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
 * Donald William Cockcroft (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

Cockroft:
 * Don Cockroft (born 1945), American football player
 * Hannah Cockroft (born 1992), British athlete, gold medallist at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics
 * Joe Cockroft (1911–1994), English footballer
 * Lana Coc-Kroft (born 1967), New Zealand television and radio personality
 * Peter Cockroft (born 1957), British weather forecaster
 * Josh Cockroft (born 1989), Oklahoma Representative