservative politician
• Richard Cooper, Jr, British artist
• Risteárd Cooper, Irish comedian
• Robert Cooper, one of several people including
• Robert A. Cooper, former governor of South Carolina
• 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.
• Rosie Cooper, British politician
• Roxanne Cooper, British singer
• Roy Cooper, one of several people including
• Roy A. Cooper, American politician
• Roy Percy Cooper, Australian ornithologist
• Russell Cooper, Australian politician

S

• Samuel Cooper, English painter
• Samuel Cooper, Boston, MA, (1725-1783) (Dr(Phd)/Rev) Patriot in Rev War
• Samuel Cooper (general), American Confederate general
• Sarah Cooper, Victorian British Oxford-based marmalade maker
• Selina Cooper, English 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, English ceramic designer

T

• Tarzan Cooper, American basketball player
• Terence Cooper, Northern Irish 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 - English painter
• Thomas Cooper (1805 - 1892) - chartist poet
• Thomas Cooper - 19th century US politician
• Thomas Cooper (representative) (1764-1829) U.S. Representative from Delaware
• Thomas Cooper, Captain of Boston (-1706) largest tax payer of Boston, grandfather of patriot Saml
• Thomas Cooper de Leon, American journalist
• Tommy Cooper, famous British comedian
• Trisha Cooper, British broadcaster

V

• Val Cooper, fictional character from the Marvel Universe

W

• Walker Cooper, American baseball player
• Warren Cooper, New Zealand politician
• 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 (1798-1864), nineteenth century American conchologist
• William Cooper (1849-1939), Australian cricketer
• William Cooper (1861-1941), founder of the Australian Aborigines League
• William Cooper (1910-2002), the twentieth century English novelist
• William Cooper (1943-2001), the American radio talk show host killed in a shootout with police
• William Bryant Cooper, Lt. Governor of North Carolina
• William B. Cooper, American politician
• William D. Cooper, Master Builder
• William T. Cooper (b. 1934), Australian artist
• Milton William 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 (disambiguation)
• Couper
• Cowper (surname)