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Corky means cork-like. It may also refer to:
- Corky (film), 1972 stock car film starring Robert Blake
- Corky (killer whale), born 1965
- Cricket ball, commonly referred to as a corky
- Charley horse, called a corky in Australia
People
- Sportspeople
- Corky Ballas (born 1960), retired competitive ballroom dancer
- Corky or Corkie Blow (1877-1938), English footballer
- Corky Calhoun (born 1950), American former National Basketball Association player
- Corky Carroll (born 1947), American surfer
- Dominic Cork (born 1971), English former cricketer
- Corky de Graauw (born 1951), Dutch former ice hockey player
- Walter Devlin (1931-1995), American National Basketball Association player
- Corky McMillin (1925-2005), off-road desert racer and land developer
- Corky Miller (born 1976), American former Major League Baseball player
- Corky Nelson (1939-2014), American high school and college football player and coach
- Corky Palmer (born 1954), American retired college baseball coach
- Corky Rogers (born 1943), American high school football coach
- Corky Valentine (1929-2005), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Claire Corky (born 1984), New Zealand former rugby union player
- Musicians
- Corky Cornelius (1914-1943), American jazz trumpeter
- Corky Hale (born 1936), American jazz musician
- Corky James (born 1954), American guitarist and bassist
- Corky Jones, pseudonym used by Buck Owens (1929-2006) for his rockabilly music
- Corky Laing (born 1948), Canadian rock drummer
- Corky Siegel (born 1943), American musician and composer
- Artists
- Corwin Clairmont (born 1946), Native American artist
- Corky Lee (born 1948), American photographer
- Corky Quakenbush, stop motion filmmaker
- Corky Trinidad (1939-2009), Philippine-American editorial cartoonist and comics artist
- Politicians and activists
- Corky Evans (born 1948), Canadian politician
- Rodolfo Gonzales (1928-2005), Chicano boxer, poet and political activist
- Corky Peterson, Canadian politician and trapper
- Other
- Corky McCorquodale (1904–1968), professional poker player
- Corin Nemec (born 1971), American actor
- Claude Nowell (1944-2008), also known as "Corky King" or "Corky Ra", founder of Summum, a philosophical and religious organization
- Bill Richmond (director) (born 1958), American producer and director
- Gaetano Vastola (gangster) (born 1928), American mobster
Fictional characters
- Corky Sherwood, on the television show Murphy Brown
- Charles "Corky" Thatcher, on the television show Life Goes On played by Chris Burke (actor)
- Corky Caporale, Corky Ianucci, and Corky DiGioia, in the television series The Sopranos
- a title character of The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky, Australian animated television program
- Corky, one of the main characters in Bound (1996 film)
- the title character of the film Corky Romano
- Corky St. Clair, in the mockumentary Waiting for Guffman
- James "Corky" Corcoran, in the "Ukridge" stories of P. G. Wodehouse
- Corky the Hornet, the mascot of the Emporia State University sports teams
- Corky Wallet, a character in the long-running Gasoline Alley comic strip
See also
- Corky's, a restaurant in Los Angeles
- Korki Buchek, fictional musician from the movie Borat
- Cokie Roberts, journalist and author
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