The surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 Cox is of English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 or Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 origin, and may have originated independently in several locations in Great Britain, with the variations arriving at a standard spelling only later. An early record of the surname dates from 1556 with the marriage of Alicea Cox at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London. Cox is the 69th-most common surname in the United Kingdom.

Origin

One possibility of the origin is that it is a version of the Old English cocc which means "the little," and was sometimes placed after the name of a leader or chieftain as a term of endearment. Surnames such as Wilcox, Willcocks and Willcox are examples of this practice: all are composed of the name William and the archaic word cocc, coming together to mean "little William." The suggestion is that only the element -cox may have endured as a surname for some families.

Another opinion is that the name is derived from the Old English cock, which means a "heap" or "mound," and was a topographic name for a man living near any heap, hill or other bundle. Names like Haycock or Haycox come from such practice, meaning from "the hay mounds" or "the hay fields." Again, the element -cox may have only been carried on in some families.

The third possibility is that it comes from the Welsh

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 coch, meaning "red." In this opinion, the word could have either been applied to a man with red hair, calling him in essence "the Red," or else served as a topographic name for someone living near the rudy-hued hills found in Wales, implying that the man is "from the red hills." In Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, the surnames Cock and Couch also derive from Cornish

Cornish language

Cornish is a Brythonic Celtic language and a recognised minority language of the United Kingdom. Along with Welsh and Breton, it is directly descended from the ancient British language spoken throughout much of Britain before the English language came to dominate...

 cogh "red, scarlet". As a Cornish surname

Cornish surnames

Cornish surnames are surnames used by Cornish people and often derived from the Cornish language. Such surnames for the common people emerged in the Middle Ages, although the nobility probably had surnames much earlier on. Not until the later Middle Ages did it become necessary for a common man to...

, Cock can also derive from 'cok', "fishing boat", the Cornish surname "Cocking" being the diminutive form 'cokyn', "small fishing boat". In these cases, the surname is likely to derive from occupation.

The English word cock

Rooster

A rooster, also known as a cockerel, cock or chanticleer, is a male chicken with the female being called a hen. Immature male chickens of less than a year's age are called cockerels...

 is derived from the French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 coq, and a fourth possibility, though a very limited one (as the surname had already been established in many parts of Great Britain), is that the surname came about as a nickname from the French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

.

Noticeably similar surnames include Cock

Cock (surname)

The surname Cock is derived from the Dutch and Flemish surname de Cock, alternately found as de Cook or de Kok and can be Anglicanised as Cook, and comes from the occupation of a cook....

, Cocks

Cocks (surname)

Cocks is a surname, and may refer to:*Arthur Cocks, Australian cricket umpire*Charles Cocks, British 19th century wine enthusiast, author of Cocks & Féret*Clifford Cocks, British cryptographer*Jay Cocks, film writer...

, Coxe

Coxe

Coxe is a surname, and may refer to:*Alfred Conkling Coxe, Sr., American federal judge*Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jr., American federal judge*Arthur Cleveland Coxe, American bishop, son of Samuel Hanson Cox*Daniel Coxe, English governor of West Jersey...

, Coxen and Coxon

Coxon

Coxon is a surname, and may refer to:*Alec Coxon, English cricketer*Graham Coxon, English musician*John Coxon * John Coxon, member of English band Spring Heel Jack-See also:* Cock* Cocks* Cox* Coxe* Coxen...

. There is no evidence beyond similar spellings and phonetics that these surnames are related. Given that the origins of the Cox surname are uncertain, it is possible that these names developed as spelling variations, or that each of these names has an origin in a separate word and language.

Given name A-L

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• Alex Cox
  Alex Cox
  Alexander Cox is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts...
  
  , film director
• Alan Cox
  Alan Cox
  Alan Cox is a British computer programmer who formerly maintained the 2.2 branch of the Linux kernel and continues to be heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel, an association that dates back to 1991...
  
  , leader in Linux
• Alan Cox (radio personality), American radio personality
• Alan Cox (actor)
  Alan Cox (actor)
  -Biography:He is the son of the Emmy Award winning actor Brian Cox and his first wife Caroline Burt. Cox was educated at St Paul's School in London. He has a sister, Margaret, and a half brother Torin Kamran Charles....
  
  , Anglo-Scottish actor
• Allan V. Cox
  Allan V. Cox
  Allan Verne Cox was an American geophysicist. His work on dating geomagnetic reversals, with Richard Doell and Brent Dalrymple, made a major contribution to the theory of plate tectonics. Allan Cox won numerous awards, including the prestigious Vetlesen Prize, and was the president of the American...
  
  , American geologist
• Ana Marie Cox
  Ana Marie Cox
  Ana Marie Cox is an American author and blogger. The founding editor of the political blog Wonkette, she is currently the Washington correspondent for GQ and is The Guardian's lead blogger on US politics. She previously worked at Air America Media.-Early life:Cox was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
  
  , American blogger and author
• Andy Cox
  Andy Cox
  Andy Cox is a British guitarist, who along with Dave Wakeling, founded The Beat in 1978.The Beat achieved eight Top 40 singles and three hit albums in the UK before announcing their break up in 1983...
  
