Cockerill is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Callum Cockerill-Mollett
Callum David Cockerill-Mollett (born 15 January 1999) is an Irish footballer who plays for side Tamworth, where he plays as a defender.
Playing career Walsall
Cockerill-Mollett came through the Walsall youth team and signed a two-year profe ...
, English footballer
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Glenn Cockerill
Glenn Cockerill (born 25 August 1959) is an English retired footballer who played more than 700 games in The Football League in a 22-year career. He was a skilled central midfielder renowned for his passing and shooting skills.
Playing career
Co ...
, English football manager
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Harry Cockerill (footballer)
Henry Leslie Cockerill (14 January 1894 – 1960) was an English professional footballer who played as a left half in the Football League for Reading, Bristol City, Luton Town and Merthyr Town
Merthyr Town Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droe ...
(1894–1960), English footballer
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John Cockerill (footballer), British football player
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Kay Cockerill
Kay Cockerill (born October 16, 1964 in San Jose, California) is an American golfer.
Amateur and college career
She won the U.S. Women's Amateurs in 1986 and 1987. As a non-scholarship player at UCLA she had six individual wins from 1983 to 198 ...
, American golfer
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Mike Cockerill
Michael Cockerill (20 November 1960 – 31 August 2017) was an investigative Australian football (soccer) journalist who wrote for Fairfax newspapers, Fox Sports and formerly C7 Sport. He was also a football pundit and match commentator and app ...
, Australian football journalist
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Richard Cockerill
Richard Cockerill (born 16 December 1970) is an English rugby union coach and former player, he was the national team's interim head coach between Eddie Jones and Steve Borthwick. He played as a hooker, spending the majority of his career at ...
, English rugby player
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Ricky Cockerill
Ricky Cockerill (born 26 October 1978) is a New Zealand former competitive figure skater. He is a seven-time New Zealand national champion and competed in the free skate at five Four Continents Championships.
Life and career
Cockerill was born ...
, New Zealander figure skater
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Ron Cockerill
Ronald Cockerill (28 February 1935 – 4 November 2010) was a professional footballer, born in Sheffield, who played in the Football League as a defender for Huddersfield Town and Grimsby Town.
His sons Glenn and John
John is a common En ...
, English football player
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Samuel Cockerill
Samuel Pepys Cockerill (18 June 1794 – 7 February 1869) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1817 to 1819.
Cockerill attended Winchester College and subsequently played for the Old Wykehamists in a match in 181 ...
, English cricketer
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Harry Cockerill
Francis Henry Cockerill (5 July 1899 – 8 August 1987) was an Australian politician.
He was born at Greta to miner Francis William Cockerill and Edith Maria Wheatley. He attended school at Kurri Kurri and Cockerill became a miner at Bran ...
(1899–1987), Australian politician
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John Cockerill (industrialist)
John Cockerill (3 August 1790 – 9 June 1840) was an English-born industrialist who became a prominent businessman in Belgium. Born at Haslingden, Lancashire, England, he was brought by his father (British entrepreneur William Cockerill) to the ...
, British businessman and founder of John Cockerill & Cie. (later ''SA John Cockerill''), son of William
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Joseph R. Cockerill
Joseph Randolph Cockerill (January 2, 1818 – October 23, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for one term from 1857 to 1859.
Early life
Joseph R. Cockerill was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, January 2, 1818.Eicher, John H., and D ...
, U.S. Representative
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George K. Cockerill
Brigadier-General Sir George Kynaston Cockerill, (13 August 1867 – 19 April 1957) was a British Army officer and a Conservative Party politician.
Career
Cockerill was the son of the Surgeon-General Robert William Cockerill, and his wife Clar ...
(1867–1957), British Army officer and Conservative Member of Parliament for Reigate 1918–1931
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George Cockerill (journalist)
George Cockerill (1871 – 3 June 1943) was an Australian journalist and writer.
He was born in Bendigo, Victoria, and worked all his life as a journalist, starting on '' The Bendigo Independent'' then as Chief of Staff for the Ballarat Star be ...
(1871–1943), Australian journalist and write
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William Cockerill
William Cockerill (1759–1832) was a British inventor, entrepreneur, and industrialist. Designing and producing machines for new industrial textile manufacturing, he is best known for having established a major manufacturing firm in what is no ...
, British entrepreneur of the Industrial Revolution
See also
*A number of related Belgian steel companies: (''chronologically''):
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John Cockerill (company, 1825–1955)
John Cockerill & Cie. was a Belgian iron, steel, and manufacturing company based at Seraing in Liège Province. It was founded in 1825 by English-born industrialist John Cockerill.
John Cockerill, a son of British entrepreneur William Cocker ...
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Cockerill-Ougrée
Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing, on the river Meuse, and in Charleroi, on the river Sambre. The Cockerill-Sambre group was formed in 1981 by the merger of two Belgian steel groups – SA Cock ...
(1955),
Cockerill-Ougrée-Providence
Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing, on the river Meuse, and in Charleroi, on the river Sambre. The Cockerill-Sambre group was formed in 1981 by the merger of two Belgian steel groups – SA Cock ...
(1966),
Cockerill-Ougrée-Providence et Espérance Longdoz
Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing, on the river Meuse, and in Charleroi, on the river Sambre. The Cockerill-Sambre group was formed in 1981 by the merger of two Belgian steel groups – SA Cock ...
(1970),
Cockerill (1979) or
Cockerill-Sambre
Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing, on the river Meuse, and in Charleroi, on the river Sambre. The Cockerill-Sambre group was formed in 1981 by the merger of two Belgian steel groups – SA Cocke ...
(1981).
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Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie
John Cockerill, formerly Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie (CMI), is a mechanical engineering group headquartered in Seraing, Belgium. It produces machinery for steel plants, industrial heat recovery equipment and boilers, as well as shunting l ...
, Belgian mechanical engineering company
See also
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Cockerell Cockerell is a surname, and may refer to:
People
* Allan Cockerell (1891–1975), New Zealand soldier and politician
* Catherine Cockerell Cobb (1903–1995), British jeweler, silversmith, daughter of Douglas
*Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863 ...
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