The Rock
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The Rock or The Rocks may also refer to:
Buildings
- Prudential Center, Newark, nicknamed "The Rock" due to Prudential Financial's logo
- "The Rock", nickname for New York City's Rockefeller Center
- Memorial Stadium (Indiana), on the Indiana University campus
- The Rock (stadium), a football ground in Rhosymedre, Wales and home to Cefn Druids A.F.C.
- The Rock (building), a tower in Amsterdam
- The Rocks, Albany, a residence in Albany, Western Australia
- "The Rock," a nickname for the Knute Rockne Memorial athletic facility on the University of Notre Dame
- "The Rock," a nickname for Kidd Brewer Stadium at Appalachian State University
Literature
- The Rock (play), a play by T. S. Eliot
Music
- The Rocks (band), a former UK indie rock band
- The Rock (The Frankie Miller Band album), 1975
- The Rock (John Entwistle album), 1996
- The Rock (Tracy Lawrence album), 2009
- "The Rock", a song by Atomic Rooster from In Hearing of Atomic Rooster
- "The Rock", instrumental song by the Who from Quadrophenia
- The Rock (Rachmaninoff), an orchestral composition
People
- Dwayne Johnson, professional wrestler and actor also known as "The Rock"
- Don Muraco (born 1949), American professional wrestler nicknamed "The Rock" who primarily wrestled in the 1970s and 1980s
- Pedro Rizzo (born 1974), Brazilian martial artist nicknamed "The Rock"
Places
Australia
- The Rocks, Sydney, a locality
- The Rock, New South Wales, a town
Canada
- Newfoundland (island)
- The Rocks or Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick, a coastal formation in Canada
United States
- The Rock or Alcatraz Island, small island in San Francisco Bay, California, United States
- The Rock, Georgia, an unincorporated community
- The Rocks or McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, a borough
Elsewhere
- Bermuda, often referred to by islanders as The Rock.
- Gibraltar, often referred to as The Rock, from The Rock of Gibraltar
- Corregidor, an island in the Philippines
- Monaco-Ville, the old town of Monaco and one of its administrative divisions, known locally as Le Rocher (The Rock)
- Niue, an island in the South Pacific, near Tonga, commonly referred to as "The Rock (of Polynesia)"
- Ayers Kaserne, a closed U.S. Army Cold War military post in Kirch-Göns, Germany
Sports
- The Rock (rugby team) or Atlantic Rock, a rugby union team based in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
- The Rocks or Glasgow Rocks, a British basketball team
- "The Rock," nickname of the athletic teams of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Other uses
- The Rock (film), 1996 film starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, directed by Michael Bay
- The Rock or Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, former Class I railroad in the United States
- The Rocks, Inc., U.S. military officers' organization
- The Rock (play), T.S. Eliot's 1934 pageant play
- The Rock (radio station), a New Zealand rock music radio network
- The Rock (Northwestern University), a landmark at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
- The Rock (Michigan State University), a boulder on the campus of Michigan State University
See also
- All pages beginning with "The Rock"
- Rock (disambiguation)
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