Rooks

Rooks

Rooks can refer to:

People:
* Albert Harold Rooks (29 December 1891 - 1 March 1942), Captain in U.S. Navy, World War II Medal of Honor recipient

Places:
* Counties:
** Rooks County, Kansas

* Cities and towns:
** Rooks, North Carolina
** Rooks Creek, Illinois

Things:
* USS Rooks (DD-804) (1944-1962), destroyer, World War II and Korea, named for Cpt. Albert Rooks

See also
* Rook, a disambiguation page


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