Cookman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Brian Cookman (1946–2005), English musician and composer, magazine designer and artist, and tai chi practitioner Donald Cookman, Democratic politician who served in the West Virginia Senate George Cookman Sturgiss (1842–1925), lawyer and Republican politician from West Virginia George Grimston Cookman (1801–1841), British-born American Methodist clergyman who served as Chaplain of the Senate John Cookman (1909–1982), American ice hockey player who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics Joseph Cookman (1899–1944), American journalist, writer, critic and a founder of The Newspaper Guild William Holmes Cookman (1867–1950), American architect who was an engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad
See also Bethune–Cookman University, private historically black university in Daytona Beach, Florida Bethune–Cookman Wildcats, college sports teams at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida List of Bethune-Cookman University alumni Darnell-Cookman School of the Medical Arts, located in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, USA, across from Shands Hospital