Hook (disambiguation)
Hook stands for:
- a punch in boxing, see hook (boxing)
- Captain Hook, literary character from the novel Peter Pan
- Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, US-American pop-country-rock band
- Fish Hook River (or Fishhook River), a tributary of the Shell River in northern Minnesota in the United States.
- a certain type of trajectory of the ball in golf, see golf swing#trajectories
- Hook (computer game), computer game by the company Irem
- Hook (film), film by Steven Spielberg, based on the Peter Pan story.
- Hook (film dramaturgy), film dramaturgical technical term
- Hook (computer science), programming interface in EDP
- Hookline, catchy melody of a piece of music
- Toehook, a foot hook (English foothook) when climbing, known in the variants also as Heelhook
- Mount Hook, mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica
- Hook Island, island off the coast of Queensland, Australia
- Hook Island (Biscoe Islands), island in the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica
Hook is the name of the following places:
- Hook (Hart) in Hampshire, England
- Hook (Fareham) in Hampshire, England
- Hook (New Zealand) in New Zealand
- Hook (peninsula) in County Wexford in Ireland
Hook is the family name of the following people:
- Antony Hook (* 1980), British barrister and politician, MEP
- Bill Hook (1925-2010), chess player of the British Virgin Islands
- Christian Hook (* 1967), German car racing driver
- Elias Hook (1805-1881), American organ builder, brother of George Hook
- Enos Hook (1804-1841), American politician
- Frank Eugene Hook (1893-1982), American politician
- George Hook (1807-1880), American organ builder, brother of Elias Hook
- Harvey Hook (1935-2011), bobsledder from the American Virgin Islands.
- James Hook (composer) (1746-1827), English composer and organist
- James Hook (rugby player) (* 1985), Welsh rugby player.
- Jay Hook (* 1936), US-American baseball player
- Larue Van Hook (1877-1953), US-American classical philologist
- Peter Hook (* 1956), bassist of the bands Joy Division and New Order
- Ross Hook (1917-1996), British Anglican bishop
- Sidney Hook (1902-1989), US-American philosopher and publicist
- Theodore Hook (1788-1841), British journalist and novelist
- Ursula Hook (* 1957), German track and field athlete
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