Babcock

Babcock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alpheus Babcock (1785–1842), American piano and musical instrument maker
• Barbara Babcock (born 1937), American actress
• Betty Lee Babcock (1922–2013), American businesswoman and politician
• Christine Babcock, American runner
• Courtney Babcock (born 1972), Canadian runner
• Edward V. Babcock (1864–1948), former mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• E. B. Babcock (Ernest Brown Babcock, 1877–1954), American plant geneticist
• George Herman Babcock (1832–1893), American inventor
• Harold D. Babcock (1882–1968), American astronomer
• Horace W. Babcock (1912–2003), American astronomer
• Ira L. Babcock (1808-1888), American pioneer and judge
• John Babcock (1900-2010), last surviving Canadian WWI veteran
• John C. Babcock (1863-1908), rowing pioneer and American Civil War spy
• Joseph Park Babcock (1893-1949), American Mahjong promoter
• Lorenzo A. Babcock, first attorney general of Minnesota Territory
• Maud Babcock (1867-1954), American educator
• Mike Babcock (born 1963), Canadian hockey head coach and former player
• Orville E. Babcock (1835–1884), American Civil War General
• Rob Babcock, former general manager of the Toronto Raptors NBA basketball team
• Roscoe Lloyd Babcock, (1897-1981) California artist
• Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843–1931), American agricultural chemist
• Tim M. Babcock (born 1919), former governor of Montana
• Warren Babcock (1866-1913), American politician and educator
• Wendy Babcock (1979–2011), Canadian activist for the rights of sex workers

Fictional characters:

• Babcock (The Passage)
• Iris Babcock, Sergeant-Major from the Honorverse
• C. C. Babcock, on the sitcom The Nanny
• Billy Babcock, in Flush by Carl Hiaasen
• Sir John Babcock, Baronet; Characters with the same name, separated by 125 years, who appear in Masks of the Illuminati, and The Historical Illuminatus series, by Robert Anton Wilson. Babcocks also appear in the Illuminatus! trilogy proper.

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