Rochester is a surname, originally a locational surname derived from the town of
Rochester in
Kent, England
Kent is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Greater London to the north-west. ...
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Notable people with the surname include:
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Ajay Rochester (born 1969), Australian actress and author
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Anna Rochester (1880–1966), American labor researcher and Communist political activist
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George Rochester
George Dixon Rochester, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (4 February 1908 – 26 December 2001) was a England, British physicist known for having co-discovered, with Sir Clifford Charles Butler, a subatomic particle called the kaon.
Biography
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(1908–2001), English physicist
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John Rochester (disambiguation), several persons
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Nathaniel Rochester
Nathaniel Rochester (February 21, 1752 – May 17, 1831) was an American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, most noted for founding the settlement which would become Rochester, New York.
Early life
Nathaniel Rochester was the ...
(1752–1831), American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, founder of Rochester, New York
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Nathaniel Rochester (computer scientist)
Nathaniel Rochester (January 14, 1919 – June 8, 2001) was the chief architect of the IBM 701, the first mass produced scientific computer, and of the prototype of its first commercial version, the IBM 702. He wrote the first assembler and ...
(1919–2001), designed the IBM 701, wrote the first assembler and participated in the founding of the field of artificial intelligence
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Paul Rochester (1938–2020), American football player
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Robert Rochester (c. 1494 – 1557), English Roman Catholic and employee of Queen Mary I
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Thomas H. Rochester (1797–1874), the 6th son of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and the 6th mayor of Rochester
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William B. Rochester (1789–1838), American lawyer and politician from New York
Fictional characters:
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Edward Rochester
Edward Fairfax Rochester (often referred to as Mr Rochester) is a character in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel ''Jane Eyre''. The brooding master of Thornfield Hall, Rochester is the employer and eventual husband of the novel's titular protagonist, ...
, character in the novel ''
Jane Eyre
''Jane Eyre'' ( ; originally published as ''Jane Eyre: An Autobiography'') is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The firs ...
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