  , British guitarist
• Anne Cox Chambers
  Anne Cox Chambers
  Anne Beau Cox Chambers is a media proprietor, who is primary owner of Cox Enterprises, a privately held media empire that includes newspapers, television, radio, cable television, and other businesses....
  
  , media owner, daughter of James M.
• Anthony Cox
  Anthony Cox (musician)
  Anthony Cox is an American jazz bass player.Played with: Geri Allen, Dewey Redman, Dave Douglas, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Gary Thomas, Marty Ehrlich, Ed Blackwell, Joe Lovano, Dave King, and others.Lives and plays in Minnesota....
  
  , jazz musician
• Anthony Cox, film producer and former husband of Yoko Ono
• Anthony Berkeley Cox
  Anthony Berkeley Cox
  Anthony Berkeley Cox was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts.- Life :...
  
  , British writer
• Archibald Cox
  Archibald Cox
  Archibald Cox, Jr., was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy. He became known as the first special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal. During his career, he was a pioneering expert on labor law and also an authority on...
  
  , U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy; first Special Prosecutor appointed to investigate the Watergate scandal
• Arthur Cox
  Arthur Cox
  Arthur Cox , is a British actor of television and film.His most regular role was as George, the driver of Jim Hacker in the comedy Yes Minister. His other television credits include The Avengers, Terry and June, and Harbour Lights...
  
  , British actor
• Arthur Cox (footballer)
  Arthur Cox (footballer)
  Arthur Cox is a former English football manager.Cox has managed a number of clubs including Chesterfield, Newcastle United, where he won promotion to the First Division and introduced future international players such as Peter Beardsley and Chris Waddle...
  
  , British football manager

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• Barbara Cox
  Barbara Cox
  Barbara Cox is a writer and script editor, mainly in British television, who has worked on such programmes as The Bill, The Paradise Club, Cardiac Arrest, Love Hurts, Dangerfield and Holby City....
  
  , writer and script editor
• Barbara Cox (footballer)
  Barbara Cox (footballer)
  Barbara Cox is a former association football player who represented New Zealand.Cox captained the New Zealand women's team in their first ever international as they beat Hong Kong 2-0 on 25 August 1975 at the inaugural AFC Women's Asian Cup...
  
  , New Zealand international women's football (soccer) player
• Barbara Cox Anthony
  Barbara Cox Anthony
  Barbara Blair Cox Anthony was the youngest daughter of James M. Cox, a Democratic governor of Ohio, newspaper publisher and broadcaster. With her sister Anne Cox Chambers and brother James M. Cox, Jr., she inherited, via a trust, ownership and control of her father’s company, now called Cox...
  
  , Media owner, daughter of James M. Cox
• Billy Cox
  Billy Cox
  William "Billy" Cox is an American bassist, best known for performing with Jimi Hendrix.-Early years:Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, Cox was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended Schenley High School. He first met Jimi Hendrix in the early 1960s, when they were both in the United States...
  
  , American bass guitarist
• Billy Cox (baseball) (1919–1978), American Major League Baseball middle infielder
• Bobby Cox
  Bobby Cox
  Robert Joseph "Bobby" Cox is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and manager. He first led the Atlanta Braves from 1978 to 1981, and then managed the Toronto Blue Jays from 1982 to 1985. He later rejoined the Braves in 1985 as a general manager...
  
  , American baseball manager
• Brad Cox
  Brad Cox
  Brad Cox is a computer scientist and Ph.D. of mathematical biology known mostly for his work in software engineering , software componentry, and the Objective-C programming language....
  
  , American computer scientist, developer of Objective-C
• Brian Cox, Scottish actor
• Brian Cox
  Brian Cox (physicist)
  Brian Edward Cox, OBE , is a British particle physicist, a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at...
  
  , British physicist
• Bryan Cox
  Bryan Cox
  Bryan Keith Cox is a former American football linebacker who played twelve seasons in the NFL from 1991 through 2002. He was a member of the New England Patriots club that won Super Bowl XXXVI...
  
  , American football player
• Bryan-Michael Cox, songwriter

C

• Carl Cox
  Carl Cox
  Carl Cox is a British techno and house music DJ.-Biography:Cox grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, before attending Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden. Cox began his career as a hardcore and rave DJ in the mid 1980s...
  
  , British musician
• Catherine Cox (actress)
  Catherine Cox (actress)
  Catherine Cox is an American actress. A regular on the Broadway stage in the 1980s, Cox's credits include the original Ethel McCormack in the production of Footloose, the musical Oh Coward!, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, and...
  
  , American Actress
• Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox
  Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox
  Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox was born in Iowa into a Quaker family on August 11, 1865. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1889. In 1891, she married Isaac Milton Cox. In 1898, she and her family moved to Hawaii, spurred by Isaac’s poor health...
  
  , American/Hawaiian art scholar
• Cathy Cox
  Cathy Cox
  Lera Catharine "Cathy" Cox is a Georgia politician, a member of the Democratic Party, the former Secretary of State of Georgia, and a candidate for Governor of Georgia in 2006...
  
  , American politician
• Channing H. Cox
  Channing H. Cox
  Channing Harris Cox was a Massachusetts Republican politician and the 49th Governor of Massachusetts born in Manchester, New Hampshire....
  
