Roscoe
Roscoe, Rosco or Roscow can refer to the following:
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, 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
- Martin Roscoe (born 1952), English classical pianist
- Mary Roscoe, Zimbabwean actor
- 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), New Zealand cricketer
- Roscoe (rapper) (David Williams), brother of Kurupt
- Ian Ross (news), an 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, an ironic deity (a "Ghod") in science fiction fandom, whose shape is a beaver and whose birthday is Labor Day.
- Hollyoaks features the Roscoe family, consisting of matriarch Sandy, and her sons Joe and his fiancée, Lindsey Butterfield, Freddie and his wife Sinead, Ziggy, Robbie and Jason.
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
- Rosco Laboratories,www.rosco.com a manufacturer of theatrical materials since 1910.
- Roscoe (software product) a software program used on mainframe computers.
- The Roscoe Company, www.eroscoe.com, an industrial uniform and mat rental and laundry in Chicago, Illinois, since 1921.
See also
- Rosko (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Rosco"
- All pages beginning with "Roscoe"