title: Horrocks
text: # Horrocks
  
  Horrocks or Horrox may refer to
  
  ## People
  
  * Amy Elsie Horrocks (1867–ca. 1920), English music educator, pianist and composer
  * Brian Horrocks (1895–1985), British Army lieutenant-general in the Second World War
  * Chris Horrocks (soccer) (born 1954), Canadian former international and North American Soccer League player
  * Chris Horrocks (writer), associate professor of art history and author
  * Dylan Horrocks (born 1966), New Zealand cartoonist
  * Geoffrey Horrocks (mathematician) (1932/33 – 2012), British mathematician
  * Geoffrey Horrocks (philologist) (born 1951), British philologist
  * Ian Horrocks (born 1958), British professor of computer science at the University of Oxford
  * Ian Horrocks (RAF officer) (died 2014), British Royal Air Force pilot and air commodore
  * James Horrocks (died 1772), American Anglican clergyman and sixth president of the College of William and Mary
  * Jane Horrocks (born 1964), British comedian and actress
  * Jeremiah Horrocks (1618–1641), English astronomer
  * John Horrocks (cotton manufacturer) (1768–1804), British cotton manufacturer
  * John Horrocks (fisherman) (1816–1881), Scottish founder and innovator of modern European fly fishing
  * John Ainsworth Horrocks, (1818–1846), English-born explorer and settler in South Australia
  * Joseph Horrocks (1803–1866), British convict transported to Western Australia
  * Mark Horrocks (born 1977), English former cricketer
  * Nancy Horrocks (1900–1989), British artist
  * Norman Horrocks (1927–2010), Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor at the School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
  * Peter Horrocks (born 1959), British television producer
  * Ray Horrocks (1930–2011), British automobile chief executive (BL), in the 1980s
  * Richard Horrocks (1857–1926), English cricketer
  * Rosemary Horrox (born 1951), English historian
  * Vic Horrocks (1884–1922), English footballer
  * William Horrocks (1859–1941), British military doctor
  * William Horrocks (cricketer) (1905–1985), English cricketer
  
  ## Places
  
  * Horrocks, Western Australia, a small town
  * Horrocks Pass, a pass in the southern Flinders Ranges in South Australia
  * Horrocks Block, a mostly sandstone outcrop on Alexander Island, Antarctica
  * Horrocks (crater), a lunar crater named after Jeremiah Horrocks
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Tony Horrocks, a fictional character on the soap opera Coronation Street
  * Horrocks Highway, a section of the Main North Road, Adelaide, South Australia
  