  , American politician
• Charles Cox (disambiguation)
• Chip Cox
  Chip Cox
  Chip Cox is a Canadian football linebacker for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.-High school career:...
  
  , American football player
• Christopher Cox, SEC chairman
• Chris Cox (actor)
  Chris Cox (actor)
  Chris Cox is a filmmaker and voice actor. He is best known, as himself, for the 2001 Small Shots TV series for Spike TV.Cox replaced George Eads in the role of Captain Atom for the popular animated series Justice League Unlimited. Eads was unwilling to reprise his voice role after an appearance in...
  
  
• Chris Cox (DJ)
  Chris Cox (DJ)
  Chris Cox is a dance music producer, remixer, and DJ from USA and has worked on over 400 records. He has had a total of 40 Billboard dance chart number ones as part of the hitmaking remix team Thunderpuss, and others with Pusaka and as a solo artist. He was nominated for a Grammy in 2004 for his...
  
  , dance music producer
• Christina Cox
  Christina Cox
  Christina Cox is a Canadian movie and television actress and stuntwoman.-Biography:Christina Cox was born just outside of Toronto, the youngest of three daughters. Her two sisters are named Tracey and Melissa...
  
  , Canadian actress
• Christopher Augustus Cox
  Christopher Augustus Cox
  Christopher Augustus Cox VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross.-Early army career:Cox was married with one son when war was declared but still volunteered in September 1914. He was a private in the 7th Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment, British Army...
  
  , British soldier
• Constance Cox
  Constance Cox
  Constance Cox was a British script writer.She specialised in adaptations of books by Charles Dickens and other classic literature. She was born in Surrey, England, UK. She was one of the first writers to adapt for television. Pickwick Papers was adapted for television by her in 1977. She also was...
  
  , British scriptwriter
• Courteney Cox
  Courteney Cox
  Courteney Bass Cox is an American actress, she is best known for her roles as Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends, Gale Weathers in the horror series Scream and as Jules Cobb in the ABC sitcom Cougar Town, for which she earned her first Golden Globe nomination....
  
  , American actress
• Crystal Cox
  Crystal Cox
  Crystal Cox is an American track and field athlete and was a contestant on the seventeenth season of the reality show Survivor.- Olympics :...
  
  , Olympic Gold Medallist and reality TV star
• Curome Cox
  Curome Cox
  Curome Cox is an American football safety who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at Maryland....
  
  , American football player

D

• Danny Cox
  Danny Cox
  Danny Bradford Cox , is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1983 to 1988, the Philadelphia Phillies from 1991 to 1992, the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1992, and then the Toronto Blue Jays from 1993 to 1995, when he retired...
  
  , MLB pitcher who played in three different World Series contests
• Dave Cox
  Dave Cox
  David E. Cox was an American politician from Holdenville, Oklahoma. A Republican, he served as a California State Senator, representing the 1st district from December 2004 until his death in July 2010, and also served as an California State Assemblyman for the six years immediately before his...
  
  , American politician
• David Cox (Australian politician)
  David Cox (Australian politician)
  David Alexander Cox , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives October 1998 to October 2004, representing the Division of Kingston, South Australia...
  
  , former member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Kingston
  Division of Kingston
  The Division of Kingston is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia covering the far-south metropolitan area of Adelaide. The division was first proclaimed in 1949....
  
  
• David Cox (artist)
  David Cox (artist)
  - David Cox Junior :David Cox had a son of the same name who followed his calling as a watercolour painter. He was born in Dulwich, but educated in Hereford. He exhibited in London from 1827, although today he is known mainly through association with his father. He died in Streatham on 4 December...
  
  , prominent English landscape painter
• David Cox (statistician)
  David Cox (statistician)
  Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS is a prominent British statistician.-Early years:Cox studied mathematics at St. John's College, Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch.-Career:He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft...
  
  , prominent British statistician
• Dean Cox (disambiguation)
• Deborah Cox
  Deborah Cox
  Deborah Cox is a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. Her 1998 song "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" held the record for longest-running number one single on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart , a record held for nearly eight years. She has achieved ten number-one hits on...
  
  , Canadian singer
• Dennis Cox
  Dennis Cox
  Dennis Frank Cox was an English cricketer and cricket administrator. Cox was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Bermondsey, London....
  
   (1925-2001), English cricketer and administrator
• Derek Cox
  Derek Cox
  Derek Sinclair Cox is an American football cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Jaguars in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at William & Mary.-High school career:Cox attended Junius H. Rose High School in...
  
  , American football player
• Dewey Cox, a fictional musician and subject of the comedic film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
  Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
  Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 music comedy film written and produced by Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan, directed by Kasdan and starring John C. Reilly...
  
  .
• Doc Cox
  Doc Cox
  Robert "Doc" Cox , also known as Ivor Biggun, is a British musician and former television journalist...
  
  , British television personality, sound engineer and rude singer
• Donna Cox
  Donna Cox
  Donna J. Cox is an American artist and scientist, Professor of Art + Design; Director, Advanced Scientific Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Director, Visualization and Experimental Technologies at National Center for Supercomputing Applications ; and...
  
