Roscoe

Roscoe, Rosco or Roscow may refer to:

Places

United States

• Roscoe, California (disambiguation)
• Roscoe Township (disambiguation)
• Roscoe, Illinois, a village
• Roscoe, Minnesota, a city
• Roscoe, Goodhue County, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
• Roscoe, Missouri, a village
• Roscoe, Montana, a settlement
• Roscoe, Nebraska
• Roscoe, New York, a hamlet
• Roscoe, Pennsylvania, a borough
• Roscoe, South Dakota, a city
• Roscoe, Texas, a town
• Roscoe Village, a neighborhood in North Center, Chicago, Illinois
• Roscoe Village (Coshocton, Ohio)
• Roscoe Independent School District, Texas

Canada

• Roscoe River, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, Canada
• Roscoe Glacier, Queen Mary Land, Antarctica

People

Given names

• 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 (born 1950), American actor
• Roscoe Brady, American biochemist
• Roscoe Brown (born 1922), 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 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 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
• 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

Surnames

• Alan Roscoe (1886–1933), American film actor
• Andy Roscoe, English footballer
• Bill Roscoe (born 1956), British professor of computing
• Francis James Roscoe (1831-1878), Canadian entrepreneur and politician
• Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833-1915), English chemist and university vice-chancellor
• Ingrid Roscoe (born 1944), art historian and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire
• Kenneth H. Roscoe (1914-1970), British civil engineer
• Martin Roscoe (born 1952), English classical pianist
• Patrick Roscoe (born 1962), Canadian writer
• Theodore Roscoe (1906-1992), American writer
• Will Roscoe (born 1964), American activist and author
• William Roscoe (1753-1831), English historian

Nicknames and stage names

• Roscoe Dash, stage name of American rapper Jeffery Johnson Jr. (born 1990)
• Ross Taylor ("Roscoe" Taylor) (born 1984), New Zealand cricketer
• Roscoe (rapper) (born 1983), brother of Kurupt
• Ian Ross (newsreader) (1940–2014), Australian news presenter
• Sterling Roswell, drummer in the British band Spacemen 3
• Brigham Young University football coach Bronco Mendenhall

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 channel 4 programme Shameless
• Roscoe family, characters in the British soap opera Hollyoaks

Other

• Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles, a popular California restaurant chain
• Roscoe Wind Farm, Roscoe, Texas
• ROSCO, an acronym for British railway rolling stock companies
• Roscoe (Los Angeles Metro station)
• Roscoe (novel), by William Kennedy
• "Roscoe" (song), a song by Midlake
• "Roscoe" type displacement lubricator, invented by James Roscoe
• Roscoe (software product) a software program used on mainframe computers

See also

• Rosko (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Rosco"
• All pages beginning with "Roscoe"