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 (1936–1986), American musician and saxophonist
  • Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), American jazz pianist and composer

Places

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

Arts and entertainment

Characters

  • Monk (character class), a character class in a number of role-playing tabletop and video games
    • Monk (Dungeons & Dragons), a playable character in most versions of Dungeons & Dragons
  • Monk (comics), a vampire-werewolf hybrid and nemesis of Batman
  • The 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
  • the title character of Monk Little Dog, an animated series for children on CITV
  • Adrian Monk, the protagonist of the television series Monk
  • William Monk, a Victorian-era detective

Films

  • The Monk (1969 film), a made-for-television movie
  • The Monk (1972 film), a French-German-Italian-Belgian film
  • The Monk (1975 film), a Hong Kong martial arts 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 (TV series), a television show about an obsessive-compulsive detective
    • Monk (soundtrack), a 2004 soundtrack of the show

In print

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

Flora and fauna

  • Amauris tartarea, a butterfly also known as the monk or dusky friar
  • Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus), a bird of South America
  • Monk seal, any of several species of the tribe Monachini
  • Siraitia grosvenorii, a vine which bears a fruit known as monk fruit

Other uses

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

See also

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