Cockrell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Cockrell, American major league baseball player Alvin C. Cockrell, American serviceman in World War II; Navy Cross winner Amanda Cockrell, Hollins University professor Byron Lavoy Cockrell, American engineer Bud Cockrell, American musician and band member Chris Cockrell, bass player with Kyuss Francis Cockrell, U.S. senator from Missouri and Confederate general Gene Cockrell (born 1934), American football player Jeremiah V. Cockrell, U.S. congressman from Texas and Confederate officer Kenneth Cockrell, American astronaut Lila Cockrell, former mayor of San Antonio, Texas Nathan Elams Cockrell, fraternity founder Phil Cockrell, Negro league baseball player Thad Cockrell, American musician Simon Cockrell (1745-1835) was an American Baptist minister and politician from Virginia. See also Cockrell, Missouri, an unincorporated community Cockrell Hill, Texas, a city in Texas USS Alvin C. Cockrell (DE-366), American naval vessel Cockrell School of Engineering, college of The University of Texas at Austin