Cocke is a surname and may refer to: Charles Lewis Cocke Professor of Physics at Kansas State University, winner of 2006 Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics Erle Cocke Jr., International banking consultant and lobbyist James Cocke, mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia in the eighteenth century James Richard Cocke, American physician, homeopath, and a pioneer hypnotherapist John Cocke, American computer scientist John Alexander Cocke, American politician who represented Tennessee John Hartwell Cocke, American planter and brigadier general in the War of 1812 Philip St. George Cocke, Confederate general during the American Civil War William Cocke, one of the first U.S. senators from Tennessee W. A. Cocke, third mayor of Louisville, Kentucky William Michael Cocke, grandson of William Cocke who also represented Tennessee. Wikipedia