Vache

Vache, sometimes written as Vatché or Vaché, may refer to:

Places

• Île à Vache, a small island lying off the south-west peninsula of Haiti.
• La Vache, a cave in located in the Northern Range, on the north coast of Trinidad.
• The Vache, an estate near Chalfont St. Giles in Buckinghamshire.
• Rivière aux Vaches, a tributary of the Saint-François River in Quebec, Canada

People

Historical / mononym

• Vache of Iberia, 3rd century king
• Vache I of Albania (3rd century), the second Arsacid ruler of Caucasian Albania
• Vache II of Albania (5th century), king of Caucasian Albania
• Vache I Amberdtsi (died c. 1232), Armenian prince (with the title Prince of Princes) and founder of the Vachutian dynasty
• Vache II Amberdtsi (13th century), Armenian prince of the Vachutian dynasty
• Vache III Amberdtsi (13th-14th century), Armenian prince of the Vachutian dynasty
• Vache of Kakheti (died 839), prince and chorepiscopus of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 827 to 839

Contemporary given name

• Vatche Arslanian (1955–2003), member of the Canadian Red Cross and head of logistics for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iraq
• Vatche Boulghourjian, Lebanese Armenian film director
• Vache Gabrielyan (born 1968), Armenian politician
• Vache Hovsepyan (1925-1978), Armenian musician and duduk player
• Vache Sharafyan (born 1966), Armenian composer
• Vache Tovmasyan (born 1986), Armenian actor, comedian, and showman

Surname

• Allan Vaché (born 1953), American jazz clarinetist, son of Warren Vaché Sr.
• Charles Vaché (1926-2009), bishop of The Episcopal Church in Virginia
• Jacques Vaché (1895–1919), friend of André Breton and a chief inspiration behind the Surrealist movement
• Tex Vache (1888–1953), American baseball player
• Warren Vaché Sr. (1914-2005), American jazz musician and journalist
• Warren Vaché Jr. (born 1951), American jazz musician, son of Warren Vaché Sr.

Others

• Vache (grape), another name for the French wine grape Mondeuse noire