Roscoe (name)
Roscoe 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 Arbuckle, American silent film star
- Roscoe Bartlett, U.S. Representative from the state of Maryland
- Roscoe Beck, American bass guitarist and record producer
- Roscoe Bellamy, American professional pickleball player
- Roscoe Born, American actor
- Roscoe Brady, American biochemist
- Roscoe Brown, US Army Air Force pilot
- Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor and director
- Roscoe Bulmer, US Navy captain
- Roscoe Conkling, American politician
- Roscoe G. Dickinson, American chemist
- Roscoe Dixon, American politician
- Roscoe D'Sane, English footballer
- Roscoe Goose, American jockey
- Rosco Gordon, American blues singer and songwriter
- Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, US Navy vice admiral and first director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- Roscoe Holcomb, American singer and musician
- Roscoe Karns, American actor
- Roscoe R. Koch, American politician
- Roscoe C. McCulloch, American politician
- Rosco McGlashan, Australian drag racing driver
- Roscoe Miller, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Roscoe Mitchell, African-American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator,
- Roscoe Nicholson, American surveyor and conservationist
- Roscoe Orman, American actor and comedian best known for playing Gordon on Sesame Street
- Roscoe Parrish, American National Football League wide receiver
- Roscoe C. Patterson, American Senator and US Representative from Missouri
- Roscoe Pondexter, American basketball player
- Roscoe Pound, American legal scholar and educator
- Roscoe Reynolds, US Senator from Virginia
- Roscoe Robinson, Jr., first African American four-star general in the US Army
- Roscoe Sarles, American race car driver
- Roscow Shedden, Anglican Bishop of Nassau
- Roscoe Shelton, American electric blues and R&B singer
- Roscoe Tanner, American tennis player
- Roscoe Thompson, American NASCAR driver
- Roscoe Troxler, American jockey
- Roscoe Turner, American aviator
- Roscoe B. Woodruff, American major general
People with the surname
- Alan Roscoe, American film actor
- Andy Roscoe, English footballer
- Bill Roscoe, British professor of computing
- B. J. Rosco, American composer
- Francis James Roscoe, Canadian entrepreneur and politician
- Henry Enfield Roscoe, English chemist and university vice-chancellor
- Ingrid Roscoe, British art historian and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire
- James Roscoe, several people
- Kenneth H. Roscoe, British civil engineer
- Margaret Roscoe, English botanical illustrator and author whose standard author abbreviation is M.Roscoe
- Martin Roscoe, English classical pianist
- Patrick Roscoe, Canadian writer
- Samantha Roscoe, Australian-British basketball player
- Theodore Roscoe, American writer
- Will Roscoe, American activist and author
- William Roscoe, English historian and botanist whose standard author abbreviation is Roscoe
- William Caldwell Roscoe, English journalist and poet
- Alan Ruscoe, British actor
- Melissa Ruscoe, New Zealand association football and rugby player
- Scott Ruscoe, Welsh footballer and manager
- Sybil Ruscoe, English radio and television presenter
People with the nickname or stage name
- Roscoe Dash, stage name of American rapper Jeffery Johnson Jr.
- Ross Taylor , New Zealand cricketer
- Herman "Roscoe" Ernest III, American drummer
- Roscoe , brother of Kurupt
- Bronco Mendenhall, Brigham Young University football coach
- Ian Ross , Australian news presenter
- Sterling Roswell, drummer in the British band Spacemen 3
- Terry Ruskowski, Canadian 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
- Roscoe Conklin, police officer in the American TV Series Reacher
- 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