Sir Cecil Algernon Cochrane DCL JP (24 April 1869 – 23 September 1960) was a British Liberal Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for South Shields in 1916, resigning in 1918. Cochrane was born in Sedgehill, Northumberland, the son of civil engineer William Cochrane and his wife, Eliza Collis. He was educated at Sherborne School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating MA in 1894. In 1905, he married Frances Sibyl Potter, the youngest daughter of Colonel Addison Potter CB, of Heaton Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne. He was knighted in 1933. He died in 1960 in Newcastle upon Tyne, aged 92.