Cockcroft or Cockroft is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Barry Cockcroft (1933–2001), British television documentary director
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Barry Cockcroft (dentist), Chief Dental Officer (CDO) for England
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Bill Cockcroft, 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.
Early care ...
(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 (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, British physiologist
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Vic Cockcroft (born 1941), English footballer
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Wilfred Cockcroft (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
Hannah Lucy Cockroft (born 30 July 1992) is a British wheelchair racer specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification. She holds the world records for the 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres ...
(born 1992), British athlete, gold medallist at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics
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Joe Cockroft (1911–1994), English footballer
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Lana Coc-Kroft
Lana Coc-Kroft (born 1967) is a New Zealand television and radio personality, and was Miss Universe New Zealand in 1988.
Coc-Kroft began her television career appearing in ''Sale of the Century'', and in 1991 on the New Zealand version of ''Wheel ...
(born 1967), New Zealand television and radio personality
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Peter Cockroft (born 1957), British weather forecaster
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Josh Cockroft (born 1989), Oklahoma Representative
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