Louise Cochrane (22 December 1918 – 13 February 2012) was an American-born writer and television producer best known for creating the BBC Children's TV programme Rag, Tag and Bobtail in the early 1950s.

She also wrote a series of career guidance books for young people and a biography of the 12th-century philosopher Adelard of Bath.

There in 1942 she met Scotsman Peter Cochrane, a delegate visiting from Britain,[3] within a year she had joined him in England,[1] and the couple were married a few weeks later.

[2] Cochrane joined the BBC in 1948 as a producer of schools' news and current affairs programmes, and was appointed to the Fulbright Commission two years later.

[1] In 1953 Cochrane wrote the first of her 26 episodes of Rag, Tag and Bobtail,[4] a children's television series that "continues to be remembered with affection".