Roscoe (name)

Roscoe (also spelled Rosco, Roscow, and Ruscoe ) is a Cornish name originating from the Old Norse words for "doe wood" or "roebuck copse". It is also an Americanized spelling of the French name Racicot, and possibly a corruption of Roscrowe.

People with the given name

 * Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (1877–1933), silent film star
 * Roscoe Bartlett (born 1926), U.S. Representative from the state of Maryland
 * Roscoe Beck, American bass guitarist and record producer
 * Roscoe Born (1950–2020), American actor
 * Roscoe Brady (1923–2016), American biochemist
 * Roscoe Brown (1922–2016), US Army Air Force pilot
 * Roscoe Lee Browne (1925–2007), American actor and director
 * Roscoe Bulmer (1874–1919), US Navy captain
 * Roscoe Conkling (1829–1888), American politician
 * Roscoe G. Dickinson (1894–1945), American chemist
 * Roscoe Dixon (1949–2021), American politician
 * Roscoe D'Sane (born 1980), English footballer
 * Roscoe Goose (1891–1971), American jockey
 * Rosco Gordon (1928–2002), American blues singer and songwriter
 * Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (1897–1982), US Navy vice admiral and first director of the Central Intelligence Agency
 * Roscoe Holcomb (1912–1981), American singer and musician
 * Roscoe Karns (1891–1970), American actor
 * Roscoe R. Koch (1887–1963), American politician
 * Roscoe C. McCulloch (1880–1958), American politician
 * Rosco McGlashan (born 1950), Australian drag racing driver
 * Roscoe Miller (1876–1913), American Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Roscoe Mitchell (born 1940), African-American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator,
 * Roscoe Nicholson (1887–1959), American surveyor and conservationist
 * Roscoe Orman (born 1944), American actor and comedian best known for playing Gordon on Sesame Street
 * Roscoe Parrish (born 1982), American National Football League wide receiver
 * Roscoe C. Patterson (1876–1954), American Senator and US Representative from Missouri
 * Roscoe Pondexter (born 1952), American basketball player
 * Roscoe Pound (1870–1964), American legal scholar and educator
 * Roscoe Reynolds (born 1942), US Senator from Virginia
 * Roscoe Robinson, Jr. (1928–1993), first African American four-star general in the US Army
 * Roscoe Sarles (1892–1922), American race car driver
 * Roscow Shedden, Anglican Bishop of Nassau (1919–1931)
 * Roscoe Shelton (1931–2002), American electric blues and R&B singer
 * Roscoe Tanner (born 1951), American retired tennis player
 * Roscoe Thompson (1922–1988), American NASCAR driver
 * Roscoe Troxler (1883–1976), American jockey
 * Roscoe Turner (1895–1970), American aviator
 * Roscoe B. Woodruff (1891–1975), American major general

People with the surname

 * Alan Roscoe (1886–1933), American film actor
 * Andy Roscoe, English footballer
 * Bill Roscoe (born 1956), British professor of computing
 * B. J. Rosco (born 1932), American composer
 * Francis James Roscoe (1831–1878), Canadian entrepreneur and politician
 * Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833–1915), English chemist and university vice-chancellor
 * Ingrid Roscoe (1944–2020), art historian and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire
 * James Roscoe (1820–1890), English locomotive engineer and colliery owner
 * Kenneth H. Roscoe (1914–1970), British civil engineer
 * Margaret Roscoe (c. 1786 – 1840), English botanical illustrator and author whose standard author abbreviation is M.Roscoe
 * Martin Roscoe (born 1952), English classical pianist
 * Patrick Roscoe (born 1962), Canadian writer
 * Samantha Roscoe (born 1995), Australian-British basketball player
 * Theodore Roscoe (1906–1992), American writer
 * Will Roscoe (born 1964), American activist and author
 * William Roscoe (1753–1831), English historian and botanist whose standard author abbreviation is Roscoe
 * William Caldwell Roscoe (1823–1859), English journalist and poet
 * Alan Ruscoe (born 1972), British actor
 * John Ruscoe (1623–1702), founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut
 * Melissa Ruscoe (born 1976), New Zealand association football and rugby player
 * Scott Ruscoe (born 1977), Welsh footballer and manager
 * Sybil Ruscoe (born 1960), English radio and television presenter

People with the nickname or stage name

 * Roscoe Dash, stage name of American rapper Jeffery Johnson Jr. (born 1990)
 * Ross Taylor ("Roscoe" Taylor) (born 1984), New Zealand cricketer
 * Herman "Roscoe" Ernest III (1951–2011), American drummer
 * Roscoe (rapper) (born 1983), brother of Kurupt
 * Bronco Mendenhall (born 1966), Brigham Young University football coach
 * Ian Ross (newsreader) (1940–2014), Australian news presenter
 * Sterling Roswell, drummer in the British band Spacemen 3
 * Terry Ruskowski (born 1954), Canadian former National Hockey League player nicknamed "Roscow"

Fictional characters

 * Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, from The Dukes of Hazzard
 * Michael J. Roscoe and his son Paul Roscoe, from the second book in Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series, Point Blanc
 * Roscoe, mascot of the Milwaukee Admirals minor league hockey team
 * Roscoe, character from the British Channel 4 programme Shameless
 * Roscoe Babatunde, character from the British Channel 4 programme It's a Sin (TV series)
 * Roscoe, character from Oliver & Company
 * Roscoe family, characters in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
 * Roscoe Rodriguez, the main protagonist of the British comic book series MPH
 * Roscoe Sweeney, character in the newspaper comic strip Buz Sawyer
 * Roscoe Sweeney, character from Marvel's Daredevil
 * Roscoe, from The Killing Floor by Lee Child