Hocking is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Amanda Hocking Amanda Hocking (born July 12, 1984) is an American writer of paranormal romance young adult fiction. Early life Hocking was born and raised in Austin, Minnesota. After high school, she studied Human Services while working in a group home for pe ...

, American writer * Anne Hocking, English crime writer * Brian Hocking (1914–1974), Canadian entomologist *

Clint Hocking Clint Hocking (born 18 September 1972) is a Canadian video game designer and director. He has primarily worked at the Canadian divisions of Ubisoft, where he developed three titles, and briefly worked at LucasArts, Valve, and Amazon Game Studi ...

(born 1972), Canadian video game director and designer *

Garry Hocking Garry Andrew Hocking (born 8 October 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Tough and skilled in equal measure, Hocking was an integral part of Geelong's ...

, Australian rules football player for the Geelong Football Club *

Gary Hocking Gary Stuart Hocking MBE (30 September 1937 – 21 December 1962) was a Grand Prix motorcycle racing world champion who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s based in Rhodesia. Early life Hocking was born in Caerleon, near Newport, ...

, Welsh motorcycle racer *

Heath Hocking Heath Hocking (born 27 December 1987) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from Mooroolbark, he was drafted by Essendon with the 20th ...

, Australian rules football player for Essendon *

Jennifer Hocking Jennifer Hocking (1929–2011) was an Australian-born British-based fashion model in the 1950s and early 1960s, who then became fashion editor of '' Harper's Bazaar'' and ''Queen''. Whilst there, she gave Anna Wintour her first magazine job. Hoc ...

(1929–2011), Australian-born British model and magazine editor *

Joseph Hocking Joseph Hocking (7 November 1860 – 4 March 1937) was a Cornish people, Cornish novelist and United Methodist Free Churches, United Methodist Free Church minister. Life Hocking was born at St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, to James Hocking, ...

, Cornish novelist and United Methodist Free Church minister *

Silas Hocking Silas Kitto Hocking (24 March 1850 – 15 September 1935) was a British novelist and Methodist preacher. He is known for his novel for youth called ''Her Benny'' (1879), which was a best-seller. Biography Hocking was born at St Stephen-in-Bra ...

, Methodist minister, and Victorian novelist *

William Ernest Hocking William Ernest Hocking (August 10, 1873 – June 12, 1966) was an American idealist philosopher at Harvard University. He continued the work of his philosophical teacher Josiah Royce (the founder of American idealism) in revising idealism to integ ...

, American Idealist philosopher

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