Geology

• Rock , naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids
• Halite or Rock salt, mineral form of sodium chloride

Places

• Rock, Cornwall, village in Cornwall, England
• Rock, Northumberland, village in Northumberland, England
• Rock, Worcestershire, village in Worcestershire, England
• Blackrock College, Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland
• Rock, Kansas, unincorporated community in Cowley County, Kansas, United States
• Rock Township, Benson County, North Dakota, civil township in United States
• Rock, West Virginia, a community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States
• Rock, Rock County, Wisconsin, town in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States
• Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin, town in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States
• Rock County, Wisconsin, county in United States
• Rock Island, Illinois, county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States
• Rock, County Tyrone - A small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• "The Rock" or Alcatraz Island, small island in San Francisco Bay, California, United States
• "The Rock" or Gibraltar, British overseas territory near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain)

Films

• The Rock , 1996 film starring Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage
• Rock On!! , Hindi film
• Camp Rock, 2008 made-for-TV movie on the Disney Channel

Music

• Rock music, form of popular music
• Rock , half of the hip-hop duo Heltah Skeltah
• Rocks , album by Aerosmith
• "The Rock" instrumental song by The Who from Quadrophenia
• "Rocks" , song by Primal Scream
• "Soft/Rock", single by Lemon Jelly featuring the tracks "Soft" and "Rock"
• Rock , an EP by VOTA (formerly known as Casting Pearls)

Food

• Rock candy, type of confectionery composed of large sugar crystals
• Rock , type of stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery
• Edinburgh rock, stick-shaped Scottish confection, notably different from ordinary rock
• Plymouth Rock , breed of chicken

Computers

• ROCK Linux, software for building customized Linux distributions
• Rock , microprocessor by Sun Microsystems
• Rocks Cluster Distribution, Linux distribution for cluster computing

Other uses

• Rock of Ages, phrase used in the Bible to describe God, found in the Psalms, and in the Gospel of Luke
• ROCK1, human gene
• Rock or islet, small island
• The Rocks, mascot of Rock Island High School, Rock Island, Illinois
• "The Rock" or Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, former Class I railroad in the United States
• Slang term for crack cocaine
• Slang term for testicles, especially in the sense of "to get one's rocks off"

People

• Allan Rock (born 1947), Canadian Justice Minister, Health Minister and diplomat
• Andrew Rock (born 1982), Olympic athlete
• Bob Rock (born 1954), musician, sound engineer and record producer
• Chris Rock (born 1965), American comedian
• David M. Rock, former mayor of Central Elgin, Ontario, Canada
• John Rock (1890-1984), one of the inventors of the contraceptive pill
• Joseph Rock (1884-1962), Austrian-American explorer, geographer and botanist
• Raymond Rock (born 1922), Canadian politician
• Robert Rock (born 1977), English professional golfer

• Rock or Roch, Roman Catholic saint
• Rock Hudson (1925-1985), American actor
• Rock Whittington, guitarist
• Rock F. Jones, 16th President of Ohio Wesleyan University

• Kid Rock (born 1971), American rapper and rock musician
• Rahman "Rock" Harper, winner of Hell's Kitchen
• Tim Raines (born 1959), American baseball player, nicknamed "Rock"
• Dwayne Johnson (born 1972), aka Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, actor and former professional wrestler

• Rock Lee, character in Naruto media
• Nathaniel "Rock" Adams, character in Soul Calibur media, see Rock
• Rock Howard, character in Fatal Fury and King of Fighters media
• Rock chano , character in Osamu Tezuka's manga series
• Rokuro "Rock" Okajima, character in Black Lagoon media

See also

• Rock and roll
• The Rock
• ROC
• Rockfish
• Rock River
• David Rock