Roscoe

Roscoe or Rosco is the name of many things:

Places

United States

• Roscoe, California
• Roscoe, Illinois
• Roscoe, Minnesota
• Roscoe, Missouri
• Roscoe, New York
• Roscoe, Pennsylvania
• Roscoe, South Dakota
• Roscoe, Texas
• Roscoe Village, a neighborhood in North Center, Chicago, Illinois
• Roscoe Village, Ohio
• Roscoe Independent School District, Texas

Canada

• Roscoe Bay Provincial Park, British Columbia
• Roscoe River, flows from Nunavut to Northwest Territories, Canada

People

Given names

• Roscoe Arbuckle ("Fatty" Arbuckle), silent film star
• Roscoe Bartlett, U.S. Representative from the state of Maryland
• Roscoe Born
• Roscoe Brady
• Roscoe Lee Browne
• Roscoe Bulmer
• Roscoe Conking
• James Roscoe Day
• Roscoe G. Dickinson
• William Roscoe Estep
• Rosco Gordon
• Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
• Roscoe Holcomb
• Roscoe C. McCulloch
• Rosco McGlashan, Australian drag racing driver
• Roscoe Mitchell
• Roscoe Nicholson
• Roscoe Orman
• Roscoe Parrish
• Roscoe C. Patterson
• Roscoe Pound
• Roscoe Sarles
• Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
• Roscoe Tanner, tennis player
• William Roscoe Thayer
• Roscoe Turner

Surnames

• Alan Roscoe (1886–1933), American film actor
• Andy Roscoe, English footballer
• Bill Roscoe, 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), author living in San Francisco
• William Roscoe (1753-1831), English historian

Nicknames

• Ross Taylor ("Roscoe" Taylor), New Zealand cricketer
• Roscoe (rapper) (David Williams), brother of Kurupt
• Ian Ross (news), an Australian news presenter

Fictional people

• 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

Other

• Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles, a popular California restaurant chain
• ROSCO, an acronym for British railway rolling stock companies
• Roscoe (novel), by William Kennedy
• Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railroad
• Radio Free Roscoe, a teen drama from Canada
• Roscoe, the opening track on Texas band Midlake's second studio album, The Trials of Van Occupanther
• "Roscoe" type displacement lubricator, invented by James Roscoe

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Rosco
• All pages with titles beginning with Roscoe