  , American Professor of Art

E

• Edward Everett Cox
  Edward Everett Cox
  Edward Everett Cox was an American newspaper publisher who started Blackford County’s first daily newspaper in Hartford City, Indiana. He is “considered one of the most influential forces in journalism” in Blackford County, and was a strong supporter of the Democratic Party...
  
  , Indiana publisher and Democrat
• Edward F. Cox
  Edward F. Cox
  Edward Ridley Finch Cox , is the chairman of the New York Republican State Committee and the son-in-law of the late President Richard M. Nixon. Cox is a lawyer in the Manhattan law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP where he has served as the Chairman of the Corporate Department and a...
  
  , keyboardist from Scottish band The Hurricanes
• Edward F. Cox
  Edward F. Cox
  Edward Ridley Finch Cox , is the chairman of the New York Republican State Committee and the son-in-law of the late President Richard M. Nixon. Cox is a lawyer in the Manhattan law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP where he has served as the Chairman of the Corporate Department and a...
  
  , New York lawyer and potential politician
• Elbert Frank Cox
  Elbert Frank Cox
  Elbert Frank Cox was an American mathematician who became the first black person in the world to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. He spent most of his life as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he was known as an excellent teacher. During his life, he overcame various...
  
  , American mathematician
• Emily Cox (puzzle writer), American puzzle writer
• Emily Cox (conductor)
  Emily Cox (conductor)
  Emily Cox is an Australian conductor and Music Director of choirs.-Education:She has graduated from the Dartmouth College and the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane and has continued her education overseas.-Career:...
  
  , Australian conductor and Choir master
• Emily Cox (Miss Kentucky)
  Emily Cox (Miss Kentucky)
  Emily Cox, is Miss Kentucky 2008.-Biography:She won the title of Miss Kentucky in 2008 and participated in Miss America 2009 on January 24, 2009. Cox’s platform is “Uniquely Me: Promoting Self-Esteem in Adolescent Girls” and her competition talent was piano. She won the Quality of Life Award and...
  
  , American beauty pageant contestant
• Eric Cox
  Eric Cox
  Eric Holsbury Cox OAM was an Australian rugby league coach, referee and administrator.-Career:Cox was born in Burwood, New South Wales in 1923. He joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1940, serving on HMAS Kanimbla during World War II...
  
  , Australian rugby league player, coach, referee and administrator
• Ernest Cox
  Ernest Cox
  Ernest Frank Guelph Cox was an electrical and mechanical engineer and marine salvage expert from Wolverhampton. Between 1924 and 1931 his Cox & Danks Shipbreaking Co. successfully raised 35 of the German fleet that had been scuttled at Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow in 1919. He eventually sold the...
  
  , British engineer

F

• Fred Cox
  Fred Cox
  Frederick William Cox is a former National Football League kicker who played for the Minnesota Vikings throughout his career . Fred was raised in Monongahela, PA, where his family owned a grocery store...
  
  , American football player
• Freddie Cox
  Freddie Cox
  Frederick James Arthur "Freddie" Cox DFC was an English football player and manager.Born in Reading, Berkshire, Cox signed as an 18-year-old for Tottenham Hotspur in 1938. A tricky and talented winger who usually played on the right, he made his Spurs debut in a Second Division match against...
  
  , English football player

G

• Geoffrey Cox
  Geoffrey Cox
  Charles Geoffrey Cox, QC, MP , is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he is currently a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Torridge and West Devon.-Early life:...
  
  , British barrister and politician
• Geoffrey Cox (journalist)
  Geoffrey Cox (journalist)
  Sir Geoffrey Sandford Cox, CNZM, CBE was a New Zealand-born newspaper and television journalist. He was a former editor and chief executive of ITN and a founder of News at Ten....
  
   (1910-2008), British television journalist
• George Cox (Ottawa politician)
  George Cox (Ottawa politician)
  George Cox was mayor of the city of Ottawa, Canada in 1894.He was born on Saint Helen's Island in Montreal in 1834 and came to Ottawa in 1855. He served as alderman on city council from 1882 to 1888 and in 1891. He was unsuccessful in an attempt to become mayor in 1892, when Olivier Durocher was...
  
   (1834–1909), mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, 1894
• George Albertus Cox
  George Albertus Cox
  George Albertus Cox was a very prominent Canadian businessman and a member of the Canadian Senate.He was born in Colborne, Upper Canada in 1840. He began work as a telegraph operator for the Montreal Telegraph Company and became their agent in Peterborough, Ontario. In 1861, he became an agent for...
  
   (1840–1914), Canadian capitalist and Senator
• George William Cox
  George William Cox
  George William Cox was a British historian. He is known for resolving the several myths of Greece and the world into idealisations of solar phenomena....
  
   (1827–1902), British historian
• Geraldine Cox
  Geraldine Cox
  Geraldine Cox is president and operator of the Sunrise Children's Village orphanage in the province of Kandal, in Cambodia. She is the only Australian to have been granted Cambodian citizenship by a royal decree from King Norodom Sihanouk....
  
  , Australian orphanage administrator in Cambodia
• Gertrude Mary Cox
  Gertrude Mary Cox
  Gertrude Mary Cox was an influential American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and the Statistics Research...
  
  , American statistician
• Greg Cox (disambiguation)

H

• Harry Cox
  Harry Cox
  Harry Fred Cox , was a Norfolk farmworker and one of the most important singers of traditional English music of the twentieth century, on account of his large repertoire and fine singing style....
  
