Mycroft

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Mycroft may refer to:

Fictional entities

  • Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes' brother in Arthur Conan Doyle's detective novels
  • Mycroft Holmes (novel), a 2015 novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
  • Mycroft Holmes, a computer in Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  • Mycroft Mixeudeim, main character in the play The Charge of the Expormidable Moose by Claude Gauvreau

Computing

  • Mycroft project, a collection of search plugins for web browsers
  • Mycroft (software), an open source intelligent personal assistant inspired by Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

People

  • Alan Mycroft, co-creator of the Norcroft C compiler
  • Frank Mycroft (1873–1900), an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1893 and 1895
  • Michaela Mycroft (born 1994), South African activist
  • Thomas Mycroft (1848–1911), English cricketer
  • William Mycroft (1841–1894), English cricketer
  • Ian Gillies (1927–2002), question setter and arbiter of the BBC Radio 4 quiz series Brain of Britain

See also

  • Mycroft Next, a character from Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series of books
  • Mycroft & Moran, an imprint of Arkham House publishers
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