Ashcroft may refer to:

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Ashcroft, British Columbia Ashcroft ( 2016 population: 1,558) is a village in the Thompson Country of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is downstream from the west end of Kamloops Lake, at the confluence of the Bonaparte and Thompson Rivers, and is in the ...

, a village in Canada **Ashcroft House in

Bagpath Bagpath is a hamlet in Gloucestershire, England, in the Ozleworth valley south of the village of Kingscote and forming part of Kingscote civil parish. The hamlet consists of two separate settlements of Bagpath and Newington Bagpath, although ...

, Gloucestershire, England—eponym of the Canadian village *

Ashcroft, New South Wales Ashcroft is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 35 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool. History The suburb was formed as part of the Hou ...

, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Ashcroft, Colorado, a former U.S. mining town, south of Aspen * Ashcroft (Geneva, New York), a historic house * Ashcroft Technology Academy, a secondary school in London, UK

People

* Catherine Ashcroft, English musician (Irish Folk) * Charlie Ashcroft, English footballer *

Chloe Ashcroft Chloe Ashcroft (born 7 July 1942) is an actor and former presenter of several BBC children's TV programmes, including '' Play School'', '' Play Away'', ''Hokey-Cokey'', ''Excuse Me'', ''All Change'', and ''Pie in the Sky''. She also appeared in ...

, British television presenter *

Christina Ashcroft Christina Ashcroft (born 28 June, 1964) is a Canadian sport shooter. Ashcroft participated in the Summer Olympics in 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984, 1988 Summer Olympics, 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992. She participated at the 1994 Commonwealt ...

(born 1964), Canadian sport shooter *

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (born 11 June 1929) is a British occult author, third generation psychic, and esoteric practitioner. As an associate of Walter Ernest Butler, she succeeded him as Director of Studies of the Servants of the Light. Early ...

, British occultist *

Edgar Arthur Ashcroft Edgar Arthur Ashcroft (5 September 1864 – 24 August 1938) was an electrical engineer who developed an electrolytic process for extracting zinc metal from its sulphides. History Ashcroft was born in Sunderland, England, a son of George Ashcroft ...

(1864–1938), invented zinc extraction process in Australia * Ernest Ashcroft (b. 1925), English professional rugby league footballer *

Lee Ashcroft Lee Ashcroft (born 7 September 1972) is an English former footballer and football manager who manages North West Counties Premier Division club Longridge Town. An England under-21 international, the striker began his playing career at Pre ...

, English footballer *

Jay Ashcroft John Robert "Jay" Ashcroft (born July 12, 1973) is an American attorney, engineer and politician serving as the 40th and current Secretary of State of Missouri since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he is the son of former U.S. Attorney Ge ...

, American politician * Jimmy Ashcroft, English footballer *

John Ashcroft John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist and former politician who served as the 79th U.S. Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration from 2001 to 2005. A former U.S. Senator from Missouri and the 50th ...

, the 79th Attorney General of the United States under George W. Bush (2001–2005) *

Ken Ashcroft Ken Ashcroft is an Australian former rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular f ...

, Australian rugby league footballer *

Marcus Ashcroft Marcus Ashcroft (born 25 September 1971) is a former professional Australian rules footballer. He played 318 games for the Brisbane Bears/Lions and is currently on the coaching panel of the Gold Coast Football Club. The Marcus Ashcroft Medal, ...

, Australian rules footballer *

Michael Arbuthnot Ashcroft Michael Arbuthnot Ashcroft (1920–1949) was a code breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, working in Hut 8 under Alan Turing. Early life Ashcroft was born in 1920 to parents of German descent. He was the fourth child of Frederick N ...

, British codebreaker in Hut 8 during WW2 *

Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, (born 4 March 1946) is a British-Belizean businessman, pollster and politician. He is a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Ashcroft founded Michael A. Ashcroft Associates in 1972 and is ...

, British businessman and member of the House of Lords *

Neil Ashcroft Neil William Ashcroft (27 November 1938 – 15 March 2021) was a British solid-state physicist. Early life and education Ashcroft was born in London on 27 November 1938, and migrated to New Zealand in 1947. He was educated at Hutt Valley High Sc ...

(1938–2021), condensed matter physicist *

Peggy Ashcroft Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991), known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than 60 years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was deter ...

, English actress *

Ray Ashcroft Raymond John Ashcroft (born 28 June 1952) is an English television actor. He is best known for his roles as DS Geoff Daly in ''The Bill'' from 1996 to 2000, and Ronnie Marsden on ''Emmerdale'' from March to December 2003. He started in rep th ...

, English actor *

Richard Ashcroft Richard Paul Ashcroft (born 11 September 1971) is an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and occasional rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band The Verve from their formation in 1990 until their original split in 1999. So ...

, English musician, frontman for The Verve *

Stella Ashcroft Stella Ashcroft (born 27 July 2002) is an artistic gymnast from New Zealand, specialising in the vault, beam and floor events. In 2018, she competed at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia. Ashcroft is from Christchurch, New Zeal ...

(born 2002), New Zealand gymnast * William Ashcroft, English artist

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