Rolled material for fracture split connecting rod excelling in fracture splittability, hot forged part for fracture split connecting rod excelling in fracture splittability, and fracture split connect

The present invention provides a rolled material having excellent fracture splitting characteristics and suitable for the manufacture of a connecting rod in which a through-hole section for assembly in a crankshaft is fracture split in substantially semicircles. Prescribed components are contained, an average aspect ratio of a sulfide-based inclusion as observed in a D/4 portion (D is the diameter of the rolled material) in a cross-section parallel to a longitudinal direction of the rod-shaped rolled material is not more than 10.0, a Pc indicated in Equation (1) below is between 0.41 and 0.75, and a Veq indicated in Equation (2) below is not less than 0.18 mass %. Pc=C(1-alpha/100) (1) {In Equation (1), C represents the carbon content in steel (mass %) and alpha represents the ferrite fraction (area ratio %)}; Veq=V+Ti/2+Si/20 (2) {In Equation (2), V, Ti and Si represent the content of each element in steel (mass %)}.