Monk (surname)

Monk is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:

• 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
• Debra Monk (born 1949), American actress, singer, and writer
• 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
• 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 Henry Monk (1823–1889), English hymn tune writer