Monk is an English surname.

Notable people with the surname:

• Monk (Berkshire cricketer), English professional cricketer in the 1790s
• Allan Monk (born 1942), Canadian baritone
• Art Monk (born 1957), American football player
• Cyril Monk (1882–1970), Australian violinist
• Cyrus Monk (born 1996), Australian cyclist
• Dave Monk (1952 or 1953–2025), British television and radio broadcaster
• Debra Monk (born 1949), American actress, singer, and writer
• Elizabeth Monk (1898–1980), Canadian lawyer and city councillor
• Frank Monk (1886–1962), English footballer
• Frederick Debartzch Monk (1856–1914), Canadian lawyer and politician
• Garry Monk (born 1979), English footballer
• George William Monk (1838–1917), Canadian politician
• Geraldine Monk (born 1952), British poet
• Hank Monk (1826–1883), American stagecoach driver
• Henry Wentworth Monk (1827–1896), millenarian prophet and early Zionist
• Ian Monk (1960–2025), 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
• Laura Monk, French mathematician
• 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
• Nicholas Monck (1610–1661), Bishop of Hereford and Provost of Eton College
• Nicholas A. M. Monk, British mathematician
• Nicholas Monk (literary critic), British literary critic
• Nick Monk, a member of Spiders (British band)
• 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
• Scott Monk (born 1974), Australian author
• Sophie Monk (born 1979), Australian pop singer, actress and occasional model
• T. S. Monk (born 1949), American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, son of Thelonious Monk
• Thelonious Monk (1917–1982), American jazz pianist and composer
• Wendy Monk (1915–2000), English author
• William Monk (artist) (1863–1937), British etcher, wood-engraver and painter
• William Henry Monk (1823–1889), English hymn tune writer

See also

• Monks (surname), people with this surname

Surname list

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