Monk (surname) explained
Monk is an English surname.
Notable people with the surname "Monk" include
- Monk (Berkshire cricketer), English professional cricketer in the 1790s
- Allan Monk (born 1942), Canadian baritone
- Art Monk (born 1957), American football player who played in the 1980s and 1990s
- Cyril Monk (1882–1970), Australian violinist
- Cyrus Monk (born 1996), Australian cyclist
- Debra Monk (born 1949), American actress, singer, and writer
- Elizabeth Monk (1898–1980), Canadian lawyer and city councillor
- Frank Monk (1886–1962), English footballer (Southampton, Glossop, Fulham)
- Frederick Debartzch Monk (1856–1914), Canadian lawyer and politician
- Garry Monk (born 1979), English footballer
- George William Monk (1838–?), a Canadian politician
- Geraldine Monk (born 1952), British poet
- Hank Monk, legendary stagecoach driver in the American west
- Henry Wentworth Monk (1827–1896), millenarian prophet and early Zionist
- Ian Monk (born 1960), British writer and translator
- Jacob Monk (born 2001), American football player
- James Henry Monk (1784–1856), English divine and classical scholar
- Karyn Monk, historical romance novelist
- Lorraine Monk (1922–2020), Canadian photographer
- Malik Monk (born 1998), American basketball player
- Marcus Monk (born 1986), NFL football player; brother of Malik
- Maria Monk (1816–1849), supposed author of The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed
- Meredith Monk (born 1942), American composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer
- Quincy Monk (1979–2015), was an American football linebacker
- Ray Monk (born 1957), professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton
- Robert W. Monk (1866–1924), American physician and politician
- Robert A. G. Monks (b. 1933), American entrepreneur, politician, and corporate activist
- Scott Monk (born 1974), Australian author
- Sophie Monk (born 1979), Australian pop singer, actress and occasional model
- Thelonious Monk (1917–1982), jazz pianist and composer
- T. S. Monk (born 1949), his son, American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader
- Wendy Monk (1915–2000); Wendy Trewin, English author
- William Monk (artist) (1863–1937), British etcher, wood-engraver and painter
- William Henry Monk (1823–1889), English hymn tune writer
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