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A monk is a person who practices a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle.
Monk may also refer to:
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People
- 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
- 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, Canadian photographer
- Marcus Monk (born 1986), NFL football player
- 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
- Ray Monk (born 1957), professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton
- Robert A. G. Monks, 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)
- William Henry Monk (1823–1889), English hymn tune writer
- Monk Eastman (1875–1920), founder and leader of a powerful New York City gang
In writing
- The Monk, a 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Andrew Blodgett Mayfair ("Monk"), an adventurer associate of Doc Savage
- Monk Magazine, a magazine featuring the adventures of Jim Crotty and Michael Lane
- Monk (comics), a vampire-werewolf hybrid and nemesis of Batman
- Monks (Oliver Twist), a character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- William Monk, a fictional Victorian era detective
In entertainment
- Monk (1954 album) by Thelonious Monk from Prestige
- Monk (1964 album) by Thelonious Monk from Columbia
- Monk (TV series), a television show about an obsessive-compulsive detective
- Adrian Monk, the titular character
- Monk (soundtrack), official soundtrack of the show
- The Monks, a 1960s rock band
- The Monks (UK band), a 1970s punk band
- Monk (band), led by former Over the Rhine guitarist Ric Hordinski
- Monk (character class), a character class in Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop and computer role-playing games
- Marty "Monk" Malone, a character from the video game The Godfather: The Game
- Monk (CITV), an animated series for children on CITV
- The Monk (1969 film), a 1969 made-for-television movie
- The Monk (1990 film), a British film
- The Monk (2011 film), a French film
Other
- Monk Parakeet
- Monk (Montreal Metro), a metro station in Montreal, Québec
- Monk shoe, a men's shoe with a buckled strap
- Monk (Dungeons & Dragons), a playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game
See also
- Monks Mound, the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica
- Monk's House, 18th century English cottage
- George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608–1670), British general and politician in the Commonwealth and Restoration period
- SS Major General Wilhelm Mohnke (1911–2001), one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard "Berlin"
- Gerry Hutch ("The Monk", born 1963), Irish ex-gangster
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