Cocks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Charles Cocks, British 19th century wine enthusiast, author of ''

Cocks & Féret ''Cocks & Féret'' or simply ''Féret'', is the colloquial name of a Bordeaux wine directory originally created by Charles Cocks and Michel-Édouard Féret in 1846, which was published under the name ''Bordeaux, its Wines and the Claret Country'' ...

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Clifford Cocks Clifford Christopher Cocks (born 28 December 1950) is a British mathematician and cryptographer. In 1973, while working at the United Kingdom Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), he invented a public-key cryptography algorithm equiv ...

(born 1950), British cryptographer *

Jay Cocks John C. "Jay" Cocks Jr. (born January 12, 1944) is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is a graduate of Kenyon College.Richard Cocks Richard Cocks (1566–1624) was the head of the British East India Company trading post in Hirado, Japan, between 1613 and 1623, from its creation, and lasting to its closure due to bankruptcy. He was baptised on 20 January 1565 at St Chad's, Se ...

, English trader in Japan in the seventeenth century *

Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers (29 June 1725 – 30 January 1806), known as Sir Charles Cocks, 1st Baronet, from 1772 to 1784, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1747 to 1784. Life Cocks was the son of John Cocks and ...

(1725–1806) * John Sommers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers (1760–1841) * John Somers Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers (1788–1852) * Charles Somers Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers (1819–1883) *

Philip Reginald Cocks, 5th Baron Somers Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularize ...

(1815–1899) * Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers (1887–1944) * Arthur Percy Somers Cocks, 7th Baron Somers (1864–1953) * John Patrick Somers Cocks, 8th Baron Somers (1907–1995) * Philip Sebastian Somers-Cocks, 9th Baron Somers (born 1948)

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