# Rochester (surname)

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**Rochester** is a surname, originally a locational surname derived from the town of [Rochester](/source/Rochester,_Kent) in [Kent, England](/source/Kent).

Notable people with the surname include:

- [Ajay Rochester](/source/Ajay_Rochester) (born 1969), Australian actress and author
- [Anna Rochester](/source/Anna_Rochester) (1880–1966), American labor researcher and Communist political activist
- [George Rochester](/source/George_Rochester) (1908–2001), English physicist
- [John Rochester (disambiguation)](/source/John_Rochester_(disambiguation)), several persons
- [Nathaniel Rochester](/source/Nathaniel_Rochester) (1752–1831), American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, founder of Rochester, New York
- [Nathaniel Rochester (computer scientist)](/source/Nathaniel_Rochester_(computer_scientist)) (1919–2001), designed the IBM 701, wrote the first assembler and participated in the founding of the field of artificial intelligence
- [Paul Rochester](/source/Paul_Rochester) (1938–2020), American football player
- [Robert Rochester](/source/Robert_Rochester) (c. 1494 – 1557), English Roman Catholic and employee of Queen Mary I
- [Thomas H. Rochester](/source/Thomas_H._Rochester) (1797–1874), the 6th son of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and the 6th mayor of Rochester
- [William B. Rochester](/source/William_B._Rochester) (1789–1838), American lawyer and politician from New York

**Fictional characters:**

- [Edward Rochester](/source/Edward_Rochester), character in the novel *[Jane Eyre](/source/Jane_Eyre)*

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