Rocco


Rocco or Rocko is both a given name and a surname. Rocco is a masculine name of Italian origin. It is thought to derive from the Old German word "hrok", which means to rest or repose. The name is associated with a fourteenth-century Catholic saint, San Rocco, who tended to the ill during a plague. Notable people with the name include:

First name

  • Rocco Baldelli, American Major League Baseball player and manager of the Minnesota Twins
  • Rocco Botte, American actor and filmmaker
  • Rocco Buttiglione, Italian politician
  • Rocco Chinnici, Italian magistrate killed by the Mafia
  • Rocco "Rocky" Colavito, American Major League Baseball player
  • Rocco B. Commisso, Italian and American businessman, founder of Mediacom
  • Rocco DiSpirito, American celebrity chef and reality show actor
  • Rocco Fischetti, American mobster
  • Sir Rocco Forte, British businessman
  • Rocco Granata, Italian-Belgian singer, songwriter, and accordionist
  • Rocco Grimaldi, American ice hockey player
  • Rocco Hunt, Italian rapper
  • Rocco Landesman, Broadway producer
  • Rocco Marchegiano, better known as Rocky Marciano, American heavyweight boxer
  • Rocco Mediate, American golfer
  • Rocco Milde, German former footballer
  • Rocco Nacino, a Filipino actor
  • Rocco Perri, Canadian bootlegger
  • Rocco Petrone, Italian-American engineer and NASA executive
  • Rocco Placentino, Canadian soccer player
  • Rocco Pozzi, Italian painter and engraver
  • Rocco Quinn, Scottish footballer
  • Rocco Reitz, German footballer
  • Rocco Rossi, Canadian politician
  • Rocco Siffredi, Italian pornographic film actor
  • Rocco Silano, American magician and actor
  • Rocco Spindler, American football player
  • Rocco Steele, American gay pornographic film actor
  • Rocco van Straten, Dutch snowboarder
  • Rocco Zikarsky, Australian basketball player

    Surname

  • Alex Rocco, American actor
  • Alfredo Rocco, Italian jurist and Fascist politician, author of the Italian Penal Code
  • Carmine Rocco, Vatican diplomat
  • Danny Rocco, American college football head coach
  • David Rocco, Canadian actor and producer, host of David Rocco's Dolce Vita
  • David Della Rocco, actor
  • John A. Rocco, American politician
  • Keith Rocco, contemporary American military painter
  • Keith Rocco
  • Lyla Rocco, Italian film actress
  • Marc Rocco, American film director, producer and screenwriter
  • Mickey Rocco, American Major League Baseball first baseman
  • Nereo Rocco, Italian football player and manager
  • Pasquale Rocco, Italian retired footballer
  • Steve Rocco, American skateboarder and retired businessman
  • Steve Rocco , Canadian boxer
  • Steve Rocco, contemporary American politician
  • Tonette S. Rocco, American academic

    Nickname, stage name or ring name

  • Rocko , American rapper and actor
  • Dick "Rocko" Lewis, American entertainer
  • Rocco Hunt, Italian rapper
  • Rocco Prestia, bass player for the band Tower of Power
  • Rocco Mandroid, member of the New Zealand punk band the Futurians
  • Rocko Schamoni, German entertainer, author and musician
  • Rocco Rock, American professional wrestler
  • Mark Rocco, English retired professional wrestler
  • Rocco Nacino, Filipino actor

    Fictional characters

  • Johnny Rocco, fugitive gangster in the 1948 film Key Largo, played by Edward G. Robinson
  • Rocco Fuentes Echaguei, a fictional character in the 2002–2003 Argentine teenage telenovella Rebelde Way
  • Rocco Parondi, in the 1960 Italian film Rocco and His Brothers
  • Rocco Pelosi, a supportive character in Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony and GTA V.
  • Rocco the Beaver, a puppet on the Danish TV series Dolph & Wulff med Venner
  • Rocco the Dog, a puppet on the Canadian TV series Puppets Who Kill
  • Rocco de' Medici, a master swordsman and long-lost heir to the late Duke of Florence in the TV series Leonardo.
  • Rocco Barbella, one of Sergeant Bilko's corporals in The Phil Silvers Show
  • Rocco Lampone, a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.
  • Rocco, the puppy saved by Tom Hardy's character in The Drop
  • Rocko, from Rocko's Modern Life, a 1990s Nickelodeon animated series
  • Rocko, from the cartoon series Undergrads
  • Rocky Balboa, from the Rocky film series starring Sylvester Stallone as the films' title character, who is sometimes called Rocco.
  • Rocko, a penguin from the 1995 animated film The Pebble and the Penguin.
  • Rocco, Zoe's pet rock and Elmo's nemesis on Sesame Street.

    Other

  • The West Maple Omaha Rock, a boulder in Omaha, Nebraska, nicknamed Rocko