Roland (disambiguation)

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Roland was a Frankish seneschal in Charlemagne's service, killed in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778. He is known due to the epic poem La Chanson de Roland. Roland may also mean:

• Roland (air defence), a short-range air defence missile system, produced by French-German Euromissile.
• Roland Corporation, a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments.
• Roland Freisler, Nazi Socialist and President of the Volksgerichtshof (a court that deals with political crimes).
• The MAN Roland Inc. (Usa)/MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG (Germany) is the world's second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world's market leader in web offset printing.
• Philae lander, the surface science package of the Rosetta spacecraft, was formerly known as RoLand (Rosetta Lander)
• Roland Ratzenberger, former formula one driver. Killed at Imola in 1994.
• Roland, Iowa is a place in the State of Iowa in the United States of America.
• Roland of Gilead, a.k.a Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger, is the main character in Stephen King's Dark Tower series of novels.
• Roland (cycling team), a former road bicycle racing team.
• Roland (Greyhawk) is a town in the former Great Kingdom, in the fictional Dungeons and Dragons Greyhawk campaign world.
• Roland (song) is a song by the band Interpol on their album Turn on the Bright Lights.
• Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner is a song by Warren Zevon..
• Rolands were a series of WWI aircraft produced by LFG
• Roland Abeysekra, the Malaysian actor and educator.
• Roland (The X-Files episode), an episode of the television series The X-Files

See also

• Roland (name) of Germanic origin now used in many European languages (English, French, German, Dutch,...) equivalent of the name Orlando in Italian. From hroth=glory and nantha=audacity.