Cocker may refer to:
People
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Anne Cocker
Anne Cocker (born Anne Gowen Rennis; 25 May 1920 – 21 November 2014) was a Scottish people, Scottish rose breeder from Aberdeen, Scotland. Cocker and her husband, Alexander Morison Cocker, were owners of the nursery, James Cocker & Sons. From t ...
(1920–2014), Scottish rose breeder from Aberdeen
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David Cocker (b. 1955), New Zealand fencer
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Edward Cocker (1631–1676), English engraver, who also taught writing and arithmetic
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Edwin Cocker (b. 1980), New Zealand rugby union player
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Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician and radio presenter. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Following P ...
(b. 1963), English musician, frontman of
Pulp
Pulp may refer to:
* Pulp (fruit), the inner flesh of fruit
Engineering
* Dissolving pulp, highly purified cellulose used in fibre and film manufacture
* Pulp (paper), the fibrous material used to make paper
* Molded pulp, a packaging material
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Joe Cocker (1944–2014), English rock/blues singer
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Cocker'', his 1986 album
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John Cocker (1815–1885), Anglo-Australian cricketer
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Jonny Cocker
Jonathan Cocker (born 24 August 1986) is a British racing driver. In 2012 he won the ELMS GTE Pro Championship. He competed in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) for Drayson Racing, a team run by Paul Drayson.
Career
Cocker, who was born in ...
(b. 1986), British racing driver
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Les Cocker (1924–1979), English professional football player and coach
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Les Cocker (1939–2017), English professional football player
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Linzey Cocker Linzey is the family name of
*Andrew Linzey
Andrew Linzey (born 2 February 1952) is an English Anglican priest, theologian, and prominent figure in Christian vegetarianism. He is a member of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford, an ...
(b. 1987), English actress
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Mac Cocker
George Malcolm 'Mac' Cocker Cocker, Jarvis. ''Good Pop, Bad Pop'', London: Jonathan Cape, 2022, p. 320 (1941 – 3 June 2016) was an English-born Australian radio announcer, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio network for ...
(1941–2016), English-born Australian radio announcer
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Mark Cocker (b. 1959), British author and naturalist
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Mark Cocker (b. 1982), British freestyle wrestler, Ju-Jitsu and Judo player
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Norman Cocker (1889–1953), English organist and composer for the organ
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Ryan Cocker (b. 1992), New Zealand rugby union player
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Syl Cheney-Cocker (b. 1945), Sierra Leonean poet, novelist, and journalist
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W. D. Cocker (1882–1970), Scottish poet
Other
*Abbreviation of
Autococker, a
paintball marker
A paintball marker, also known as a paintball gun, paint gun, or simply marker, is an air gun used in the shooting sport of paintball, and the main piece of paintball equipment. Paintball markers use compressed gas, such as carbon dioxide (CO ...
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*Cocker, one who follows the sport of
cockfighting
A cockfight is a blood sport, held in a ring called a cockpit. The history of raising fowl for fighting goes back 6,000 years. The first documented use of the ''word'' gamecock, denoting use of the cock as to a "game", a sport, pastime or ente ...
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Cocker Spaniel
Cocker Spaniels are dogs belonging to two breeds of the spaniel dog type: the American Cocker Spaniel and the English Cocker Spaniel of which are commonly called simply Cocker Spaniel in their countries of origin. In the early 20th century, Cock ...
, a dog
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James Cocker & Sons, a nursery business located in Aberdeen, Scotland
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River Cocker, Cumbria
The River Cocker is a river in the Lake District in North West England, in the county of Cumbria. Its source is at the head of the Buttermere valley. It flows north through Buttermere and then Crummock Water, through Lorton Vale, to the town ...
, a river in the English county of Cumbria
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River Cocker (Lancashire), a river in the English county of Lancashire
See also
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English-language surnames
