Monk (disambiguation)
A monk is a person who practices a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle.
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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
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 Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop and computer role-playing games
- 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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