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

Canada Roche Lake, Kamloops, British Columbia

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
Roche baronets, baronetcy of Great Britain
Roche Braziliano, Dutch buccaneer

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

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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