  , British traditional singer
• Harvey Cox
  Harvey Cox
  Harvey Gallagher Cox, Jr. is one of the preeminent theologians in the United States and served as Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, until his retirement in October 2009...
  
  , American theologian
• Heather Cox (singer), American Idol contestant
• H. R. Cox
  H. R. Cox
  Herald Rea Cox was an American bacteriologist. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, he graduated from Indiana State Normal School, now Indiana State University, in 1928 before obtaining his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health....
  
  , American bacteriologist

I

• Ida Cox
  Ida Cox
  Ida Cox was an African American singer and vaudeville performer, best known for her blues performances and recordings...
  
  , blues and jazz musician
• Isaac Joslin Cox
  Isaac Joslin Cox
  Isaac Joslin Cox, Ph.D. was an American professor of history.-Biography:He was born at West Creek, Ocean Co., N. J.. He graduated from Dartmouth College and for several years did research in Mexico...
  
  , American historian

J

• Jacob Dolson Cox
  Jacob Dolson Cox
  Jacob Dolson Cox, was a lawyer, a Union Army general during the American Civil War, and later a Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 28th Governor of Ohio and as United States Secretary of the Interior....
  
  , American soldier and politician
• Jack Cox (disambiguation)
  Jack Cox (disambiguation)
  Jack Cox may refer to:*Jack Cox , English footballer*Jack Cox , fictional character in TV comedy, Scrubs*Jack E. Cox , cinematographer*Jack Cox , Texas politician and gubernatorial candidate...
  
  
• James Cox (Representative)
  James Cox (Representative)
  James Cox was a member of the United States House of Representatives in the 11th Congress.He was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey on 16 October 1753, the son of Judge Joseph and Mary Cox...
  
  
• James Allan Cox, American professional wrestler better known as James Storm
• James L. Cox
  James L. Cox
  James L. Cox, MD, is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and medical innovator best known for the development of the Cox maze procedure for treatment of atrial fibrillation.- Early background :...
  
  , MD, American cardiothoracic surgeon
• James M. Cox
  James M. Cox
  James Middleton Cox was the 46th and 48th Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920....
  
  , American publisher and politician, Governor of Ohio and Democratic presidential nominee in 1920
• James Renshaw Cox, American Catholic priest and activist
• Jamie Cox, Australian cricketer
• Jan Cox (painter)
  Jan Cox (painter)
  Jan Cox was a painter who spent the largest part of his creative life in the United States and Belgium.-Life:...
  
  , artist
• Jennings Cox
  Jennings Cox
  Jennings Cox, American mining engineer who is said to have invented the drink known as the daiquiri in the late nineteenth century. Cox was an American expatriate working in Cuba...
  
  , American mining engineer and supposed inventor of the daiquiri
• John Cox (Royal Navy officer)
  John Cox (Royal Navy officer)
  Vice-Admiral Sir John Cox KCB was an English Royal Naval Officer and Admiral.-Personal life:He was born in Peking, and first went to sea as a boy , when he warned the British fleet of the seizure of British Embassy property by pirates...
  
   (1928–2006), a British Royal Navy admiral
• John Cox (cartoonist), an American cartoonist
• John Cox (cricketer)
  John Cox (cricketer)
  John Cox , was an Australian cricket player, who played first class cricket for Tasmania and Victoria.-External links:*...
  
  , a Tasmanian-Australian cricketer
• John Cox (director), an English opera director
• John Arthur "Chubby" Cox III
  Chubby Cox
  John Arthur "Chubby" Cox III , is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'2" guard, Cox attended Roxborough High School in Philadelphia...
  
   (b. 1955), an American basketball player
• John B. Cox
  John B. Cox
  John B. Cox is a British-born ornithologist, who emigrated to Australia in 1968.The hybrid shorebird Cox's Sandpiper was named after him by Shane Parker.-References:...
  
  , a British-Australian ornithologist
• John Carrington Cox, an American professor and economist
• John H. Cox
  John H. Cox
  John Herman Cox is an American lawyer, accountant, businessman, broadcaster, and aspiring politician. He was the first Republican to seek formally the party's 2008 nomination for president, but effectively withdrew from the race in late 2007 and suspended his campaign shortly after.-Biography:Born...
  
   (b. 1955), an Illinois politician, businessman, and radio host, Republican
• John I. Cox
  John I. Cox
  John Isaac Cox was Governor of Tennessee from 1905 to 1907.-Biography:Cox was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, on November 23, 1855, and was the son of a Confederate soldier, which was less common in East Tennessee than in the rest of the state, as East Tennessee was one of the Southern...
  
   (1855–1946), a governor of Tennessee
• John R. Cox, Jr. (1913–1995), the birth name of American actor John Howard
• John Rogers Cox
  John Rogers Cox
  John Rogers Cox was an American painter from Terre Haute, Indiana. His style and subject matter align him with the Regionalist and Magic Realist landscape tradition.-Early life and education:...
  
  , an American artist
• John W. Cox, Jr.
  John W. Cox, Jr.
  John W. Cox, Jr. is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for one term. From 1991 to 1993 herepresented the 16th District of Illinois ....
  
