Vache

Vache, sometimes written as Vatché or Vaché, may refer to:

Places

• Île à Vache, a small island lying off the south-west peninsula of Haiti.
• La Vache, a cave in located in the Northern Range, on the north coast of Trinidad.
• The Vache, an estate near Chalfont St. Giles in Buckinghamshire.
• Rivière aux Vaches, a tributary of the Saint-François River in Quebec, Canada

People

Royalty

• Vache of Iberia (died 231 or 234), king of Iberia
• Vache I of Albania (fl. c. 336–c. 360), second Arsacid ruler of Caucasian Albania
• Vache II of Albania (fl. c. 440–c. 462, king of Caucasian Albania
• Vache of Kakheti (died 839), prince and chorepiscopus of Kakheti in eastern Georgia
• Vache I Vachutian (died c. 1232), Armenian prince and founder of the Vachutian dynasty
• Vache II Amberdtsi, 13th century Armenian prince of the Vachutian dynasty
• Vache III Amberdtsi, 13th and/or 14th century Armenian prince of the Vachutian dynasty

Modern given name

• Vatche Arslanian (1955–2003), member of the Canadian Red Cross and head of logistics for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iraq
• Vatche Boulghourjian, Lebanese Armenian film director
• Vache Gabrielyan (born 1968), Armenian politician
• Vache Hovsepyan (1925–1978), Armenian musician and duduk player
• Vache Sharafyan (born 1966), Armenian composer
• Vache Tovmasyan (born 1986), Armenian actor, comedian, and showman

Surname

• Allan Vaché (born 1953), American jazz clarinetist, son of Warren Vaché Sr.
• Charles Vaché (1926–2009), American Episcopal Bishop of Virginia
• Jacques Vaché (1895–1919), friend of André Breton and a chief inspiration behind the Surrealist movement
• Tex Vache (1888–1953), American baseball player
• Warren Vaché Sr. (1914–2005), American jazz musician and journalist
• Warren Vaché Jr. (born 1951), American jazz musician, son of Warren Vaché Sr.

Other uses

• Vache (grape), another name for the French wine grape Mondeuse noire