The Rock
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The Rock has several meanings:
People
- The Rock - the stage name of the American film actor and professional wrestler, Dwayne Johnson.
- Don Muraco - the retired American professional wrestler who went by the nickname, "The Rock".
Places
"The Rock" is a nickname for various places, including:- Alcatraz Island, California, former site of a maximum security prison
- Alum Rock, Birmingham. An inner-city area of the UK
- Gibraltar
- Newfoundland, Canada
- Niue
- Okinawa, Japan, as named by US Servicemembers
- Staten Island
- Uluru, Australia, known commonly as Ayers Rock
- Nickname for North Carolina Speedway
- The Rock is also a town and railway junction in New South Wales, Australia
- The Rock (venue) a concert venue in Papillion, Nebraska
Entertainment
- The Rock is a 1996 film set on Alcatraz
- The Rock is a composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff
- "The Rock" is an instrumental piece from Quadrophenia by The Who
- The Rock is a radio station in Alabama, United States
- The Rock is a radio station in New Zealand
Other
- "The Rock" is a nickname for Rockland Community College, a SUNY College in Suffern, New York
- "The Rock" is a nickname for Rolling Rock, a brand of beer
- "The Rock" is a nickname for The University of Southern Mississippi's football venue, M. M. Roberts Stadium.
- The Rock was a name used by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (otherwise known as the Rock Island Line) between 1975 and 1980
- "The rock" is a nickname for a basketball (as in "pass me the rock")
- The Rock is a commonly spray painted boulder on the campus of several universities:
- * Michigan State University
- * University of Calgary
- * University of Michigan
- * The University of Southern Mississippi (The Little Rock)
- * University of Tennessee
- * Northwestern University.
- "The Rock" is a nickname for North Carolina Speedway, a defunct NASCAR track in Rockingham, North Carolina.
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