Roark

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