Albert Stanburrough Cook (March 6, 1853 – September 1, 1927) was an American philologist, literary critic, and scholar of Old English.

[3] He began working as a mathematics tutor at sixteen and was offered chemistry professorship in Fukui, Japan before entering college, which he declined.

[4] He returned to the United States for two years as an associate in English at Johns Hopkins University,[6] then in 1881 he spent time in London with phoneticist Henry Sweet studying manuscripts of Cynewulf and the Old Northumbrian Gospels at the British Museum.

In contrast to the prejudices of many of his peers, a number of female PhD students - including Elizabeth Deering Hanscom, Martha Anstice Harris, Laura Lockwood, Mary Augusta Scott, and Caroline Louisa White - studied under Cook at a time when such students were rare.

[7] Cook's best-known scholarly work is in Old English and in poetics, fields in which he produced over three hundred publications.