Roche

Roche is French for "boulder/rock", and may refer to:

Companies

• Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland, a Swiss pharmaceutical company
  • Roche Diagnostics, a division of Hoffmann–La Roche
  • Roche Applied Science, a business group of Roche Diagnostics

Places

Australia

• Rochedale, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane

France

• Roche, Isère, in the Isère department
• Roche, Loire, in the Loire department
• Roche-Charles-la-Mayrand, in the Puy-de-Dôme department
• Roche-d'Agoux, in the Puy-de-Dôme department
• Roche-en-Régnier, in the Haute-Loire department
• Roche-et-Raucourt, in the Haute-Saône department
• Roche-la-Molière, in the Loire department
• Roche-le-Peyroux, in the Corrèze department
• Roche-lès-Clerval, in the Doubs department
• Roche-lez-Beaupré, in the Doubs department
• Roche-Saint-Secret-Béconne in the Drôme department
• Roche-sur-Linotte-et-Sorans-les-Cordiers, in the Haute-Saône department
• La Roche-Bernard, in the Morbihan department
• La Roche-Blanche, Loire-Atlantique, in the Loire-Atlantique department
• La Roche-Blanche, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Puy-de-Dôme department
• La Roche-Canillac, in the Corrèze department
• La Roche-Chalais, in the Dordogne department
• La Roche-Clermault, in the Indre-et-Loire department
• La Roche-de-Glun, in the Drôme department
• La Roche-de-Rame, in the Hautes-Alpes department
• La Roche-Derrien, in the Côtes-d'Armor department
• La Roche-des-Arnauds, in the Hautes-Alpes department
• La Roche-en-Brenil, in the Côte-d'Or department
• La Roche-Guyon, in the Val-d'Oise department
• La Roche-l'Abeille, in the Haute-Vienne department
• La Roche-Mabile, in the Orne department
• La Roche-Maurice, in the Finistère department
• La Roche-Morey, in the Haute-Saône department
• La Roche-Noire, in the Puy-de-Dôme department
• La Roche-Posay, in the Vienne department
• La Roche-Rigault, in the Vienne department
• La Roche-sur-Foron, in the Haute-Savoie department
• La Roche-sur-Grane, in the Drôme department
• La Roche-sur-le-Buis, in the Drôme department
• La Roche-sur-Yon, in the Vendée department
• La Roche-Vanneau, in the Côte-d'Or department
• La Roche-Vineuse, in the Saône-et-Loire department
• Roches, Creuse, in the Creuse department
• Roches, Loir-et-Cher, in the Loir-et-Cher department
• Roches-Bettaincourt, in the Haute-Marne department
• Roches-lès-Blamont, in the Doubs department
• Roches-Prémarie-Andillé, in the Vienne department
• Roches-sur-Marne, in the Haute-Marne department
• Les Roches-de-Condrieu, in the Isère department
• Les Roches-l'Évêque, in the Loir-et-Cher department
• Clos de la Roche, grand cru vineyard in the Côte de Nuits

Ireland

• Rochestown, Cork
• Roche's Point, Co. Cork
• Castletownroche, Co. Cork

Switzerland

• Roche, Vaud, in the Aigle district, canton of Vaud
• Roche-d'Or, in the canton of Jura
• Roches, Switzerland, a village in the canton of Bern

United Kingdom

• Roche, Cornwall
• Roche Abbey, South Yorkshire, England

United States

• Roche de Bout, a rock formation in the Maumee River near the town of Waterville, Ohio, in Farnsworth Metropark
• Point Aux Roches Light, a lighthouse on Lake Champlain in New York

Further afield

• Roche (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Rocheworld, a planet circling Barnard's Star in the novel of the same name by Robert L. Forward

People

• Roche (surname)
• Saint Roch (also known as "Saint Roche" or "Saint Rocco"), patron saint of plague, pestilence and skin diseases
• Arthur Roche, Archbishop of the Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds and Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
• Roche baronets, baronetcy of Great Britain
• Roche Braziliano, Dutch buccaneer
• The Roches, Irish-American singer-songwriter group of siblings

Science and mathematics

• Roche limit (also known as the "Roche radius"), a concept in celestial mechanics
• Roche lobe, a concept in celestial mechanics
• Roche (spider), a spider genus in the family Ochyroceratidae
• Rouché's theorem

Other uses

• Rivière des Roches (disambiguation)
• Roche convention, a defense against a one notrump (1NT) opening in contract bridge
• St. Roch (ship), a Royal Canadian Mounted Police vessel
• Ruché, an Italian wine grape
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