In Popular Culture
- Rolfe was portrayed by Robert Clarke in the 1953 low-budget film Captain John Smith and Pocahontas.
- He was portrayed by John Stephenson in TV Reader's Digest 1955 episode America's First Great Lady.
- Rolfe is portrayed by Christian Bale in the 2005 film The New World. In the Disney 1998 direct-to-video animated film Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, he was voiced by Billy Zane.
- In S.M. Stirling's novel Conquistador, a fictional descendant and namesake of Rolfe (descended from a (fictional) son of Thomas Rolfe, who in reality fathered only a daughter) founds a country called "New Virginia" after opening a door between dimensions to a world where Europeans never discovered North America.
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