Corky Explained

Gender:	Unisex, primarily male
Variant Forms:	Corki, Corkie, Korki, Korkie, Korky
Language origin:	English, Irish
Meaning:	"hill hollow"

Corky means cork-like. It is an English and Irish unisex name that also serves as a nickname for Courtney. It may also refer to:

People

Sportspeople

• Corky Ballas (born 1960), American competitive ballroom dancer
• Corky or Corkie Blow (1877–1938), English footballer
• Corky Calhoun (born 1950), American former National Basketball Association player
• Corky Carroll (born 1947), American surfer
• Dominic Cork (born 1971), English cricketer, nicknamed Corky
• Corky de Graauw (born 1951), Dutch ice hockey player
• Corky Devlin (1931–1995), American National Basketball Association player
• Corky McMillin (1925–2005), American off-road desert racer and land developer
• Corky Miller (born 1976), American Major League Baseball player
• Corky Nelson (1939–2014), American high school and college football player and coach
• Corky Palmer (born 1954), American college baseball coach
• Corky Rogers (1943–2020), American high school football coach
• Corky Valentine (1929–2005), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Claire Corky (born 1984), New Zealand rugby union player

Musicians

• Corky Cornelius (1914–1943), American jazz trumpeter
• Corky Hale (born 1936), American jazz musician
• Corky James (born 1954), American guitarist and bassist
• Corky Jones, pseudonym used by Buck Owens (1929–2006) for his rockabilly music
• Corky Laing (born 1948), Canadian rock drummer
• Corky Siegel (born 1943), American musician and composer

Artists

• Corwin Clairmont (born 1946), Native American artist
• Corky Lee (1947–2021), American photographer
• Corky Quakenbush, American stop motion filmmaker
• Corky Trinidad (1939–2009), Philippine-American editorial cartoonist and comics artist

Politicians and activists

• Corky Evans (born 1948), Canadian politician
• Rodolfo Gonzales (1928–2005), Chicano boxer, poet and political activist
• Corky Peterson, Canadian politician and trapper

Other professions

• Charles A. Marvin (1929–2003), American judge and district attorney; see Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame
• Corky McCorquodale (1904–1968), American poker player
• Corin Nemec (born 1971), American actor
• Claude Nowell (1944–2008), also known as "Corky King" or "Corky Ra", American founder of Summum, a philosophical and religious organization
• Gaetano Vastola (gangster) (born 1928), American mobster

Fictional characters

• Corky Caporale, a character in the television series The Sopranos
• James "Corky" Corcoran, a character in the "Ukridge" stories of P. G. Wodehouse
• Corky, in the 1996 film Bound
• Corky, in the animated television series The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
• Corky Romano, in the 2001 film Corky Romano
• Corky Sherwood, in the television series Murphy Brown
• Corky Shimatzu, a character in the animated television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• Corky St. Clair, in the 1996 film Waiting for Guffman
• Charles "Corky" Thatcher, in the television series Life Goes On
• Corky Wallet, in the comic strip Gasoline Alley
• Corky Withers, in the 1976 Goldman novel Magic
• Corky the Hornet, the mascot of the Emporia State University sports teams
• Corky, one of Jenny's friends in the Disney film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
• Corky, a parrot in the BBC soap opera EastEnders

Other uses

• Corky (film), a 1972 stock car film starring Robert Blake
• Corky (orca) (born 1965), the longest living orca in captivity
• Alternative spelling of Corkey, a village in Northern Ireland
• Cricket ball, commonly referred to as a corky
• Charley horse, a leg cramp, called a corky in Australia

See also

• Korky the Cat, a British comics character
• Corky's, a restaurant in Los Angeles
• Korki Buchek, fictional musician from the movie Borat
• Cokie Roberts, journalist and author