title: Stoker
text: # Stoker
  
  Stoker may refer to:
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * "The Stoker", a 1927 short story by Franz Kafka
  * The Stoker (1932 film), an American drama/romance film directed by Chester M. Franklin
  * The Stoker (1935 film) , a British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce
  * A Stoker, a 2010 Russian crime film
  * Stoker (film), a 2013 American psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook
  * "Stoker" (Sliders), a television episode
  * The title character of Stoker the Broker (1960–1985) a US comic strip
  * Bram Stoker Award for horror writing
  * Stoker (band), a South African hard rock band
  
  ## People
  
  * Stoker (surname), a list of notable people with the surname
     * Bram Stoker (1847-1912), Irish author, wrote Dracula
  * Walter Stoker Edwards (1900-1964), British politician
  * Andy "Stoker" Growcott (born 1959), a former member of the band Dexys Midnight Runners
  * 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, i.e. the one who delivers power to the machine
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Fire iron, used for shifting burning coals in a hearth
  * Mechanical stoker, a machine which replaces the human occupation
  * Cleveland Stokers (1967–68), an American soccer team
  * Stoker Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
  * The Stoker Company, a pesticide producer and applier in Imperial County, California
  