Roe or hard roe, is the fully ripe egg masses of fish and certain marine invertebrates.

Roe or ROE may also refer to:

Places

Australia

  • Electoral district of Roe, Western Australia
  • Roe Botanical District or Mallee, a biogeographic region in southern Western Australia
  • Roe Plains, Western Australia, a coastal plain
  • Roe River (Western Australia)

United Kingdom

  • Roe Beck, Cumbria, England, also known as the River Roe in its lower reaches
  • River Roe, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

United States

  • Roe, Arkansas, a town
  • Roe River, Montana
  • Roes Spring, a stream in Georgia

People

  • Roe (surname)
  • Roe (given name)
  • R.O.E., an American singer and rapper from Chicago

Games

  • Ring of Elysium (RoE), a 2018 battle royale video game developed by Tencent Games
  • Rise of the Eldrazi (ROE), a Magic: The Gathering expansion
  • Rubies of Eventide (ROE), a defunct massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Military

  • Rules of engagement, the internal rules or directives among military forces
  • USS Roe (DD-24), a modified Paulding-class destroyer launched in 1909
  • USS Roe (DD-418), a Sims-class destroyer launched in 1939

Transport

  • Roe (ship), two slave ships
  • Roe Highway, a highway in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia
  • Rosedale railway station, Australia
  • Rotherhithe railway station, London, National Rail station code

Other uses

  • Roe deer
  • Roe v. Wade, a landmark 1973 United States Supreme Court decision on the issue of abortion
  • Norma McCorvey, plaintiff known pseudonymously as "Jane Roe"
  • Return on equity or ROE, the rate of return for ownership interest of common stock owners
  • Royal Observatory, Edinburgh or ROE, Scotland, UK
  • Charles H. Roe, a British coachbuilding company
  • "Roe", a season 5 episode of Boston Legal

See also

  • Pseudonyms for parties whose true identity is unknown or must be withheld in a legal matter:
  • Jane Roe (pseudonym)
  • Richard Roe (pseudonym)
  • Roes, a townland in Inver, County Donegal, Ireland
  • Row (disambiguation)
  • Rowe (disambiguation)