{{Infobox surname | name = Adcock | pronunciation = | image = | caption = | meaning = | region = England | languageorigin = | variant = Atcock, Hadcock * meaning: "Adam's son" or "offspring of Adam" | family = | footnotes = Frequency Comparisons:{{r|"forebears"}} }}
'''Adcock''' is an English surname.{{r|"Hanks Coates McClure 2016"}}{{r|"Browne Reaney Wilson Scull 1991"}} Notable people with the surname include:
* Alfred Adcock (1916–2005), English cricketer * Arthur St. John Adcock (1864–1930), English novelist, journalist and poet * Betty Adcock, American poet * Brett Adcock (born 1986), American tech entrepreneur * C. C. Adcock (born 1971), American musician * Chris Adcock, English badminton player * Clarence Lionel Adcock (1895–1967), American Army Officer * Eddie Adcock, American bluegrass musician * Fleur Adcock (1934–2024), New Zealand poet * Frank Adcock, British engineer, inventor of the Adcock antenna * Gabby Adcock, English badminton player * Gavin Adcock, American country music singer * Sir Frank Adcock (1886–1968), English classical historian * Hugh Adcock (1903–1975), English footballer * Jamar Adcock (1917–1999), American politician and banker * Jed Adcock (born 1985), Australian rules footballer * Joe Adcock (1927–1999), Major League Baseball player * Joseph Adcock (1864–1914), English cricketer and clergyman * Levy Adcock, American football player * Nathan Adcock (baseball), Major League Baseball player * Neil Adcock (1931–2013), South African cricketer * Sally Adcock, English actress, known for ''Tom Grattan's War'' * Ty Adcock (born 1997), Major League Baseball player * William Adcock (businessman) (1846–1931), Australian journalist * William Adcock (politician) (1850–1926), American politician and farmer * Willis Adcock (1922–2003), American chemist and electrical engineer
Other topics referred to by the term '''Adcock''' include: * Adcock antenna, antenna arrangement used for direction finding * An elementary school in the Clark County School District * Adcock River, river in Western Australia
== References == <references>
<ref name="Browne Reaney Wilson Scull 1991">{{cite book | last1 = Browne | first1 = W.A.F. | last2 = Reaney | first2 = P.H. | last3 = Wilson | first3 = R.M. | last4 = Scull | first4 = A. | title = A Dictionary of English Surnames | publisher = Routledge | series = Tavistock classics in the history of psychiatry | year = 1991 | isbn = 978-0-415-05737-0 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5sVq7VQlNwcC&pg=PA12 | access-date = 19 August 2018 | page = 12 }}</ref> <ref name="forebears">{{cite web | url = http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/adcock | title = Adcock Meaning and Distribution | publisher = forebears.co.uk }} Retrieved 25 January 2014</ref> <ref name="Hanks Coates McClure 2016">{{cite book | last1 = Hanks | first1 = P. | last2 = Coates | first2 = R. | last3 = McClure | first3 = P. | title = The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland | publisher = OUP Oxford | year = 2016 | isbn = 978-0-19-252747-9 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0AyDDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 | access-date = 2 September 2018 | page = 13 }}</ref>
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Category:English-language surnames