Cockcroft or Cockroft is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Barry Cockcroft
Barry Cockcroft (4 October 1932 – 4 February 2001) was a UK television documentary director, writer and producer. He is best known for his documentary ''Too Long A Winter'' about the spinster Hannah Hauxwell who lived alone on a remote farm ...
(1933–2001), British television documentary director
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Barry Cockcroft (dentist)
Barry Michael Cockcroft CBE was the Chief Dental Officer (CDO) for England.
Early life
Cockcroft qualified from the Dental School at the University of Birmingham in 1973.
Career
Cockcroft was a dentist working in Rugby in general practice for 2 ...
, Chief Dental Officer (CDO) for England
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Bill Cockcroft
William Cockcroft DL is the former Chief Scout Commissioner of England and was director of the 21st World Scout Jamboree.
Cockcroft graduated from The Judd School in 1965, and the University of South Bank in 1970, majoring in Quantity Surve ...
, former Chief Scout Commissioner of England
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Colin Cockcroft
Lieutenant General Dr. Colin Royden Cockcroft , MBChB (4 October 19175 December 1987) was a South African military commander.
A medical doctor, he served as Surgeon General of the South African Medical Service from 1969 to 1977.
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(1918–1987), South African military commander
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Cockcroft-Gault formula
Renal functions include maintaining an acid–base balance; regulating fluid balance; regulating sodium, potassium, and other electrolytes; clearing toxins; absorption of glucose, amino acids, and other small molecules; regulation of blood p ...
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George Cockcroft
George Powers Cockcroft (November 15, 1932 – November 6, 2020), widely known by the pen name Luke Rhinehart, was an American novelist, screenwriter, and nonfiction writer. He is best known for his 1971 novel ''The Dice Man,'' the story of a psyc ...
(born 1932), American novelist who published under the name Luke Rhinehart
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John Douglas Cockcroft
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclea ...
(1897–1967), British nuclear physicist
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Cockcroft Institute
The Cockcroft Institute is an international centre for Accelerator Science and Technology (AST) in the UK. It was proposed in September 2003 and officially opened in September 2006. It is a joint venture of Lancaster University, the University ...
, British research centre for accelerator physics named after Sir John D. Cockcroft
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Cockcroft, lunar crater named after Sir John D. Cockcroft
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John Hoyle Cockcroft (born 1934), British Conservative politician
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Shamshad Cockcroft
Shamshad Cockcroft is a British physiologist and a professor of cell physiology in the Neuro, Physiology and Pharmacology Division of Biosciences at the UCL. She has been a member of The Physiological Society since 1989.
Education
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, British physiologist
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Vic Cockcroft
Victor Herbert Cockcroft (born 25 February 1941) is an English retired professional footballer who played in the Football League for Northampton Town and Rochdale
Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothil ...
(born 1941), English footballer
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Wilfred Cockcroft
Sir Wilfred Halliday Cockcroft (7 June 1923 – 27 September 1999) was an eminent mathematics educator from the University of Hull.
Early life
He attended Keighley Boys' Grammar School, now called Beckfoot Oakbank, and studied Mathematics at Bal ...
(1923–1999), English mathematician
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Don Cockroft
Donald Lee Cockroft (born February 6, 1945) is a former American football punter and placekicker who played 13 seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns. He has the third most career points for a Brown behind fellow kicker ...
(born 1945), American football player
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Hannah Cockroft (born 1992), British athlete, gold medallist at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics
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Joe Cockroft
Joseph Cockroft (20 June 1911 – February 1994) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Rotherham United, West Ham United, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United.
Cockroft played for Yorkshire Paper Mills, Barnsley Ol ...
(1911–1994), English footballer
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Lana Coc-Kroft (born 1967), New Zealand television and radio personality
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Peter Cockroft
Peter Cockroft (born 13 April 1957 in Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire) is an English weather forecaster. Cockroft joined the BBC in 1991 as one of the presenters of the national weather forecasts; in 2002, he became the main weather prese ...
(born 1957), British weather forecaster
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Josh Cockroft (born 1989), Oklahoma Representative
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