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"My wife always said I had a flair for the dramatic."
"Which one?"
"All of them."

Gender - Male
Family - Carolyn Rossi (ex-wife; deceased), Two other unnamed ex-wives, James David Rossi (son with Carolyn; deceased), Unnamed various brothers-in-law, Sal (uncle; deceased), Rosie (aunt; deceased)
Job - Former Marine, Unit Senior Agent, Writer
Rank - Former Marine Sergeant Major, Supervisory Special Agent
Specialty - Hostage Negotiation
Status -Alive
Portrayed By - Joe Mantegna, Robert Dunne (young)

Notes
He likes to hunt birds with his dog.
He is a former U.S. Marine and Vietnam War veteran, honorably discharged with the rank of Sgt. Major.
He carries a Springfield Professional Model, which implies that he has had past experience on the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team. In Identity, he mentions having been present at the Ruby Ridge standoff.
He has written at least five books during the time of Season Four and at least one more since. Known bibliography are:
- Deviance: The Secret Desires of Sadistic Serial Killers, apparently about the motivations of infamous serial killers. This book had a special tenth anniversary reprinting.
- Frenzy: America's Worst Spree Killers, about rampage killers from U.S. history.
- Eyes of a Predator, about an unknown criminal subject.
- Evil Never Rests, about prolific criminals such as The Butcher, The Piano Man, and Lady X.
He has interviewed Charles Manson three times and he interviewed Ted Bundy at least once.
Unlike the other BAU team members, Rossi believes in true evil.
Joe Mantegna chose the name of his character as tribute to Sgt. David Rossi, an LAPD officer who was one of the first officers to arrive on the scene of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, for which O.J. Simpson was later tried and acquitted. During the trial, Rossi was grilled by the defense on the stand for two days, even though his involvement in the case had only been that he answered the alarm call and been one of the first on the crime scene.
There has been some confusion regarding the fact that Rossi has a child or not:
- In an interview made around the time that he debuted on Criminal Minds, Mantegna states that his character has a son who can be seen in a photo on his desk[2]. The son seen in the picture is actually the son of the real-life David Rossi.
- However, Rossi claims not to have any children - present tense - in The Crossing, supposedly contradicting the above fact (though it could be possible he was just lying for some reason).
- Additionally, in Coda, it was hinted that he has a child, possibly with some form of handicap.
- Finally, in Epilogue, it is revealed that Rossi has a son named James that died after he was born, therefore possibly contradicting the first and third facts.
- However, it is possible that the other son was a child he had with another ex-wife of his or that James (deceased) died of a handicap and Rossi was saying only that he had no children currently, not wishing to speak about his loss.