Roscoe (first name)
Roscoe is a male name.
meaning
The name comes from Old Norwegian. It means "deer forest". Presumably the Vikings brought the name to East England, where it also exists as a place name. The name came to North America through the Pilgrim Fathers .
Name bearer
First name
- Roscoe Arbuckle (1887–1933; nickname Fatty ), American actor and director
- Roscoe Bartlett (born 1926), American politician
- Roscoe Lee Browne (1922-2007), American actor
- Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (1897–1982), American Vice Admiral in the US Navy and Director of the CIA (1947–1950)
- Roscoe Karns (1891-1970), American actor
- Roscoe C. McCulloch (1880–1958), American politician
- Roscoe Mitchell (* 1940), American jazz musician
- Roscoe Orman (born 1944), American actor and author
- Roscoe C. Patterson (1876–1954), American politician
- Roscoe Pound (1870–1964), American lawyer
- Roscoe Tanner (born 1951), American tennis player
Middle name
- Ernest R. Dickerson (* 1951), American director and cameraman
- Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965), American journalist
- Ralph R. Proctor (1894–1962), American civil engineer
- Walter R. Stubbs (1858–1929), American politician, Governor of Kansas