Rochester (surname)
Rochester is a surname, originally a locational surname derived from the town of Rochester in Kent, England.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Ajay Rochester, Australian actress and author
- Anna Rochester, American labor researcher and Communist political activist
- George Rochester, English physicist
- John Rochester (disambiguation), several persons
- Nathaniel Rochester, American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, founder of Rochester, New York
- Nathaniel Rochester (computer scientist), designed the IBM 701, wrote the first assembler and participated in the founding of the field of artificial intelligence
- Paul Rochester, American football player
- Robert Rochester, English Roman Catholic and employee of Queen Mary I
- Thomas H. Rochester, the 6th son of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and the 6th mayor of Rochester
- William B. Rochester, American lawyer and politician from New York
- Edward Rochester, character in the novel ''Jane Eyre''