Cockcroft Explained
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
- (1946–), Canadian asthmologist; see Cockcroft-Gault formula
- George Cockcroft (born 1932), American novelist who published under the name Luke Rhinehart
- Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (1897–1967), British nuclear physicist
- The Cockcroft Institute, British research centre for accelerator physics named after Sir John D. Cockcroft
- Cockcroft, lunar crater named after Sir John D. Cockcroft
- John Hoyle Cockcroft (born 1934), British Conservative politician
- Shamshad Cockcroft, British physiologist
- Vic Cockcroft (born 1941), English footballer
- Wilfred Cockcroft (1923–1999), English mathematician
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