Rocco Louis Gentilcore (born Welland, Ontario, Canada, June 9, 1924; died Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, October 28, 1993) was an author and a professor of historical geography at McMaster University, in Hamilton, in what is now the School of Earth, Environment & Society.
[1] His parents were emigrants from the town of Molinara in the Campania region of Italy.
He edited the second volume[2] of the Historical Atlas of Canada, a three-volume collaborative research and publishing project, undertaken by University of Toronto Press and finished in 1993, which used maps, text and other graphics to explore themes in the history of Canada.
[3] In 1989, the R. Louis Gentilcore Prize[4] was established on the occasion of his retirement from the Department of Geography, McMaster University.
[5] In 1994 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.