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Roscoe (name)


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

See also

  • Roscoe (disambiguation)
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References


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