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

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

Companies

* Roche Diagnostics, 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

Places

France

* Roche, Isère, in the Isère department * Roche, Loire, 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 D ...

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

Switzerland

* Roche, Vaud, in the Aigle district, canton of Vaud *

Roches, Switzerland Roches () is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (''Jura Bernois''). History Roches is first mentioned in 1308 as ''Roschers''. For ...

, a village in the canton of Bern

United Kingdom

Roche, Cornwall Roche (, "roach"; kw, Tregarrek, meaning ''homestead of the rock'') is a civil parish and village in mid-Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village gets its name from the high Roche Rock, a quartz-schorl outcrop east of the village. Roche is the No ...

* Roche Abbey, 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 t ...

, a crater on the Moon

People

Roche (surname) Roche is a surname of Norman origin. Notable people with this surname include: *The Roches, a female vocal group of sisters (Maggie and Terre and Suzzy Roche) *Roche baronets, baronetcy of Great Britain * Adair Roche, Baron Roche (1871–1956), Br ...

* Roche baronets, baronetcy of Great Britain *

Roche Braziliano Roche Braziliano (sometimes spelled ''Rock'', ''Roch'', ''Roc'', ''Roque'', ''Brazilliano'', ''Brasiliaan'' or ''Brasiliano'') (c. 1630 – disappeared c. 1671) was a Dutch pirate born in the town of Groningen. His pirate career lasted from 1654 ...

, Dutch buccaneer * The Roches, 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 forc ...

(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, wit ...

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

Other uses

Roch (disambiguation) Saint Roch was a Christian saint who lived c.1295–1327. Roch or St. Roch may also refer to: * ''St. Roch'' (ship), Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America *St. Roch, New Orleans, neighbor ...

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 * Riviè ...

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

Ruché Ruché (pronounced in English , ) 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 Contr ...

, an Italian wine grape * {{disambiguation, geo