   (b. 1947), an Illinois lawyer and former Congressman, Democrat
• Joseph Buford Cox
  Joseph Buford Cox
  Joseph Buford Cox , invented what is now known as the chipper type chain for chain saws. He based his design on the C-shaped jaws of the larva of the timber beetle....
  
  , American inventor
• Josephine Cox
  Josephine Cox
  Josephine Cox, born Blackburn, Lancashire in 1941, is an English author. Her books are frequently best sellers and the UK Public Lending Rights figures often list her in the top three borrowed authors.She also writes under the name of Jane Brindle....
  
  , English author
• Joshua Cox
  Joshua Cox
  Joshua "Josh" Cox is an American actor. He is perhaps most famous for his work in television. Notable roles include Lieutenant David Corwin and Senior Nurse Peter Riggs...
  
  , American actor
• Julianna Cox
  Julianna Cox
  Julianna Cox is a fictional chief medical examiner in the TV show Homicide: Life on the Street for seasons 5-6, played by actress Michelle Forbes....
  
  , fictional character from Homicide: Life on the Street
• Julie Cox
  Julie Cox
  Julie Cox is an English-Scottish actress perhaps best known for her role as Princess Irulan in the Sci Fi Channel's 2000 Dune miniseries and its 2003 follow-up, Children of Dune....
  
  , Scottish actress

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• Kathy Cox
  Kathy Cox
  Kathy Cox is a former superintendent of public schools for the U.S. state of Georgia, and is a Republican. A high school teacher by occupation, Cox also served two terms, from 1998 to 2002, in the Georgia General Assembly, representing Peachtree City, Georgia, prior to her election as...
  
  , American politician
• Kathy Cox (skydiver)
  Kathy Cox (skydiver)
  Kathy Cox, CM, now known as Kathy Sutton, is a Canadian skydiver. Cox placed first overall at the Canadian National Parachuting Championships in 1973, 1978, and 1980 . She is also noted for having won the Gold Medal in Women's Individual Accuracy at the XV World Parachuting Championships in...
  
  , Canadian skydiver
• Kenyon Cox
  Kenyon Cox
  Kenyon Cox was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, writer, and teacher. Cox was an influential and important early instructor at the Art Students League of New York...
  
  , American artist
• Kristen Cox
  Kristen Cox
  Kristen Cox is a blind American politician and current Executive Director for the Utah Department of Workforce Services. Previously Cox served as Maryland Secretary of Disabilities. Kris Cox was the running mate of Maryland Governor Robert L...
  
  , American politician
• Kyoko Chan Cox, daughter of Anthony Cox and Yoko Ono

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• Leroy (Roy) M. Cox, American entrepreneur
• Lionel Cox
  Lionel Cox
  Lionel Malvyne Cox OAM was an Australian Olympic cyclist.-Results and awards:*1948 – 49 1st N.S.W. 1000 metre Sprint Title*1949 – 50 1st N.S.W...
  
  , Australian track cyclist
• Lynne Cox
  Lynne Cox
  Lynne Cox is an American long-distance open-water swimmer and writer. In 1971, she and her teammates were the first group of teenagers to complete the crossing of the Catalina Island Channel in California. She was always the slowest swimmer in her swim classes...
  
  , swimmer

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• Margaret Cox
  Margaret Cox
  Margaret Cox is an Irish politician and former Senator.-Electoral history:She entered politics having been co-opted onto the Galway City Council in 1995, following the death of her father Tom Cox...
  
  , Irish politician
• Marian Roalfe Cox
  Marian Roalfe Cox
  Marian Roalfe Cox was an English folklorist who pioneered studies in Morphology for the fairy tale Cinderella.In 1893, after being commissioned by the Folklore Society of Britain, she produced Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-Five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin and, Cap O' Rushes, Abstracted...
  
   English folklorist
• Marion Cox
  Marion Cox
  Marion "Preacher" Cox was a NASCAR Grand National Series car owner. Cox has a widow named Mrs. Nina Cox whose birthday is January 25, 1930...
  
  , former NASCAR car owner
• Mark Cox (tennis), British tennis player
• Mia Cox
  Mia Cox
  Mia Cox is a female singer/songwriter from Newark, New Jersey. She was the featured vocalist on DJ Disciple's "Caught Up" , which went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2002.-See also:...
  
  , American singer-songwriter
• Michael Cox (clergyman)
  Michael Cox (clergyman)
  Michael Patrick O'Connor Cox is a bishop in the Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church, an independent Catholic denomination in Ireland...
  
  , Palmarian Archbishop
• Michele Cox
  Michele Cox
  Michele Cox is an association football player who represented New Zealand.Cox made her Football Ferns 3–0 win over Hawaii on 12 December 1987, and finished her international career with 18 caps and 6 goals to her credit....
  
  , New Zealand international women's football (soccer) player
• Michael J. Cox
  Michael J. Cox
  Michael J. Cox is a former American pornographic actor.Having began his career in 1993 at age 24, Cox appeared in over 600 films through 2005, directing three films himself from 1995 to 1997...
  
  , American pharmacist and biographer
• Mike Cox
  Mike Cox
  Mike Cox was Michigan's 52nd Attorney General; the first Republican to hold that office since 1955. Cox took office in 2003 and won re-election in 2006. Michigan Governor Jennifer M...
  
