title: Roark
text: # 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
  