Cox (surname)

• Alex Cox, film director of Sid and Nancy
• Alan Cox, leader in Linux
• Alan Cox, American radio presenter
• Allan V. Cox, American geologist
• Ana Marie Cox, American blogger and author
• Andy Cox, British guitarist
• Anne Cox, media owner, daughter of James M.
• Anthony Cox, jazz musician, former husband of Yoko Ono
• Anthony Berkeley Cox, British writer
• Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy; first Special Prosecutor appointed to investigate the Watergate scandal
• Arthur Cox, British actor
• Arthur Cox, British football manager
• Barbara Cox, media owner, daughter of James M.
• Billy Cox, American bass guitarist
• Billy Cox (baseball player) (1919–1978), American Major League Baseball middle infielder
• Bobby Cox, American baseball manager
• Brad Cox, American computer scientist, developer of Objective-C
• Brian Cox, Scottish actor
• Brian Cox, British physicist
• Bryan Michael Cox, songwriter
• Carl Cox, British musician
• Catharine Cox, American psychologist
• Catherine Cox, American Actress
• Cathy Cox, American politician
• Channing H. Cox, American politician
• Charles Cox, various people of that name
• Chip Cox, American football player
• Chris Cox, several people, including:
• Chris Cox, SEC chairman
• Chris Cox (actor)
• Chris Cox (DJ), dance music producer
• Christina Cox, Canadian actress
• Christopher Augustus Cox, British soldier
• Constance Cox, British scriptwriter
• Courteney Cox, American actress
• Curome Cox, American football player
• Danny Cox, MLB pitcher who played in three different world series contests
• Dave Cox, American politician
• David Cox, several people, including:
• David Cox (Australian politician), former member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Kingston
• David Cox (artist), prominent English landscape painter
• Sir David Cox (statistician), prominent British statistician
• Dean Cox, Australian Rules footballer
• Deborah Cox, Canadian singer
• Dewey Cox, a fictional musician and subject of the comedic film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
• Diane W. Cox, Canadian medical geneticist
• Doc Cox, British television personality, sound engineer and rude singer
• Donna Cox, American Professor of Art
• Ed Cox, keyboardist from Scottish band The Hurricanes
• Edward F. Cox, New York lawyer and potential politician
• Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician
• Emily Cox, several people, including:
• Emily Cox (compiler)
• Emily Cox (councillor)
• Ernest Cox, British engineer
• Fred Cox, American football player
• Freddie Cox, English football player
• Gemma Cox, British editor
• Geoffrey Cox, British barrister and politician
• Geoffrey Cox (journalist) (1910-2008), British television journalist
• George Cox, several people, including:
• George Cox (Ottawa mayor) (1834–1909), mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, 1894
• George Albertus Cox (1840–1914), Canadian capitalist and Senator
• George William Cox (1827–1902), British historian
• Geraldine Cox, Australian orphanage administrator in Cambodia
• Gertrude Mary Cox, American statistician
• Greg Cox, American science fiction writer
• Harold Roxbee Cox, British aircraft engineer
• Harry Cox, British traditional singer
• Harvey Cox, American theologian
• Heather Cox, American Idol contestant (Season 5)
• Herald R. Cox, American bacteriologist
• Herbie Cox, U.S. musician
• Hiram Cox, chess historian (Cox-Forbes theory)
• Ida Cox, blues and jazz musician
• Isaac Joslin Cox, American historian
• Jacob Dolson Cox, American soldier and politician
• James Cox, several people, including:
• James Cox (Representative)
• Father James Cox, American Catholic priest and activist
• James Cox, inventor of Cox's timepiece
• James M. Cox, American publisher and politician, Governor of Ohio and Democratic presidential nominee in 1920
• Jamie Cox, Australian cricketer
• Jan Cox, several people, including:
• Jan Cox, artist
• Jan Cox, American philosopher
• Jennings Cox, American mining engineer and supposed inventor of the daiquiri
• Jeromy Cox, comics colorist
• Joël Cox, Oscar award winning movie editor
• John Cox, several people, including:
• Sir John Cox (1928–2006), a British Royal Navy admiral

• John Cox (cartoonist), an American cartoonist
• John Cox (cricketer), a Tasmanian-Australian cricket player

• John Arthur "Chubby" Cox III (b. 1955), an American basketball player
• John B. Cox, a British-Australian ornithologist
• John Carrington Cox, an American professor and economist
• John Herman Cox (b. 1955), an Illinois politician, businessman, and radio host, Republican
• John Isaac Cox (1855–1946), a governor of Tennessee
• John "Jack" Cox, a British cinematographer for the film Rich and Strange
• John R. Cox, Jr. (1913–1995), the birth name of American actor John Howard

• John Thomas "Jack" Cox (1877–1955), a British footballer and manager
• John W. Cox, Jr. (b. 1947), an Illinois lawyer and former Congressman, Democrat

• Kathy Cox, American politician
• Kathy Cox (skydiver), Canadian skydiver

• Richard Cox, Anglican bishop of the sixteenth century
• Richard Calvin Cox, disappeared American cadet
• Richard Threlkeld Cox, physicist and statistician (Cox's theorem)

• William Cox (athletics) (1904–1996), United States Olympic medallist
• William Cox (pioneer) (1764–1837), constructor of the road across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia
• William Cox (Tasmania) (born 1936), known as Bill Cox, Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania, Australia
• William Cox (UK politician) (1817–1889), Member of Parliament for Finsbury 1857–59, 1861–65
• William George Cox (19th C.), colonial official and Gold Commissioner for the Boundary Country in British Columbia, Canada during the Rock Creek War
• William Robert Cox (1901–1988), prolific writer of short stories and Western and Mystery novels mainly for the pulp and paperback markets
• William Ruffin Cox (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)

See also

• Coxe
• Cocks (surname)
• Coxon
• Cock (surname)