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