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, aka, Mike, a computer in Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Computing
- Mycroft project, a collection of search plugins for web browsers
- Mycroft (software), an open source intelligent personal virtual assistant, the name inspired by the Robert A. Heinlein character in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle character in Sherlock Holmes
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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