Rock (disambiguation)
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[edit] Geology
- Rock (geology), a substance composed of mineral that can consist in particulate form or in large form (mountains, tectonic plates, planets)
- Rock salt or Halite, an unrefined form of sodium chloride
- Rock, slang for a gemstone, usually understood to be a diamond
[edit] Music
- Rock music, form of popular music
- Rock and roll, a genre of music that originated in the United States in the 1950s
- "Rock Music", a song by The Pixies from their 1990 album Bossanova
- Rock Music, a 2003 album by Australian band the Superjesus
[edit] People
- Allan Rock, Canadian Justice Minister, Health Minister and diplomat
- Andrew Rock, Olympic athlete
- Bob Rock, musician, sound engineer and record producer
- Chris Rock, American comedian
- David M. Rock, former mayor of Central Elgin, Ontario, Canada
- John Rock (American scientist), one of the inventors of the contraceptive pill
- Joseph Rock, Austrian-American explorer, geographer and botanist
- Kid Rock, American rapper and rock musician
- Raymond Rock, Canadian politician
- Rock Hudson, American actor
- Rock (rapper), half of the hip hop duo Heltah Skeltah
- Robert Rock, Loyalist gang leader from North Belfast
- Rock Whittington, guitarist
- The Rock (entertainer), Dwayne Johnson, actor and former professional wrestler
- Rahman "Rock" Harper, winner of Hell's Kitchen Season 3
- Tim Raines, American baseball player, nicknamed "Rock"
[edit] Places
- "The Rock", a nickname for Gibraltar
[edit] United Kingdom
- Rock, Cornwall, UK
- Rock, Worcestershire, UK
[edit] United States
- Rock, Kansas
- Rock Township, Benson County, North Dakota
- Rock County, Wisconsin
- Rock, Wisconsin:
- Rock Island, Illinois, USA
- Rock River (Illinois), which flows from southern Wisconsin into the Mississippi River
- "The Rock", a slang name for Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay and the former federal prison located on it
[edit] Food
- Rock (confectionery), made and sold in many of the UK's seaside holiday resorts
- Rock candy, a type of confectionery composed of large sugar crystals
- Rock (chicken), a breed of chicken
- "Rocks", slang for ice when used with alcoholic beverages
[edit] Computers
- Rocks Cluster Distribution, a Linux distribution for cluster computing
- ROCK Linux software for building customized Linux distributions
- Rock processor, a microprocessor currently in development by Sun Microsystems
[edit] Other
- Rock, slang for a basketball
- Rock (manga character), a character in Osamu Tezuka's manga
- Rock, the name of Mega Man in the Japanese versions of the games
- Rock Lee, a character from the anime and manga series Naruto
- The Rock (film), a 1996 motion picture about the Alcatraz prison
- Nathaniel "Rock" Adams, a character from the Soul Calibur series of games
- Rock, another name for Crack cocaine
- Rock, another name for Crystal methamphetamine
- Rock, an islet, usually a small island
- Rock Howard, a character from the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series of games
- ROCK1, a human gene
- Rock, the mascot of Rock Island High School Rock Island, Illinois
- "The Rock", short for Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
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