Monk (nickname) explained
As a nickname, Monk or The Monk may refer to:
Sports
- Monk Cline (1858–1916), American baseball player
- Monk Dubiel (1918 - 1969), American baseball pitcher
- Mark "Monk" Hubbard (1970–2018), American skateboarder, skatepark builder, artist, and founder of Grindline Skateparks
- Antonin Magne (1904 - 1983), French cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1931 and 1934, nicknamed "The Monk"
- Monk McDonald (1901 - 1977), American college athlete, head basketball coach and urologist
- Jim "Monk" Moscrip (1913–1980), American gridiron football player
- Monk Sherlock (1904 - 1985), American baseball player
- Claude Simons Sr. (1887 - 1943), American sports coach at Tulane University
- Claude Simons Jr. (1914 - 1975), American college athlete and football, basketball and baseball coach at Tulane University, known as "Little Monk"
- Monk Williams (1945 - 2003), American gridiron football player
Other
- Monk Boudreaux (born 1941), American singer and R&B musician
- Monk Eastman (1875–1920), founder and leader of a powerful New York City gang
- Gerry Hutch (born 1963), Irish bank robber known as "The Monk"
- Edward Malloy (born 1941), 16th president of the University of Notre Dame
- Monk Montgomery (1921 - 1982), American jazz bassist
