Roche

Roche is French for "boulder/rock". The word is (part of) several names:

Business & companies

• Hoffmann–La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
• Roche Applied Science, a business area of Roche Diagnostics, a division of Hoffmann–La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

Places

in France

Roche or Roches is the name or part of the name of several communes in 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

in 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

in the United Kingdom

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

in Ireland

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

in the United States

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

in Australia

• Rochedale, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland

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

• The Roches, a female vocal group of sisters (Maggie and Terre and Suzzy Roche)
• Saint Roch (also known as "Saint Roche" or "Saint Rocco"), patron saint of plague, pestilence and skin diseases
• Charlotte Roche (born 1978), German television presenter, actress, singer and author
• Daniel Roche (actor) (born 1999)
• Danni Roche (born 1970), Australian field hockey player
• Des Roche, a 1930's NHL hockey player
• Dick Roche, an Irish politician
• Douglas Roche, O.C., peace activist and former Canadian Senator
• Édouard Roche, a French scientist
• Eric Roche, an Irish fingerstyle guitarist
• Frances Roche, wife of Sir Philip Miles, 2nd Baronet and daughter of Sir David Roche Roche Baronets
• Frank Roche, an American writer
• Gabriel Roche, former mayor of Courbevoie
• James G. Roche, 20th Secretary of the United States Air Force
• Jerry Roche Irish missionary murdered in Kenya
• Joe Roche, American columnist from Minnesota and Iraq War veteran
• Karl Roche (1862–1931), German syndicalist
• Raymond Roche, a French motorcyclist
• Regina Maria Roche, an English Gothic Novelist
• Stephen Roche, an Irish cyclist and winner of the Triple Crown of Cycling
• Nicolas Roche, an Irish cyclist
• Tony Roche (born 1945), Australian tennis player and coach
• Tony Roche, Rugby Football Union journalist and father of Daniel Roche (actor)
• Roche Braziliano, French buccaneer
• Roche Baronets, a Baronet of Great Britain
• William Roche (rugby player), Irish rugby union player

Science

• 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

Math

• Rouché's theorem

Other

• Ruché, an Italian wine grape
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police Vessel St. Roch