Badcock is a surname of English origin, properly 'Bartcock', or son of Bartholemew. In his history of the Badcock family, published in "Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, London, 1927" Colonel J.C Tyler writes of his research into the Badcock name: "... One cannot fail to be struck with the great number of priests, parsons and men of literary repute. There are also in evidence merchants both by sea and by land, also landowners, soldiers and sailors, besides those engaged in the principal industry of weaving in Devon and Somerset, which includes the woolcombers, sergemakers and men of similar crafts".
Notable persons with this surname have included:
General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock, KCB, CSI (1844–1907), British general in the Indian ArmyJack Clement Badcock (20th century), English naturalist, historian, columnist, writer and painterJack Badcock (1914–1982), Australian cricketerJohn Badcock (writer) (fl. 1816 - 1830), English sporting writerJohn Badcock (cricketer) (1883–1940), English cricketerJohn Badcock (artist) (born 1952), New Zealand artistJohn Badcock (rower) (1903–1976), British rowerLovell Badcock (1744–1797), High Sheriff of BuckinghamshireGeneral Sir Lovell Benjamin Lovell (Badcock) (1786–1861), British lieutenant-generalPeter Badcock (1934–1967), Australian recipient of the Victoria CrossRichard Neale Badcock (1721–1783), English merchant and a director of the South Sea CompanySamuel Badcock (1747–1788), English theologian and literary criticTed Badcock (1897–1982), New Zealand Test cricketerThomas Stanhope Badcock (1749–1821), High Sheriff of BuckinghamshireWilliam Badcock (1622–1698), London goldsmith, hilt-maker and authorVice Admiral William Stanhope Lovell (Badcock) (1788–1859), British vice-admiral and veteran of Trafalgar