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  • Dick Rockwell
    Dick Rockwell
    Richard Waring Rockwell is an American comic strip and comic book artist best known as Milt Caniff's uncredited art assistant for 35 years on the adventure strip Steve Canyon...

    , an American comic strip and comic book artist, nephew of Norman Rockwell
  • Francis W. Rockwell
    Francis W. Rockwell
    Francis Williams Rockwell was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, his father was Julius Rockwell, also a member of Congress....

    , a United States Congressman from Massachusetts
  • George Lincoln Rockwell
    George Lincoln Rockwell
    George Lincoln Rockwell was a Navy Reserve Commander and founder of the American Nazi Party...

    , a 1960s American Neo-Nazi leader
  • Julius Rockwell
    Julius Rockwell
    Julius Rockwell was a United States politician from Massachusetts, and the father of Francis Williams Rockwell....

    , a United States politician from Massachusetts
  • Lew Rockwell
    Lew Rockwell
    Llewellyn Harrison Rockwell, Jr. , widely known as Lew Rockwell, is an American libertarian political commentator, activist, proponent of the Austrian School of economics, and chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute....

    , libertarian and founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • Norman Rockwell
    Norman Rockwell
    Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four...

    , a famous American painter
  • Porter Rockwell
    Porter Rockwell
    Orrin Porter Rockwell was a colorful figure of the Wild West period of American History and a law man in the Utah Territory...

    , a colorful figure of the Wild West period of American History
  • Rockwell Kent
    Rockwell Kent
    Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer.- Biography :Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York, the same year as fellow American artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper...

    , an American artist
  • Sam Rockwell
    Sam Rockwell
    Sam Rockwell is an American actor, appearing primarily in independent films.-Early life:Rockwell was born in Daly City, California, the son of actors who divorced when he was five years old. He was raised by his father, Pete Rockwell, in San Francisco while his mother, Penny Hess, stayed behind in...

    , an American actor
  • Thomas Rockwell
    Thomas Rockwell
    Thomas Rhodes Rockwell is the author of a number of books for young readers. He was the recipient of the Mark Twain Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Sequoyah Award for How to Eat Fried Worms, which was made into a TV movie in 1985 and was filmed as a theatrical release in 2006...

    , an American author and son of Norman Rockwell
  • Willard Rockwell
    Willard Rockwell
    Willard Frederick Rockwell, Sr. was a businessman who helped shape and name what eventually became the Rockwell International company....

    , a businessman who helped shape and name what became Rockwell International
  • Rockwell (musician)
    Rockwell (musician)
    Rockwell is a former R&B performer who was signed to the Motown label....

     (Kenneth William Gordy), a 1980s R&B musician
  • Rockwell (keyboardist), keyboardist for Danava

Companies

  • Rockwell International
    Rockwell International
    Rockwell International was one of America's premier companies in the latter half of the 20th century. It was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies under the sphere of influence of Colonel Willard F. Rockwell, who had made his fortune after the invention and successful launch of a new...

    , a former defense company in the United States, portions of which are now owned by ArvinMeritor, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
    • Rockwell Automation
      Rockwell Automation
      Rockwell Automation is a global provider of industrial automation, power, control and information solutions. Brands in industrial automation include Allen-Bradley and Rockwell Software....

      , an industrial automation company that descended from Rockwell International
    • Rockwell Collins
      Rockwell Collins
      Rockwell Collins, Inc. is a large United States-based international company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, primarily providing aviation and information technology systems, solutions, and services to governmental agencies and aircraft manufacturers....

      , a communications and aviation electronics company that also descended from Rockwell International
    • Rockwell Semiconductor, a semiconductor company that also descended from Rockwell International, now known as Conexant
      Conexant
      Conexant Systems Inc. is a publicly listed US semiconductor company, which was formerly the semiconductor division of Rockwell International.-History:...


United States

  • Rockwell, Arkansas
    Rockwell, Arkansas
    Rockwell is a census-designated place in Garland County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 3,024 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Rockwell is located at ....

  • Rockwell, Iowa
    Rockwell, Iowa
    Rockwell is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. The population was 989 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Mason City Micropolitan Statistical Area....

  • Rockwell City, Iowa
    Rockwell City, Iowa
    Rockwell City is a city in Calhoun County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,264 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Calhoun County.-Geography:Rockwell City is located at ....

  • Rockwell, Maine, fictional town in The Iron Giant
    The Iron Giant
    The Iron Giant is a 1999 animated science fiction film produced by Warner Bros. Animation, based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Brad Bird directed the film, which stars a voice cast of Eli Marienthal as Hogarth Hughes, as well as Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Vin Diesel,...

  • Rockwell Township, Norman County, Minnesota
  • Rockwell, North Carolina
    Rockwell, North Carolina
    Rockwell is a town in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,971 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Rockwell is located at ....

  • Rockwell Field
    Rockwell Field
    Rockwell Field, located on Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, California, was originally called the Signal Corps Aviation School. It was the first U.S. Army school to provide flying training for military pilots, and North Island was the school's first permanent location...

    , a defunct United States Air Force base, San Diego, California
  • The Norman Rockwell Museum
    Norman Rockwell Museum
    The Norman Rockwell Museum is home to the world's largest collection of original Rockwell art.Founded in 1969, the museum is located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life...

    , home to the world's largest collection of original Norman Rockwell art, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Other countries

  • Rockwell Center
    Rockwell Center
    The Rockwell Center is an upscale mixed-use 15.5-hectare project in Makati City, Philippines. It is a project of the Rockwell Land Corporation , which is owned by the influential Lopez family...

    , an upscale urban area in Makati City, Philippines
  • Rockwell College
    Rockwell College
    Rockwell College, founded in 1864, is a well known private Catholic secondary school near Cashel in South Tipperary, Ireland. It offers day as well as full boarding. Rockwell is run by the Holy Ghost Fathers.-Politics:...

    , a secondary school in South Tipperary, Ireland
  • Rockwell Green
    Rockwell Green
    Rockwell Green is a village near Wellington, in the Taunton Deane district of Somerset, England. It lies just east of the Somerset-Devon border and is overlooked by the Blackdown Hills.The Wellington Monument is visible from almost anywhere in the village...

    , a village in West Somerset, England

Other

  • Rockwell scale
    Rockwell scale
    The Rockwell scale is a hardness scale based on the indentation hardness of a material. The Rockwell test determines the hardness by measuring the depth of penetration of an indenter under a large load compared to the penetration made by a preload. There are different scales, which are denoted by a...

    , a scale of material hardness
  • Rockwell (typeface)
    Rockwell (typeface)
    Rockwell is a serif typeface belonging to the classification slab serif, or Egyptian, where the serifs are unbracketed and similar in weight to the horizontal strokes of the letters. The typeface was designed at the Monotype foundry's in-house design studio in 1934. The project was supervised by...

    , a typeface
  • Rockwell (CTA)
    Rockwell (CTA)
    Rockwell is an 'L' station on the CTA's Brown Line. It is a surface level station with a single island platform, located in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood at 4648 North Rockwell Avenue. The adjacent stations are Francisco, which is located across the Chicago River about to the west, and...

    , a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Brown Line