Places

• Roscoe, California (disambiguation)
• Roscoe, Illinois
  Roscoe, Illinois
  Roscoe is a village in Winnebago County, Illinois, a suburb of Rockford incorporated in 1965. The village is in a suburban area along the Rock River. It is part of the Rockford, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 10,785, up from 6,244 at the...
  
  
• Roscoe, Minnesota
  Roscoe, Minnesota
  Roscoe is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 102 at the 2010 census. It is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
  
• Roscoe, Missouri
  Roscoe, Missouri
  Roscoe is a village in St. Clair County, Missouri in the United States of America. The population was 112 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Roscoe is located at ....
  
  
• Roscoe, Nebraska
  Roscoe, Nebraska
  Roscoe is an unincorporated community in Keith County, Nebraska, United States. Its altitude is 3,173 feet ....
  
  
• Roscoe, New York
  Roscoe, New York
  Roscoe is a hamlet in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 597 at the 2000 census.Roscoe is in the southwest part of the Town of Rockland, adjacent to New York State Route 17....
  
  
• Roscoe, Pennsylvania
  Roscoe, Pennsylvania
  Roscoe is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 848 at the 2000 census.-History:The Allenport & Roscoe Street Railway was formed in 1903 and was purchased by Pittsburgh Railways to form part of their interurban line to Pittsburgh in 1906. The extension to...
  
  
• Roscoe, South Dakota
  Roscoe, South Dakota
  Roscoe is a city in Edmunds County, South Dakota in the United States. The population was 329 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Roscoe is located at ....
  
  
• Roscoe, Texas
  Roscoe, Texas
  Roscoe is a town in Nolan County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,378 at the 2000 census, but has decreased to only 900.-Geography:Roscoe is located at ....
  
  
• Roscoe Village, a neighborhood in North Center, Chicago, Illinois
• Roscoe Village, Ohio
• Roscoe Independent School District
  Roscoe Independent School District
  Roscoe Independent School District is a public school district based in Roscoe, Texas .Located in Nolan County, small portions of the district extend into Fisher, Mitchell, and Scurry counties....
  
  , Texas

• Roscoe Bay Provincial Park
  Roscoe Bay Provincial Park
  Roscoe Bay Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, comprising the southeast portion of West Redonda Island, facing Desolation Sound.-References:...
  
  , British Columbia
• Roscoe River
  Roscoe River
  The Roscoe River is a waterway located above the Arctic Circle on the mainland of Northern Canada.It originates at in western Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, northwest of Bluenose Lake...
  
  , flows from Nunavut to Northwest Territories, Canada

Given names

• Roscoe Arbuckle ("Fatty" Arbuckle), silent film star
• Roscoe Bartlett
  Roscoe Bartlett
  Roscoe Gardner Bartlett, Ph.D. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993. He is a member of the Republican Party, and a member of the Tea Party Caucus...
  
  , U.S. Representative from the state of Maryland
• Roscoe Born
  Roscoe Born
  Roscoe Born is an American actor, born in Topeka, Kansas, who is best known for playing a variety of roles over the years in successful television shows, most recently in The Young and the Restless.-Career:...
  
  
• Roscoe Brady
  Roscoe Brady
  Roscoe O. Brady M.D., is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a part of the National Institute of Health, USA, where he is currently the chief of the Developmental and Metabolic Neurology Branch. Brady graduated from Pennsylvania State University and...
  
  
• Roscoe Lee Browne
  Roscoe Lee Browne
  Roscoe Lee Browne was an American actor and director, known for his rich voice and dignified bearing.-Biography:Browne was the fourth son of a Baptist minister, Sylvanus S. Browne, and his wife Lovie...
  
  
• Roscoe Bulmer
  Roscoe Bulmer
  Captain Roscoe Carlyle Bulmer, USN was an officer in the United States Navy. His active-duty career extended from the 1890s until just after World War I....
  
  
• Roscoe Conkling
  Roscoe Conkling
  Roscoe Conkling was a politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was the leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party and the last person to refuse a U.S. Supreme Court appointment after he had...
  
  
• James Roscoe Day
  James Roscoe Day
  James Roscoe Day was an American educator.-Biography:He was born in Whitneyville, Maine on June 7, 1845. He studied at Bowdoin College, and was in 1872 ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church...
  