  , American politician

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• Nicholas Cox (disambiguation)
• Nikki Cox
  Nikki Cox
  Nicole Avery "Nikki" Cox is an American actress known mostly for her roles on the television series Unhappily Ever After, Las Vegas, and Nikki.-Early life:...
  
  , American actress

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• Oscar Cox
  Oscar Cox
  Oscar Alfredo Cox was a Brazilian sportsman who introduced football to the city of Rio de Janeiro and founded Fluminense, one of Brazil's most traditional and popular football clubs....
  
  , promoter of soccer in Brazil

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• Palmer Cox
  Palmer Cox
  Palmer Cox was a Canadian illustrator and author, best known for The Brownies, his series of humorous verse books and comic strips about the mischievous but kindhearted fairy-like sprites. The cartoons were published in several books, such as The Brownies, Their Book...
  
  , Canadian inventor
• Pat Cox
  Pat Cox
  Pat Cox is an Irish politician and former television current affairs presenter. He was President of the European Parliament from 2002 to 2004 and served as a member of the European Parliament from 1989–2004....
  
  , former president of the European Parliament
• Percy Cox, British diplomat
• Dr. Perry Cox, a fictional character on the TV series Scrubs
• Peter Cox (disambiguation)
• Philip Cox
  Philip Cox
  Professor Philip Sutton Cox AO is an Australian architect.Professor Cox is the founding partner of COX Architects & Planners, one of the largest architectural practices in Australia....
  
  , Australian architect

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• Reg Cox, fictional character in East Enders soap opera
• Renée Cox
  Renée Cox
  Renée Cox is an Jamaican-American artist, photographer, political activist and curator. Cox currently lives and works out of New York.-Early years:...
  
  , American artist and photographer
• Richard Cox (bishop)
  Richard Cox (bishop)
  Richard Cox was an English clergyman, who was Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Ely.-Biography:Cox was born of obscure parentage at Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, in 1499 or 1500....
  
  , Anglican bishop of the sixteenth century
• Richard Colvin Cox, disappeared American cadet
• Richard Threlkeld Cox
  Richard Threlkeld Cox
  Richard Threlkeld Cox was a professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for Cox's theorem relating to the foundations of probability....
  
  , physicist and statistician (Cox's theorem)
• Robert E. Cox
  Robert E. Cox
  -Career:Cox worked briefly at Perkin Elmer in 1939. Shortly thereafter he was inducted into the Army Air Corps and served for two years in the South Pacific as a weather specialist. After the war, Cox accepted part-time positions as photographic technician at Harvard Observatory and as staff...
  
  , American optical engineer and popularizer of amateur telescope making
• Robert Edward Cox
  Robert Edward Cox
  Robert Edward Cox was a sailor serving in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.-Biography:...
  
  , American Medal of Honor recipient
• Robert O. Cox
  Robert O. Cox
  Robert O. Cox was mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida from 1986-1991. Before becoming mayor, Cox spent nearly two decades on the City Commission. Cox owns a local marina.-Role in making Fort Lauderdale a "Marine Capital":...
  
  , American mayor
• Robert W. Cox
  Robert W. Cox
  Robert Cox is a former political science professor and United Nations officer. He is cited as one of the intellectual leaders, along with Susan Strange, of the British School of International Political Economy and is still active as a scholar after his formal retirement, writing and giving...
  
  , Canadian international relations academic
• Ron Cox
  Ron Cox
  For the football player of the same name see Ron Cox .Ron Cox , is a driver in the ARCA RE/MAX Series. He was the 1999 Rookie of the Year in that series, and has 31 top-ten finishes so far. He is also a veteran of the U.S. Army...
  
  , American driver
• Ronny Cox
  Ronny Cox
  Daniel Ronald "Ronny" Cox is an American character actor, singer-songwriter and guitarist.-Personal life:Cox, the third of five children, was born in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, the son of Lounette and Bob P. Cox, a carpenter who also worked at a dairy. He grew up in Portales, New Mexico...
  
  , American actor
• Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, British aircraft engineer
• Russell M. Cox
  Russell M. Cox
  Russell M. Cox , was a United States Navy officer killed in action during World War II for whom a U.S. Navy ship was named.-Naval career:Russell Mills Cox was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1919...
  
   (1919-1942), American navy officer

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• Samuel Cox (minister), English Nonconformist minister
• Samuel Hanson Cox
  Samuel Hanson Cox
  Samuel Hanson Cox was an American Presbyterian minister and a leading abolitionist.Cox was born in Rahway, New Jersey, of Quaker stock. After renouncing his religion and serving in the War of 1812, he studied law before entering the ministry He was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Mendham, New...
  
  , American Presbyterian theologian
• Samuel S. Cox
  Samuel S. Cox
  Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox was an American Congressman and diplomat. He represented both Ohio and New York in the United States House of Representatives, and also served as United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.Cox was the grandson of New Jersey Congressman James Cox...
  
  , American Congressman and diplomat
• Sandy Cox
  Sandy Cox
  Sandy Cox of New Philadelphia, Ohio, is an American politician of the Democratic party. She serves as a member of the New Philadelphia city council. She served as a delegate for John Kerry on the Ohio delegation to the 2004 Democratic National Convention....
  
