Rocco
Rocco or Rocko is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
First name
- Saint Roch or Rocco (c. 1295-1327), Christian saint
- Rocco Baldelli (born 1981), American Major League Baseball player and coach for the Tampa Bay Rays
- Rocco Botte (born 1983), American actor and filmmaker
- Rocco Buttiglione (born 1948), Italian politician
- Rocco Chinnici (1925-1983), Italian magistrate killed by the Mafia
- Rocco Rocky Colavito (born 1933), American retired Major League Baseball player
- Rocco DeLuca (born 1975), guitarist with the band Rocco DeLuca and the Burden
- Rocco DiSpirito (born 1966), American celebrity chef and reality show actor
- Rocco Fischetti (1903-1964), American mobster
- Rocco Landesman (born 1947), Broadway producer
- Rocco Mediate (born 1962), American golfer
- Rocco Milde (born 1969), German former footballer
- Rocco Perri (1887-last seen 1944), Canadian bootlegger
- Rocco Petrone (1926-2006), Italian-American engineer and NASA executive
- Rocco Placentino (born 1982), Canadian soccer player
- Rocco Pozzi (1700-1780), Italian painter and engraver
- Rocco Quinn (born 1986), Scottish footballer
- Rocco Ritchie, son of pop star Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie
- Rocco Rossi (born 1962), Canadian politician
- Rocco Siffredi (born 1964), Italian pornographic film actor
- Rocco Silano (born 1962), American magician and actor
- Rocco Micky Hague (born 2014), Son of Micky Hague and Businessman Andy Bowen is his Godfather
Surname
- Alex Rocco (1936–2015), American actor
- Alfredo Rocco (1875-1935), Italian jurist and Fascist politician, author of the Italian Penal Code
- Danny Rocco (born 1960), American college football head coach
- David Rocco, Canadian actor and producer, host of David Rocco's Dolce Vita
- Keith Rocco(1840-19??), American military painter
- Marc Rocco (1962-2009), American film director, producer and screenwriter
- Mickey Rocco (1916-1997), American Major League Baseball first baseman
- Nereo Rocco (1912-1979), Italian football player and manager
- Pasquale Rocco (born 1970), Italian retired footballer
- Steve Rocco (born 1960), American skateboarder and retired businessman
- Steve Rocco (politician), American politician
Nickname, stage name or ring name
- Rocco Hunt (born 1994), Italian rapper
- Rocco Prestia (born 1951), bass player for the band Tower of Power
- Rocco Mandroid, member of the New Zealand punk band the Futurians
- Rocko Schamoni (born 1966), German entertainer, author and musician
- Rocco Rock (1953-2002), American professional wrestler
- Mark Rocco (born 1951), English retired professional wrestler
Fictional characters
- Johnny Rocco, fugitive gangster in the 1948 film Key Largo, played by Edward G. Robinson
- Rocco Lampone, in the novel The Godfather and the films The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
- Rocco Parondi, in the 1960 Italian film Rocco and His Brothers
- Rocko, from Rocko's Modern Life, a 1990s Nickelodeon animated show
- Rocko, from the cartoon series Undergrads
- Rocco the Beaver, a puppet on the Danish TV series Dolph & Wulff med Venner (Dolph & Wulff with Friends)
- Rocco the Dog, a puppet on the Canadian TV series Puppets Who Kill
- Rocco de' Medici, a master swordsman and long-lost heir to the late Duke of Florence in the TV series Leonardo.
See also
- David Della Rocco (born 1952), actor
- Sebastián Roco (born 1983), Chilean footballer
- Rocko, a cartoon character
- Rocko (rapper) (born 1979), American rapper and actor
- Rocco, a small lunar crater near Krieger (crater)
- Rocco code ('Codice Rocco'), Italian penal code (promulgated 1930, later amended)
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