Oke (name)

Oke is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

• Alan Oke, British tenor
• Assogba Oké (1903–1973), Beninese politician and diplomat
• Charles Cunningham Oke (1894-1967), 2nd. Lieut. British Army, Newfoundland Infantry, 1st. Battalion, one of the "Blue Putees" of the First Five Hundred, deployed to Gallipoli in World War I, awarded riband with 1914-1915 star, War Pensions Officer, Superintendent of the Main School of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
• Elizabeth Baker Oke (1826-1908), trained at The Home and Colonial School Society (Gray’s Inn Road, London), served as an Anglican missionary (1851-1880) in Moose Factory, Hudson's Bay (Ont.) and supervised the girls school, married John Horden (May 28, 1851), who became the first Anglican Bishop of Moosonee (December 15, 1872)
• Femi Oke (born 1966), British television presenter and journalist
• Isaiah Oke (born c. 1940), Nigerian shaman
• Janette Oke (born 1935), Canadian author
• John Beverly Oke (1928–2004), American astronomer and academic
• Leslie Warner Oke (born 1877), Canadian farmer and political figure
• Robert Oke (1794-1870), first Chief Inspector for the Newfoundland Lighthouse Service (1855 to 1870), published a 64-page book of early lighthouse designs in 1861, installed the first light mechanism (from Bell Rock) at the Cape Bonavista lighthouse in 1842, installed the famous Isle of May light mechanism at the Cape Pine lighthouse in 1850, which was later moved to Harbor Grace Island and finally to Cape Bonavista
• Robert "Bob" Oke, served in the U.S. Navy for 26 years, elected to the Senate in 1990 and re-elected three times (Washington State), recognized for battling the tobacco industry
• Scott Oke (born 1993), Canadian ice hockey player
• Tosin Oke (born 1980), Nigerian track and field athlete
• William Austin Oke, Esq. (1857-1923), Owner, Munn & Oke, publisher of The Harbor Grace Standard newspaper, Liberal member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly (elected 1897, 1900, 1904), then Judge of the District Court, Harbour Grace, Newfoundland

Given name:

• Oke Akpoveta (born 1991), Nigerian professional footballer
• Oke Smith (born 1894), professional American football player
• Elizabeth Oke Buckland Gordon, author, daughter of William Buckland, D.D.,F.R.S, Dean of Westminster, twice president of the Geological Society of London, and first president of the British Association