  , American politician
• Sara Cox
  Sara Cox
  Sara Cox , known as "Coxy", is an English TV presenter and radio DJ, most well known for presenting the breakfast show on BBC Radio 1 between 2000 and 2003...
  
  , British presenter for the BBC
• Stephen Cox (cyclist)
  Stephen Cox (cyclist)
  Stephen Clifford Cox is a retired racing cyclist from New Zealand, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics. There he finished in 37th place in the men's individual road race...
  
  , New Zealand cyclist
• Steve Cox
  Steve Cox
  Charles Steven Cox is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays....
  
  , American baseball player
• Steve Cox (American football)
• Steve Cox (artist)
  Steve Cox (artist)
  Steve Cox is an Australian painter and watercolour artist known for his psychologically penetrating images of youths and young men.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Australian artist

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• Tara Cox
  Tara Cox
  Tara Pryor is a association football player who represented New Zealand.Cox made her Football Ferns 1-2 loss to Japan on 2 June 2000, and finished her international career with 4 caps to her credit....
  
  , New Zealand international women's football (soccer) player
• Terry Cox
  Terry Cox
  Terence William Harvey 'Terry' Cox played drums in the British folk rock bands The Pentangle, Duffy's Nucleus and Humblebums....
  
  , folk rock
  Folk rock
  Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...
  
   drummer
• Tiequon Cox
  Tiequon Cox
  Tiequon Aundray "Lil Fee" Cox is a convicted murderer currently incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison.Cox became one of the prime suspects of a quadruple homicide investigation concerning the deaths of Ebora Alexander, aged 59, Dietra Alexander, aged 25, two boys Damon Bonner, aged 6, and...
  
  , American murderer
• Tom Cox
  Tom Cox
  Thomas Michael Cox is a retired Labour party politician in the United Kingdom.Cox was educated at state schools and the London School of Economics after which, according to his entry in Who's Who, he became an "electrical worker"...
  
  , British politician
• Tony Cox, American actor
• Tony Cox
  Tony Cox (South African musician)
  Tony Cox is a Zimbabwean born guitarist and composer based in Cape Town, South Africa. A master of the Fingerpicking style of guitar playing, he has won the SAMA for best instrumental album twice...
  
  , guitarist based in South Africa
• Tricia Nixon Cox, wife of Edward F. Cox and daughter of Richard Nixon

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• Wally Cox
  Wally Cox
  Wallace Maynard Cox was an American comedian and actor, particularly associated with the early years of television in the United States. He appeared in the U.S. TV series Mr. Peepers , plus several other popular shows, and as a character actor in over 20 films...
  
  , American actor
• Wendell Cox
  Wendell Cox
  Wendell Cox is an international public policy consultant. He is the principal and sole owner of Wendell Cox Consultancy/Demographia, based in the St. Louis metropolitan region and editor of three web sites, Demographia, The Public Purpose and Urban Tours by Rental Car...
  
  , public policy consultant
• William Cox (athlete)
  William Cox (athlete)
  William John Cox was an American athlete who competed mainly in the distance events.He competed for the United States in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France in the 3000 metre team where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Edward Kirby and Willard Tibbetts....
  
   (1904–1996), United States Olympic medallist
• William Cox (pioneer)
  William Cox (pioneer)
  William Cox was an English soldier, known as an explorer, road builder and pioneer in the early period of British settlement in Australia.-Early life:...
  
   (1764–1837), constructor of the road across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia
• William Cox (governor)
  William Cox (governor)
  William John Ellis Cox, AC, RFD, ED, QC was Governor of Tasmania from 15 December 2004 to 2 April 2008, prior to which he was the state's Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor....
  
   (born 1936), known as Bill Cox, Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania, Australia
• William George Cox
  William George Cox
  William George Cox was Gold Commissioner for the Cariboo and Boundary Districts in the Colony of British Columbia, Canada during the Rock Creek Gold Rush....
  
   (19th C.), colonial official and Gold Commissioner for the Boundary Country in British Columbia, Canada during the Rock Creek War
• William John Cox
  William John Cox
  William John Cox is an American public interest lawyer, retired prosecutor, author and political activist.- Background :...
  
   (1941), also known as Billy Jack, American public interest lawyer, retired prosecutor, author and political activist
• William Robert Cox
  William Robert Cox
  William Robert Cox was an American author. He was a prolific writer of short stories and Western and Mystery novels mainly for the pulp and paperback markets. He wrote under at least six pseudonyms: Willard d'Arcy, Mike Frederic, John Parkhill, Joel Reeve, Roger G. Spellman and Jonas Ward.He was...
  
   (1901–1988), prolific writer of short stories and Western and Mystery novels mainly for the pulp and paperback markets
• William R. Cox
  William R. Cox
  William Ruffin Cox was an American soldier and politician from the state of North Carolina. He was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, a three-term member of the United States House of Representatives from 1881 to 1887, and Secretary of the United States...
  
   (1832–1919), Confederate general in the United States Civil War, later Secretary of the United States Senate
• William Sitgreaves Cox (1790–1874), court-martialled acting third lieutenant on the USS Chesapeake (1799)