The Rock

The Rock commonly refers to:

• Dwayne Johnson, professional wrestler and actor also known as "The Rock"
• The Rock or Alcatraz Island, small island in San Francisco Bay, California, United States
• The Rock (film), 1996 film starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, directed by Michael Bay

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

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)