Mycroft

Mycroft may refer to:

Family name
  • Frank Mycroft (1873–1900), an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1893 and 1895
  • Thomas Mycroft (1848–1911), an English cricketer
  • William Mycroft (1841–1894), an English cricketer
  • Mycroft & Moran, an imprint of Arkham House publishers created in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1945
Given name
  • Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes' brother in Arthur Conan Doyle's well-known detective novels
    • The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chase
Other
  • Ian Gillies, late question setter and arbiter of the BBC Radio 4 quiz series Brain of Britain
  • Mycroft Holmes (computer), a self-aware computer in Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  • The Mycroft project, a collection of search plugins for web browsers
  • Mycroft Next, a character from Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series of books