Hocking is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Amanda Hocking, American writer
Gary Hocking, Welsh motorcycle racer
Garry Hocking, Australian rules football player for the Geelong Football Club
Heath Hocking, Australian rules football player for Essendon
Silas Hocking, Methodist minister, and Victorian novelist
Joseph Hocking, Cornish novelist and United Methodist Free Church minister
Anne Hocking, English crime writer
William Ernest Hocking, American Idealist philosopher
