Roark may refer to:

  • Roark Capital Group, a US-based private equity firm
  • USS Roark (FF-1053), a United States Navy frigate
  • Roark, Missouri

People with the name

  • Roark Bradford (1896–1948), American short story writer and novelist
  • Roark Critchlow (born 1963), Canadian actor
  • Roark Gourley (born 1949), American painter, sculptor, and mixed media artist
  • Charles Thomas Irvine Roark, British polo player
  • Raymond Jefferson Roark (1890–1966), Professor of Mechanics (University of Wisconsin), known for writing Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, later co-authored with Warren C. Young (1923–2012)
  • William Marshall Roark (1938–1965), United States fighter pilot killed over North Vietnam
  • Tanner Roark (born 1986), American baseball pitcher

Fictional

  • Howard Roark, the protagonist of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead
  • Ted Roark, a character on Chuck
  • Roark (Pokémon), the Gym Leader of the Oreburgh Gym in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

See also

  • Roarke
  • Rourke
  • Rorke