  
• Roscoe G. Dickinson
  Roscoe G. Dickinson
  Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson was a U.S. chemist, known primarily for his work on X-ray crystallography. As professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology , he was the doctoral advisor of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and of Arnold O...
  
  
• William Roscoe Estep
  William Roscoe Estep
  William Roscoe Estep was an American Baptist historian and professor. He was considered an authority on the Anabaptist movement.-Career and life:...
  
  
• Rosco Gordon
  Rosco Gordon
  Rosco Gordon was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known for his 1952 #1 R&B hit single, "Booted", and two #2 singles "No More Doggin'" and "Just a Little Bit" .-Biography:...
  
  
• Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
  Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
  Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter , born in St. Louis, Missouri, was the third director of the post-World War II U.S. Central Intelligence Group , the third Director of Central Intelligence , and the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency created by the National Security Act of 1947...
  
  
• Roscoe Holcomb
  Roscoe Holcomb
  Roscoe Holcomb, was an American singer, banjo player, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky. A prominent figure in Appalachian folk music, Holcomb was the inspiration for the term "high, lonesome sound," coined by folklorist and friend John Cohen...
  
  
• Roscoe C. McCulloch
  Roscoe C. McCulloch
  Roscoe Conkling McCulloch was a Republican politician from Ohio who served in the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senate....
  
  
• Rosco McGlashan
  Rosco McGlashan
  Rosco McGlashan OAM is an Australian drag racing record-holder, who currently holds the Australian land speed record at 500 mph . This record was set on the 27 March 1994 on the dry salt flats of Lake Gairdner, South Australia northwest of Adelaide.- Aussie Invader II :McGlashan set the...
  
  , Australian drag racing driver
• Roscoe Mitchell
  Roscoe Mitchell
  Roscoe Mitchell is an African American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb—if idiosyncratic—saxophonist." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past...
  
  
• Roscoe Nicholson
  Roscoe Nicholson
  Roscoe Nicholson was a surveyor and early advocate of conservation, who played an important role in preserving forest land in the U.S. state of Georgia in the early 20th century....
  
  
• Roscoe Orman
  Roscoe Orman
  Roscoe Hunter Orman is an American actor who plays Gordon Robinson on the television program Sesame Street. Orman joined the show in 1973, taking over as the third actor to play Gordon on the show...
  
  
• Roscoe Parrish
  Roscoe Parrish
  Roscoe Parrish is an American football wide receiver and punt returner who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Bills in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft...
  
  
• Roscoe C. Patterson
  Roscoe C. Patterson
  Roscoe Conkling Patterson was a United States Representative and Senator from Missouri.Born in Springfield, Missouri, he attended public and private schools, Drury College, and the University of Missouri in Columbia. He graduated from the law department of Washington University Roscoe Conkling...
  
  
• Roscoe Pound
  Roscoe Pound
  Nathan Roscoe Pound was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator. He was Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936...
  
  
• Roscoe Sarles
  Roscoe Sarles
  Roscoe Sarles was an American racecar driver active in the formative years of auto racing. Sarles was killed in an Indy car event, when his steering broke.-Indy 500 results:...
  
  
• Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
  Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
  The Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing F.R.S., F.L.S. was a British zoologist, who described himself as "a serf to natural history, principally employed about Crustacea". Educated in London and Oxford, he only took to natural history in his thirties, having worked as a teacher until then...
  
  
• Roscoe Tanner
  Roscoe Tanner
  Roscoe Tanner is an American former professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1972 and reached a career high world singles ranking of World No...
  
  , tennis player
• William Roscoe Thayer
  William Roscoe Thayer
  William Roscoe Thayer was an American author and editor. He was best known for his works on Italian history.-Biography:Thayer was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 16, 1859. He studied at St. Mark's Academy, Concord, New Hampshire, traveled with a private tutor in Europe, and graduated from...
  
  
• Roscoe Turner
  Roscoe Turner
  Roscoe Turner was an aviator who was a three time winner of the Thompson Trophy.-Background:Turner was born in Corinth, Mississippi, the eldest son of a poor but respectable farmer. He came to realize that he did not want to be a farmer and found that he was attracted to mechanical devices instead...
  
