Roque (given name)

Roque is a given name. It is the Spanish and Portuguese version of the Italian Rocco. Notable persons with that name include:

• Roque (footballer) (born 1973), Brazilian football player
• Roque Alfaro (born 1956), Argentine football player and manager
• Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez (1928–2009), Dominican Republic Roman Catholic bishop
• Roque Avallay (born 1945), Argentine football player
• Roque Balduque (died 1561), Spanish sculptor and maker of altarpieces
• Roque Cordero (1917–2008), Panamanian-American composer
• Roque Dalton (1935–1975), Salvadoran poet
• Roque de la Cruz (1580–1644), Irish Dominican prelate and Tridentine reformist
• Roque De La Fuente Guerra (born 1954), American businessman and 2016 presidential candidate
• Roque Esteban Scarpa (1914–1995), Chilean writer, literary critic and scholar
• Roque Estrada Reynoso (born 1883), Mexican lawyer, journalist and writer
• Roque Fernández (born 1947), Argentine economist and politician
• Roque Funes (1897–1981), Argentine cinematographer
• Roque González Garza (1885–1962), Mexican general and politician
• Roque Júnior (born 1976), Brazilian football player
• Roque Máspoli (1917–2004), Uruguayan football player and coach
• Roque Olsen (1925–1992), Argentine football player and manager
• Roque Pinto, Indian doctor
• Roque Ponce (late 17th century), Spanish painter
• Roque Ruaño (1877–1935), Spanish priest-civil engineer
• Roque Sáenz Peña (1851–1914), Argentine politician
• Roque Santa Cruz (born 1981), Paraguayan football player
• Dom Roque Tello de Menezes, Portuguese nobleman
• Roque Vallejos (1943–2006), Paraguayan poet, psychiatrist and essayist
• Roque "Rocky" Versace, (1937–1965), American soldier

See also

• Roque (disambiguation)