Roche F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, commonly known as Roche (), is a Switzerland, Swiss multinational corporation, multinational holding healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, ...

(F. Hoffmann–La Roche) is a Swiss healthcare company. Roche may also refer to:

Companies

Roche Diagnostics F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, commonly known as Roche (), is a Swiss multinational holding healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has shares listed on ...

, a division of F. Hoffmann–La Roche **

Roche Applied Science Roche Applied Science was a global business entity in the biotechnology sector that produces reagents and systems for life sciences research, with an emphasis on molecular genetics and cell biology research needs. Scope of business Roche Applied ...

, a business group of Roche Diagnostics *The Roche Group, an Australian property development company established by Imelda and Bill Roche in 2000

Places

France

Roche, Isère Roche () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Isère department The following is a list of the 512 communes in the French department of Isère. The communes cooperate in t ...

, in the Isère department *

Roche-en-Forez Roche-en-Forez (, before 2025: ''Roche'') is a commune in the Loire department in central France. Population See also *Communes of the Loire department The following is a list of the 320 communes of the Loire department of France. The ...

, in the Loire department *

Roches, Creuse Roches (; ) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France. Geography A farming area, comprising the village and several hamlets situated some northeast of Guéret, at the junction of the D9 and the ...

, in the Creuse department * Roches, Loir-et-Cher, in the Loir-et-Cher department

Switzerland

Roche, Vaud Roche is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle. History Roche is first mentioned in 1177 as ''Rochi''. Geography Roche has an area, , of . Of this area, or 50.9% is used for agricultural purp ...

, in the Aigle district, canton of Vaud * Roches, Switzerland, a village in the canton of Bern

United Kingdom

Roche, Cornwall Roche (, "roach"; , meaning ''homestead of the rock'') is a civil parish and village in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village gets its name from the high Roche Rock, a quartz-schorl outcrop east of the village. Roche is the Norman ...

Roche Abbey Roche Abbey is a now-ruined abbey in the civil parish of Maltby, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It is in the valley of Maltby Dyke, known locally as Maltby Beck, and is administered by English Heritage. It is a scheduled monument and Gra ...

, South Yorkshire, England

United States

* Roche de Bout, a rock formation in the Maumee River near the town of Waterville, Ohio, in Farnsworth Metropark

Further afield

Roche (crater) Roche is a large crater on the far side of the Moon from the Earth. The prominent crater Pauli lies across the southern rim of Roche, and the outer rampart of Pauli covers a portion of Roche's interior floor. To the north-northwest of Roche is ...

, a crater on the Moon

People

* Roche (surname) *

Roche baronets There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Roche, once in the baronetage of Ireland and once in the baronetage of the United Kingdom Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the U ...

, baronetcy of Great Britain *

Roche Braziliano Roche Braziliano ( – disappeared ) was a Dutch pirate from the city of Groningen. His piratical career lasted from 1654 until his disappearance . He was first made famous in Alexandre Exquemelin's 1678 book ''The Buccaneers of America''; Exquem ...

, Dutch buccaneer *

The Roches The Roches were an American vocal trio of sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche, from Park Ridge, New Jersey. Career In the late 1960s, eldest sister Maggie (October 26, 1951 – January 21, 2017) and middle sister Terre (pronounced "Terry" ...

, Irish-American singer-songwriter group of siblings

Science and mathematics

Roche limit In celestial mechanics, the Roche limit, also called Roche radius, is the distance from a celestial body within which a second celestial body, held together only by its own force of gravity, will disintegrate because the first body's tidal force ...

(also known as the "Roche radius"), a concept in celestial mechanics *

Roche lobe In astronomy, the Roche lobe is the region around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star. It is an approximately teardrop-shaped region bounded by a critical gravitational equipotential, ...

, a concept in celestial mechanics * ''Roche'' (spider), a spider genus in the family Ochyroceratidae *

Rouché's theorem Rouché's theorem, named after Eugène Rouché, states that for any two complex-valued functions and holomorphic inside some region K with closed contour \partial K, if on \partial K, then and have the same number of zeros inside K, where ...

Other uses

* Roch (disambiguation) *

Rivière des Roches (disambiguation) Rivière des Roches may refer to: Canada * Rivière des Roches (Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures), a tributary the Saint Lawrence river in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Quebec * Rivière des Roches (rivière du Berger), Québec City, Quebec * Rivière ...

* Roche convention, a defense against a one notrump (1NT) opening in contract bridge *

Ruché Ruché ( , ; ) is a red Italian wine grape variety from the Piedmont region. It is largely used in making Ruché di Castagnole Monferrato, a small production red varietal wine which was granted ''Denominazione di Origine Controllata'' (DOC) stat ...

, an Italian wine grape * {{disambiguation, geo