# 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), American silent film star
* Roscoe Bartlett (born 1926), U.S. Representative from the state of Maryland
* Roscoe Beck, American bass guitarist and record producer
* Roscoe Bellamy (born 2000), American professional pickleball player
* 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 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), British 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), English 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 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, 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