# Stoker

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**Stoker** may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

- "[The Stoker](/source/The_Stoker)", a 1927 short story by Franz Kafka
- [*The Stoker* (1932 film)](/source/The_Stoker_(1932_film)), an American drama/romance film directed by Chester M. Franklin
- [*The Stoker* (1935 film)](/source/The_Stoker_(1935_film)), a British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce
- *[A Stoker](/source/A_Stoker)*, a 2010 Russian crime film
- [*Stoker* (film)](/source/Stoker_(film)), a 2013 American psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook
- ["Stoker" (*Sliders*)](/source/Stoker_(Sliders)), a television episode
- The title character of *[Stoker the Broker](/source/Stoker_the_Broker)* (1960–1985) a US comic strip
- [Bram Stoker Award](/source/Bram_Stoker_Award) for horror writing
- [Stoker (band)](/source/Stoker_(band)), a South African hard rock band

## People

- [Stoker (surname)](/source/Stoker_(surname)), a list of notable people with the surname - [Bram Stoker](/source/Bram_Stoker) (1847-1912), Irish author, wrote *Dracula*
- Walter [Stoker Edwards](/source/Stoker_Edwards) (1900-1964), British politician
- [Andy "Stoker" Growcott](/source/Andy_%22Stoker%22_Growcott) (born 1959), a former member of the band Dexys Midnight Runners
- [Stoker (occupation)](/source/Stoker_(occupation)), the person who tends the fire for the running of a steam engine
- The person on the rear seat of a [tandem bicycle](/source/Tandem_bicycle), i.e. the one who delivers power to the machine

## Other uses

- [Fire iron](/source/Fire_iron), used for shifting burning coals in a hearth
- [Mechanical stoker](/source/Mechanical_stoker), a machine which replaces the human occupation
- [Cleveland Stokers](/source/Cleveland_Stokers) (1967–68), an American soccer team
- [Stoker Island](/source/Stoker_Island), South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
- [The Stoker Company](/source/The_Stoker_Company), a pesticide producer and applier in Imperial County, California

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