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 DiSpirito (born 1966), American celebrity chef and reality show actor
- Rocco Fischetti (1903-1964), American mobster
- Sir Rocco Forte (born 1945), British businessman
- Rocco Landesman (born 1947), Broadway producer
- Rocco Marchegiano (1923-1969), better known as Rocky Marciano, American heavyweight boxer
- 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 Rossi (born 1962), Canadian politician
- Rocco Siffredi (born 1964), Italian pornographic film actor
- Rocco Silano (born 1962), American magician and actor
Surname
- Alex Rocco (1936–2015), American actor
- Alfredo Rocco (1875-1935), Italian jurist and Fascist politician, author of the Italian Penal Code
- Carmine Rocco (1912–1982), Vatican diplomat
- Danny Rocco (born 1960), American college football head coach
- David Rocco (born 1970), Canadian actor and producer, host of David Rocco's Dolce Vita
- John A. Rocco (1936-2020), American politician
- Keith Rocco, contemporary American military painter
- Lyla Rocco (1933–2015), Italian film actress
- 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), contemporary American politician
Nickname, stage name or ring name
- Rocko (rapper) (born 1979), American rapper and actor
- Dick "Rocko" Lewis (1908–1966), American entertainer
- 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 Fuentes Echaguei, a fictional character in the 2002–2003 Argentine teenage telenovella Rebelde Way
- Rocco Parondi, in the 1960 Italian film Rocco and His Brothers
- 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.
- Rocco Barbella, one of Sergeant Bilko′s corporals in The Phil Silvers Show
- Rocco Lampone, a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.
- Rocco, the puppy saved by Tom Hardy’s character in The Drop
- Rocko, from Rocko's Modern Life, a 1990s Nickelodeon animated series
- Rocko, from the cartoon series Undergrads
- Rocky Balboa, from the Rocky film series starring Sylvester Stallone as the films’ title character, who is sometimes called Rocco.
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