Cockcroft

Cockcroft or Cockroft is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Cockcroft:

• Barry Cockcroft (1933–2001), British television documentary director
• Barry Cockcroft (dentist), Chief Dental Officer (CDO) for England
• Bill Cockcroft, former Chief Scout Commissioner of England
• Colin Cockcroft (1918–1987), South African military commander
• D. W. Cockcroft, see Cockcroft-Gault formula
• George Cockcroft (born 1932), U.S. novelist who published under the name "Luke Rhinehart"
• Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (1897–1967), British nuclear physicist
  • The Cockcroft Institute, a UK research centre for accelerator physics named after Sir John D. Cockcroft
  • Cockcroft, a lunar crater named after Sir John D. Cockcroft
• John Hoyle Cockcroft (born 1934), British Conservative politician
• Wilfred Cockcroft (1923–1999), English mathematician

Cockroft:

• Don Cockroft American football player
• Hannah Cockroft (born 1992), British athlete, won Paralympics gold medal
• Joe Cockroft English footballer
• Lana Coc-Kroft New Zealand television personality
• Peter Cockroft British weather forecaster