Mycroft may refer to:

Fictional entities

Mycroft Holmes Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character appearing in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1893 to 1908. The elder brother (by seven years) of detective Sherlock Holmes, he is a government official and a founding member of the Diogene ...

, Sherlock Holmes' brother in Arthur Conan Doyle's detective novels * ''Mycroft Holmes'' (novel), a 2015 novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse * Mycroft Holmes, a computer in Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel ''

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ''The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress'' is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein about a lunar colony's revolt against absentee rule from Earth. The novel illustrates and discusses libertarian ideals. It is respected for i ...

'' * ''Mycroft Mixeudeim'', main character in the play

The Charge of the Expormidable Moose ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

Claude Gauvreau Claude Gauvreau (August 19, 1925 – July 7, 1971 in Montreal, Quebec) was a Canadian playwright, poet, sound poet and polemicist. He was a member of the radical Automatist movement and a contributor to the revolutionary Refus Global Manifest ...

Computing

* Mycroft project, a collection of search plugins for web browsers *

Mycroft (software) Mycroft is a free and open-source software virtual assistant that uses a natural language user interface. Its code was formerly copyleft, but is now under a permissive license. It is named after a fictional computer from 1966 science fiction no ...

, an open source intelligent personal assistant inspired by Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel ''The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress''

People

Alan Mycroft Alan Mycroft is a professor at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, where he is also director of studies for computer science. Education Mycroft read mathematics at Cambridge then moved ...

, co-creator of the Norcroft C compiler * Frank Mycroft (1873–1900), an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1893 and 1895 *

Michaela Mycroft Michaela (Chaeli) Mycroft (born 30 August 1994) is a South African ability activist with cerebral palsy who won the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011. The medal was presented to her by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire. In 2004 Cha ...

(born 1994), South African activist *

Thomas Mycroft Thomas Mycroft (28 March 1848 — 31 August 1911) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire and MCC between 1877 and 1887. Mycroft was born in Brimington, Derbyshire, the son of George Mycroft and his second wife Elizabeth Lowcock. ...

(1848–1911), English cricketer *

William Mycroft William Mycroft (1 February 1841 – 19 June 1894) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire and MCC between 1873 and 1886. He was a left-arm fast bowler with a great deal of spin and a dangerous yorker that was ofte ...

(1841–1894), English cricketer *

Ian Gillies Ian Malcolm Gillies (7 December 1927 – 13 April 2002), known to many simply as Mycroft from BBC Radio 4's ''Brain of Britain'', was an accomplished quiz player and question setter in the United Kingdom. His character name was taken from Arthur ...

(1927–2002), question setter and arbiter of the BBC Radio 4 quiz series ''Brain of Britain''

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Computing

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