Monk (disambiguation)

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A monk is a person who practices a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle.

Monk may also refer to:

People

• Monk (nickname)
• Monk (surname)
• Monk Gibbon (1896–1987), Irish poet and author
• Monk Higgins, American musician and saxophonist Milton Bland (1936–1986)

Places

• Monk (Montreal Metro), a metro station in Montreal, Québec
• Monk Islands, South Orkney Islands, off Antarctica
• Monk's House, 18th century English cottage

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Monk (character class), a character class in Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop and computer role-playing games
• Monk (comics), a vampire-werewolf hybrid and nemesis of Batman
• Monk (Doctor Who), a recurring villain in the Doctor Who television series and related media
• Andrew Blodgett Mayfair ("Monk"), an adventurer associate of Doc Savage's
• Adrian Monk, the title character of the television series Monk
• William Monk, a fictional Victorian era detective
• Marty "Monk" Malone, a character from the video game The Godfather: The Game

Film

• The Monk (1969 film), a 1969 made-for-television movie
• The Monk (1972 film), a French-German-Italian-Belgian film
• The Monk (1990 film), a British film
• The Monk (2011 film), a French film
• The Monk (2015 film), a Chinese film

Music

• Monk (band), led by former Over the Rhine guitarist Ric Hordinski
• Monk (1954 album), by Thelonious Monk
• Monk (1964 album), by Thelonious Monk

Television

• Monk (CITV), an animated series for children on CITV
• Monk (TV series), a television show about an obsessive-compulsive detective
  • Monk (soundtrack), official soundtrack of the show

Written works

• The Monk (1796), a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis
• Monk Magazine, a magazine featuring the adventures of Jim Crotty and Michael Lane

Flora and fauna

• Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus), a bird of South America
• Monk seal, several species of the genus Monachus

Other uses

• Monk shoe, a men's shoe with a buckled strap

See also

• Monks (disambiguation)
• Monck (disambiguation)
• SS Major General Wilhelm Mohnke (1911–2001), one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard "Berlin"