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Rocco Hunt
Rocco Hunt, stage name of Rocco Pagliarulo, is an Italian rapper and singer from Salerno who won the newcomers' section at Sanremo 2014 with the Neapolitan-dialect rap "Nu juorno buono".
Rocco Petrone
Rocco Petrone was an American mechanical engineer and NASA official who directed the Apollo 11 countdown, headed the Apollo program, and led the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Rocco Siffredi
Rocco Siffredi is an Italian adult film performer, director, and producer whose career includes arthouse films and television. Netflix’s Supersex dramatized his life in 2024.
Rocco Steele
Rocco Steele is an American gay adult film performer and director. He began his career in 2014 and won the XBIZ Gay Performer of the Year award in 2016.
Rocco Underwood
Rocco Underwood (Jonathan Rocco Underwood), long snapper for the Philadelphia Eagles, signed undrafted in 2026 from Florida; won the 2024 Patrick Mannelly Award as the nation's best FBS long snapper.
Rocco Vergallo
Rocco Vergallo is an Italian interventional cardiologist at the University of Genoa known for coronary imaging research and his 2020 NEJM review Atherosclerotic Plaque Healing.
Rocco Zikarsky
Rocco Zikarsky (born 2006) is an Australian 220 cm center, Brisbane Bullets Next Star, drafted 45th in 2025 by Chicago and traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves on a two-way contract.
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (born 1957, Ouagadougou), Burkinabé banker and politician, MPP founder, prime minister 1994-1996, National Assembly president 2002-2012, and President of Burkina Faso 2015-2022 until the January 2022 Damiba coup.
Roch Thériault
Roch Thériault (Moïse, 1947–2011) was a Canadian cult leader who founded the Ant Hill Kids in Quebec and Ontario, was convicted of assault and of the second-degree murder of Solange Boilard, and was killed by an inmate at Dorchester Penitentiary in 2011.
Rochdale
Rochdale, Greater Manchester: historic mill town recorded in Domesday 1086, granted a 1251 charter, birthplace of the 1844 Rochdale Pioneers co-operative movement, with a noted Gothic Revival town hall.
Rochdale A.F.C.
Rochdale A.F.C. is an English professional football club formed in 1907 and based in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, playing its entire history at Spotland Stadium in League Two.
Rochdale Canal
The Rochdale Canal is a 33-mile broad canal in northern England crossing the Pennines from Manchester to Sowerby Bridge; opened in 1804, it closed in 1937 and reopened in 2002.
Rochdale child sex abuse ring
Nine men were convicted in the Rochdale child sexual exploitation case in 2012. Later prosecutions and an independent review exposed wider abuse and repeated failures by police and public agencies.
Rochdale Principles
The Rochdale Principles, also called Principles of the Rochdale cooperative, are the rules of co-operative organization drawn from the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in England in 1844 and codified by the International Co-operative Alliance.
Roche
Roche (F. Hoffmann-La Roche), Swiss healthcare company founded 1896 in Basel by Fritz Hoffmann; pharmaceuticals and diagnostics leader, Genentech parent, 2025 sales CHF 61.5 billion.
Roche Holding (Swiss pharmaceutical company)
Roche Holding AG is the Basel-listed holding company of Roche, a Swiss pharmaceutical and diagnostics group founded in 1896 and known as the world's largest biotechnology company.
Roche limit
The Roche limit, also called the Roche radius, is the distance from a planet within which tidal forces tear apart a satellite held together only by gravity.
Roche lobe
The Roche lobe is the teardrop-shaped region of space around a star in a binary system, through which material overflows and transfers to its companion, named for Édouard Roche.
Rochel Gelman
Rochel Gelman, born 1942, is an American developmental psychologist at Rutgers University known for showing that preschool children know far more about number than earlier theories allowed.
Rochelle Aytes
Rochelle Aytes (born 1976) is an American actress and model from New York City, known for April Malloy on Mistresses, the voice of Rochelle in Left 4 Dead 2, Nichelle on S.W.A.T., and Dr. Mary Morstan on CBS's Watson.
Rochelle Hirschhorn
Rochelle Hirschhorn is an American medical geneticist at NYU Langone who led its medical genetics division for 24 years, explained ADA deficiency, cloned the Pompe disease gene, and shared the 2013 McKusick Leadership Award.
Rochelle Humes
Rochelle Humes (née Wiseman, born 1989) is an English singer and TV presenter from S Club 8 and The Saturdays, now hosting Ninja Warrior UK and The Hit List and founding My Little Coco.
Rochelle Neil
Rochelle Neil is an English actress trained at Italia Conti Academy, known for Leah Whittaker in Three Little Birds (ITV, 2023), Annie Carbey in The Nevers (HBO), Cassandra Lloyd in Das Boot, and Yvonne in Guilt.
Rochelle Nguyen
Rochelle Nguyen is an American Democratic politician representing the 3rd district in the Nevada Senate since 2022, after serving in the Nevada Assembly from 2019 to 2022.
Rochelle Rao
Rochelle Maria Rao (Rochelle Rao Sequeira), Indian model, anchor, and actress born 1988 in Chennai; Femina Miss India International 2012, ninth at Miss International 2012 in Okinawa; IPL season 6 host and Lottery on The Kapil Sharma Show; married Keith Sequeira in 2018.
Rochelle Stevens
Rochelle Stevens (born 1966, Memphis) is an American sprinter, 1996 Olympic gold and 1992 silver medalist in the 4x400 m relay; also 1995 world champion, NCAA 400 m champion, and Memphis youth track founder.
Rochelle Walensky
Rochelle Walensky, American infectious disease physician, 19th CDC Director (January 2021–June 2023) and ninth ATSDR administrator; Harvard Medical School professor and MGH infectious diseases chief known for HIV cost-effectiveness research.
Rochemaure milestone
Rochemaure milestone (borne milliaire de Rochemaure), a Gallo-Roman milestone of Antoninus Pius (c. 145 AD) from the voie des Helviens near Nîmes-Valence, marking 9,000 paces; original in Notre-Dame-des-Anges chapel, copy at the mairie, classified 1903.
Rochester Castle (United Kingdom)
Rochester Castle, Kent: Norman castle founded after 1066, rebuilt in stone by Bishop Gundulf in the 1080s, with a 38-metre keep begun after 1127 and famous for King John's 1215 siege.
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology, formerly the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute and often called Rochester Tech, is a private university in Rochester, New York, formed in 1891.