  

Surnames

• Alan Roscoe
  Alan Roscoe
  Alan Roscoe was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 108 films between 1915 and 1933. His interment was located in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.-Selected filmography:...
  
   (1886–1933), American film actor
• Andy Roscoe
  Andy Roscoe
  Andy Roscoe is an English left sided defender or midfielder whose last job was as assistant manager at Leigh RMI having joined in 2003 from Exeter City. Roscoe has also played for Bolton, Mansfield, and Rotherham. He started his career at Liverpool. He has played for Liverpool in the Mersey...
  
  , English footballer
• Bill Roscoe
  Bill Roscoe
  A. William "Bill" Roscoe is a Scottish computer scientist. He is Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford and a Professor of Computing Science...
  
  , British professor of computing
• Francis James Roscoe
  Francis James Roscoe
  Francis James Roscoe was a Canadian entrepreneur and Member of Parliament.Francis Roscoe was born in Liverpool, England, the son of W.S. Roscoe, was educated at University College and the University of London and came to British Columbia in 1862, settling in the Ross Bay area of Victoria, British...
  
   (1831-1878), Canadian entrepreneur and politician
• Henry Enfield Roscoe
  Henry Enfield Roscoe
  Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, FRS was an English chemist. He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium and for photochemical studies.- Life and work :...
  
   (1833-1915), English chemist and university vice-chancellor
• Ingrid Roscoe
  Ingrid Roscoe
  Ingrid Mary Roscoe FSA is a writer on English art and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire.Dr Ingrid Roscoe was born at Rugby School in 1944 to Dr Arthur Allen and Else, who had married after only meeting three times...
  
   (born 1944), art historian and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire
• Martin Roscoe
  Martin Roscoe
  Martin Roscoe is an English classical pianist. He teaches piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the Department of Keyboard Studies. He performs as a concerto soloist, as a recitalist and as a chamber musician....
  
   (born 1952), English classical pianist
• Mary Roscoe
  Mary Roscoe
  Mary Roscoe is an actress, director, theatre producer. who was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. She emigrated to the UK to train at Rose Bruford College.Most recently she has appeared in the highly acclaimed film Unrelated by Joanna Hogg...
  
  , Zimbabwean actor
• Patrick Roscoe
  Patrick Roscoe
  Patrick Roscoe is a novelist, short story writer, and actor.He spent his childhood in East Africa, was educated in England and Canada, and later lived in California and Mexico...
  
   (born 1962), Canadian writer
• Theodore Roscoe
  Theodore Roscoe
  Theodore Roscoe was an American biographer and writer of adventure, fantasy novels and stories. Roscoe's stories appeared in pulp magazines including Argosy, Wings, Flying Stories, Far East Adventure Stories, Fight Stories, Action Stories and Adventure. A collection of his stories, The Wonderful...
  
   (1906 - 1992), American writer
• Will Roscoe
  Will Roscoe
  Will Roscoe is an American scholar, activist, and author based in San Francisco, California. He grew up in Missoula, Montana and helped found the Lambda Alliance at the University of Montana, that state's first LGBT organization in 1975, although he is heterosexual - Roscoe was inspired to...
  
   (born 1964), author living in San Francisco
• William Roscoe
  William Roscoe
  William Roscoe , was an English historian and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born in Liverpool, where his father, a market gardener, kept a public house called the Bowling Green at Mount Pleasant. Roscoe left school at the age of twelve, having learned all that his schoolmaster could teach...
  
   (1753-1831), English historian

Nicknames

• Ross Taylor
  Ross Taylor
  Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor , abbreviated in cricket scorecards to LRPL Taylor, but more commonly known as Ross Taylor, is a New Zealand cricketer and the current captain, preferred ahead of wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum. He has also captained the New Zealand Under-19 side in youth internationals...
  
   ("Roscoe" Taylor), New Zealand cricketer
• Roscoe (rapper)
  Roscoe (rapper)
  David Williams , better known by his stage name Roscoe, is a rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Los Angeles, California. His 2003 album, Young Roscoe Philaphornia, appeared on Billboard's Billboard 200 at #148....
  
   (David Williams), brother of Kurupt
• Ian Ross (news)
  Ian Ross (news)
  Ian Ross was a presenter for Seven News in Sydney. Commonly known as "Roscoe", Ross began his career in 1957 at Sydney radio station 2GB. He returned to Sydney as National Nine News reporter in 1965. Ross stayed at Nine for 38 years, where he is most known for his position as Today news presenter...
  
