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Arts and entertainment

* ''Rockwell'' (album), a 2009 mini-album by Anni Rossi * Rockwell, a fictional town and setting of '' They Hunger'' * ''Rockwell'', a 1994 film about
Porter Rockwell Orrin Porter Rockwell (June 28, 1813 or June 25, 1815 – June 9, 1878) was a figure of the Wild West period of American history. A lawman in the Utah Territory, he was nicknamed ''Old Port'', ''The Destroying Angel of Mormondom'' and ''Modern-da ...
* Rockwell, Maine, a fictional town in ''
The Iron Giant ''The Iron Giant'' is a 1999 American animated science fiction film directed by Brad Bird and produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation. It is loosely based on the 1968 novel '' The Iron Man'' by Ted Hughes (which was published in the United ...
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Business

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Rockwell International Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate (company), conglomerate. It was involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avioni ...
, a former defense company in the United States **
Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation, Inc. is an American provider of industrial automation and digital transformation technologies headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its brands include Allen-Bradley, FactoryTalk software and LifecycleIQ Services. Rockwell ...
, an industrial automation company that descended from Rockwell International **
Rockwell Collins Rockwell Collins, Inc. was a multinational corporation headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, providing avionics and information technology systems and services to government agencies and aircraft manufacturers. It was formed when the Collins Radi ...
, a communications and aviation electronics company that also descended from Rockwell International ** Rockwell Semiconductor, a semiconductor company that also descended from Rockwell International, now known as
Conexant Conexant Systems, Inc. was an American-based software developer and fabless semiconductor company that developed technology for voice and audio processing, imaging and modems. The company began as a division of Rockwell International, before bei ...
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Rockwell Diamonds Rockwell Diamonds was a mid-tier diamond mining and development company. The company had an interest in producing and exploration alluvial diamond properties in southern Africa. The stock of the company once traded on the South African, Canadian, ...
, a mid-tier high-value gem diamond producer based in South Africa and headquartered in Canada *
Rockwell Tools Rockwell Tools is a line of power tools that is currently owned and distributed by Positec Tool Corporation, a China-based company with North American headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. The brand offers power tools and hand tools that a ...
, a line of power tools owned and distributed by China-based Positec Tool Corporation


People

* Rockwell (surname), a list of people with the surname * Rockwell (given name), a list of people with the given name * Rockwell (keyboardist), Jarred Rockwell, former keyboardist for the hard rock band Danava *
Rockwell (musician) Kennedy William Gordy (born March 15, 1964), known professionally as Rockwell, is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known for his hit single "Somebody's Watching Me", which features Michael Jackson on chorus vocals. Gordy is the son o ...
, 1980s R&B musician Kennedy William Gordy and a son of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy


Places


United States

* Rockwell, Alaska, original name of Juneau * Rockwell, Arkansas, a census-designated place *
Rockwell, Iowa Rockwell is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,071 at the time of the 2020 census. In 2020, it was speculated that the city is part of the Mason City Micropolitan Statistical Area. Geography According ...
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Rockwell City, Iowa Rockwell City is a city and the county seat of Calhoun County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,240 in 2020.
, a city * Rockwell, Kansas, a ghost town *
Rockwell, North Carolina Rockwell is a town in Rowan County, North Carolina, Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,302 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History The George Matthias Bernhardt House, Grace Evangelical and Reformed ...
, a town * Rockwell, Washington *
Rockwell Field Rockwell Field is a former United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) military airfield, located northwest of the city of Coronado, California, on the northern part of the Coronado Peninsula across the bay from San Diego, California. This airfield ...
, a defunct United States Air Force base, San Diego, California *
Rockwell Lake Rockwell Lake is a lake in Hubbard County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Rockwell Lake was named for Charles H. Rockwell, a pioneer who settled near its banks. See also *List of lakes in Minnesota This is a list of lakes of Minnesota. Altho ...
, a lake in Minnesota *
Rockwell Township, Norman County, Minnesota Rockwell Township is a township in Norman County, Minnesota, Norman County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 78 at the 2000 census. Rockwell Township was organized in 1882, and named after Rockwell, Iowa, the former home of a share of ...
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Mount Rockwell Mount Rockwell () is located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Mount Rockwell is situated along the Continental Divide A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage ba ...
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Rockwell Run Rockwell Run is a mountain stream in Morgan County, West Virginia. It is a tributary of the Potomac River. The Rockwell Formation is named after Rockwell Run, where exposures of the formation were first described by Stose and Swartz in 1912.Stos ...
, West Virginia, a tributary of the Potomac River


Elsewhere

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Rockwell Center Rockwell Center is a high-end Mixed-use development, mixed-use neighborhood in the Poblacion area of Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines, named after James Rockwell, former President of Meralco, Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company (Meral ...
, an upscale urban area in Makati, Philippines *
Rockwell Green Rockwell Green is a village near Wellington, in Somerset, England. It lies just east of the Somerset-Devon border and is overlooked by the Blackdown Hills. The Wellington Monument is visible from almost anywhere in the village. The monument is ...
, a village in West Somerset, England


Other uses

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Rockwell (typeface) Rockwell is a slab serif typeface designed by the Monotype Corporation and released in 1934. The project was supervised by Monotype's engineering manager Frank Hinman Pierpont. This typeface is distinguished by a serif at the apex of the upperc ...
, a typeface *
Rockwell College Rockwell College (), founded in 1864, is a voluntary day and boarding Catholic secondary school near Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. The school has a rugby tradition and has won the Munster Schools Senior Cup 26 times and the Munster ...
, a secondary school in South Tipperary, Ireland *
Rockwell Light The Rockwell Light is located on the northern harbor area of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. History The lighthouse was thought up by William Bray as a way to mark his harbor as well as the entrance to the Fox River. In 1909 B ...
, a lighthouse in Oshkosk, Wisconsin, United States * Rockwell (CTA), a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Brown Line * Rockwell, the original name for Intel's microarchitecture released in second half of 2014 (now called Broadwell)


See also

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Rockwell Formation The Rockwell Formation is a late Devonian and early Mississippian mapped bedrock unit in West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, in the United States. Description The Rockwell Formation was described at its type section at Rockwell Run in We ...
, a geological formation in West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania * Rockwell House (disambiguation) *
Rockwell scale The Rockwell hardness test is a hardness test based on indentation hardness of a material. The Rockwell test measures the depth of penetration of an indenter under a large load (major load) compared to the penetration made by a preload (minor loa ...
, a scale of material hardness {{Disambiguation, geo