Roark
# 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
* James Roark (1946?–1995), pseudonym of photographer James Barnas
* 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
* Roark family, a fictional dynasty in Frank Miller's graphic novel series Sin City
   * Roark Junior, the primary villain of That Yellow Bastard
* Ted Roark, a character on Chuck
* Roark (Pokémon), the Gym Leader of the Oreburgh Gym in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