  , an Australian news presenter
• Rosco
  Sterling Roswell
  Sterling Roswell is a British musician, and best known as being a former member of Spacemen 3. Real name: Stewart Roswell.-Career:...
  
  , drummer in the British band Spacemen 3
  Spacemen 3
  Spacemen 3 were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce. Their music was "colorfully mind-altering, but not in the sense of the acid rock of the '60s; instead, the band developed its own minimalistic psychedelia"...
  
  

Fictional people

• Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
  Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
  On the American TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, Rosco Purvis Coltrane is the bumbling sheriff of Hazzard County and right-hand man of its corrupt county commissioner, Jefferson Davis "J.D." Hogg ....
  
  , 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
  Point Blanc
  Point Blanc is the second book in the Alex Rider series, written by British author Anthony Horowitz...
  
  
• Roscoe, mascot of the Milwaukee Admirals
  Milwaukee Admirals
  The Milwaukee Admirals are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They play in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA at the Bradley Center.-History:...
  
   minor league hockey team
• Roscoe, character from the channel 4 programme Shameless
  Shameless
  Shameless is a British television drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004...
  
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Music

• Roscoe, a song Midlake
  Midlake
  Midlake is an American rock band from Denton, Texas. The band first gained popularity in Europe, signing to Bella Union Records and playing at festivals such as Les Inrockuptibles, Wintercase, End Of The Road Festival and South by Southwest.-History:...
  
   and covered by Ellie Goulding
  Ellie Goulding
  Elena Jane "Ellie" Goulding is an English singer-songwriter. In 2010 she became only the second artist to both top the BBC's annual Sound of... poll, and win the Critics' Choice Award at the BRIT Awards in the same year, following Adele's win of both in 2008...
  
   on the iTunes bonus version of Bright Lights
  Lights (Ellie Goulding album)
  Lights is the debut studio album by English recording artist Ellie Goulding. It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 March 2010 by Polydor Records. Produced by Starsmith, Frankmusik, Fraser T. Smith and Richard Stannard, the album received mostly positive reviews from music critics...
  
  

• Roscoe, by Johnossi
  Johnossi
  Johnossi is a rock duo from Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm, Sweden, consisting of songwriter, singer, guitarist John Engelbert and drummer, percussionist, singer Oskar "Ossi" Bonde...
  
  

Other

• Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles
  Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles
  Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles is a Long Beach, California-based soul food restaurant chain founded by Herb Hudson, a Harlem native, in 1975...
  
  , a popular California restaurant chain
• ROSCO, an acronym for British railway rolling stock companies
• Roscoe (novel)
  Roscoe (novel)
  Roscoe is a novel by William Kennedy which was published in 2002, and depicts an aging politician who is a key behind-the-scenes player in Albany, New York's Democratic Party machine...
  
  , by William Kennedy
• Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway
  Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway
  The Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway is a very small railroad based in Roscoe, Texas, just west of Sweetwater, where it connects with the Union Pacific. When first constructed, the railroad ran from a connection with the Texas and Pacific Railway at Roscoe north through Snyder and then westward...
  
  
• Radio Free Roscoe
  Radio Free Roscoe
  Radio Free Roscoe was a Canadian television series filmed in Toronto, Ontario. The show was produced by Decode Entertainment, and it first aired on 1 August 2003 on Family, in Canada. It has also been dubbed in French in the province of Quebec and aired on VRAK.TV...
  
  , a teen drama from Canada
• Roscoe, the opening track on Texas band Midlake
  Midlake
  Midlake is an American rock band from Denton, Texas. The band first gained popularity in Europe, signing to Bella Union Records and playing at festivals such as Les Inrockuptibles, Wintercase, End Of The Road Festival and South by Southwest.-History:...
  
  's second studio album, The Trials of Van Occupanther
  The Trials of Van Occupanther
  The Trials of Van Occupanther is the second album by American rock band Midlake. It was released on July 25, 2006, on Bella Union Records. It is a suite of lush, heavily melodic songs laden with multi-part harmonies, given evocative lyrical imagery set in woodlands, boats and log cabins, telling...
  
  
• "Roscoe" type displacement lubricator, invented by James Roscoe