John Roach may refer to any of the following:
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John Roach (shipbuilder)
John Roach (December 25, 1815 – January 10, 1887) was an American industrialist who rose from humble origins as an Irish immigrant laborer to found the largest and most productive shipbuilding empire in the postbellum United States, John ...
(1816–1887), United States shipbuilder
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John Roach (bishop)
John Robert Roach (July 31, 1921 – July 11, 2003) was an American cleric of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis from 1975 to 1995.
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(1921–2003), bishop of the Catholic Church
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John Roach (baseball)
John F. Roach (November 19, 1867 – April 2, 1934) was a 19th-century Major League Baseball player. In 1887 he pitched in a single game for the New York Giants. He also had an extensive minor league baseball career, that lasted from 1886 through ...
(1867–1934), former Major League Baseball pitcher
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John Roach (footballer, born 1862)
John Roach (1862–''unknown'') was a Welsh international footballer. He scored twice on his only appearance for the Wales national team, against Ireland on 11 April 1885 in the 1884–85 British Home Championship. Wales won the match 8–2.
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, Welsh international footballer
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John Roach (American football)
John Gipson Roach (March 26, 1933 – February 18, 2021) was an American professional American football, football player who was a quarterback and defensive back in the National Football League (NFL) for the History of the Chicago Cardinals, Chi ...
(1933–2021), football player
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John Roach (English footballer)
John E. Roach was an Irish association football, footballer. His regular position was at Defender (association football)#Full back, full back. He played for Manchester United F.C., Manchester United, FC Sète, and Accrington Stanley F.C., Accri ...
, English footballer played for Manchester United, FC Sète, and Accrington Stanley
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John C. Roach
John C. Roach is a former Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court. He was appointed by Governor Ernie Fletcher on June 10, 2005. His term ended on December 31, 2006. He lost an election to a new eight-year term in the November 2006 election to Jud ...
, justice on the Kentucky Supreme Court
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John Ross Roach
John Ross Roach (June 23, 1900 – July 9, 1973) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League between 1921 and 1935. His nicknames were "Little Napoleon", "The Housecleaner", and "The Port Perry Cucum ...
(1900–1973), Canadian ice hockey player
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John Vinson Roach II (1938–2022) pioneer of the personal computer
See also
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John Roche (disambiguation) John Roche may refer to:
* John A. Roche (1844–1904), Chicago politician
*John Roche (politician) (1848–1914), Irish politician
* John Roche (detective) (1905–1940), Garda Síochána Detective
*John Roche (actor) (1893–1952), American actor ...
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Roach (surname) Roach is an English and Irish surname of Norman origin, derived from the Old French ''roche'' (rock), and may refer to:
Politics and government
*George Roach ( fl. 1870s), Canadian politician
*John C. Roach, American jurist on the Kentucky Supreme ...
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