Roach or The Roach may refer to:

Animals

  • Cockroach, various insect species of the order Blattodea
  • Common roach (Rutilus rutilus), a fresh and brackish water fish of the family Cyprinidae
  • Rutilus or roaches, a genus of fishes
  • Members of several other leuciscid genera, including:
  • Leucos, from southern Europe
  • Sarmarutilus, from southern Europe
  • Hesperoleucus, from western North America

Places

  • Roach, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  • Roach, Nevada, a ghost town
  • Roach, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Roach River (Maine), a river in Piscataquis County
  • Roach River (Virginia), a tributary of the North Fork Rivanna River
  • River Roach, Essex, England
  • Roach, former name of the Rural Municipality of Leroy No. 339, Saskatchewan, Canada

People

  • Roach (surname), a list of people who bear the last name Roach
  • Roach (rapper) (born 1988), American rapper and hip-hop artist
  • Roach, fictional character in the animated series Supernoobs
  • Gary "Roach" Sanderson, a playable character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Roach Stewart (1881–1948), college football player and attorney
  • Roach, a fictional character from the 1991 crime-action film, Point Break
  • Law Roach

Other

  • A Zerg unit in StarCraft 2
  • Roach (headdress), traditional Native American headdress usually of porcupine hair
  • Roach (sail), an arc of extra material on the leech of a sail
  • Roach (smoking), the butt of a marijuana cigarette
  • Roaching, a way of styling the mane of a horse
  • Roach back, a type of conformation of the back of a horse
  • Roach Stone, a type of Portland stone with many shell fragments within the stone
  • Roach v Electoral Commissioner, a landmark 2007 High Court of Australia case
  • "The Roach (The Chronic Outro)", track on Dr Dre's 1992 album The Chronic
  • "The Roach" or "The Giant Cockroach", 1923 Russian children's poem by Korney Chukovsky
  • Papa Roach, American rock band

See also

  • Roaches (disambiguation)
  • Roache, the surname of several actors
  • Dace, several species of small fish
  • Shiner (fish), several species of small fish