Roland (disambiguation)
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Roland (died 778) was a Frankish seneschal in Charlemagne's service, and subject of the epic poem The Song of Roland.
Roland may also refer to:
Statue
- Roland (statue), a type of statue sometimes found in German towns, depicting Roland
- Bremen Roland, a statue of Roland in Bremen, Germany
People
- Roland (name) is a common male name and family name
Surname
- Charles P. Roland (born 1918), American historian
- Dean Roland (born 1972), American musician
- Dennis Roland (born 1983), American football player
- Ed Roland (born 1963), American musician
- Edwin J. Roland (1905-1985), American Coast Guard commandant
- Floyd Roland (born 1961), Canadian politician
- Gene Roland (1921-1981), American jazz composer and musician
- Gérard Roland (footballer) (born 1981), French football player
- Gilbert Roland (1905-1994), American actor
- Hans Roland (born 1931), Australian author and teacher
- Ida Roland (1881-1951), Austrian actress
- Jean-Marie Roland (1734-1793), French politician, leader of the Girondist faction in the French Revolution
- Joe Roland (1920-2009), American jazz musician
- John Roland (born 1941), American journalist
- Johnny Roland (born 1943), American football player
- Layne Roland (born 1974), Canadian hockey player
- Madame Roland (1754-1793), wife of Jean-Marie
- Pauline Roland (1805-1852), French feminist
- Pierre Roland (born 1979), Indonesian actor
- Ruth Roland (1892-1937), American actress
Given name
- Roland Bailey, American football cornerback known as "Champ"
- Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French literary critic and theorist
- Roland Burris (born 1937), American politician
- Roland Cziurlock (born 1967), German bodybuilder
- Roland Dumas (born 1922), French politician
- Roland Emmerich (born 1955), German film director
- Roland of Galloway (d. 1200), Norse-Gaelic king of Galloway
- Roland Garros (aviator) (1888-1918), French aviator
- Roland Gift (born 1961), British singer
- Roland Grapow (born 1959), German heavy metal guitarist
- Roland Joffe (born 1945), British film director
- Roland Kirk (1935-1977), American jazz musician
- Roland Koch (born 1958), German politician
- Roland Michener (1900-1991), Canadian politician, Governor General of Canada
- Roland of Cremona (1178-1259), Italian Dominican friar and theologian
- Roland of Sicily (1296-1361), Sicilian nobleman and general
- Roland Orzabal (born 1961), English musician, songwriter and record producer
- Roland Penrose (1900-1984), British artist
- Roland Pope (1864–1952), Australian cricketer and ophthalmologist
- Roland Ratzenberger (1960-1994), Austrian racing driver
- Roland Rotherham, British historian and lecturer
- Roland Topor (1938-1997), French illustrator and writer
- Roland Evelyn Turnbull (1905-1960), British colonial administrator
- Roland Woolsey (b. 1953), U.S. professional football 1975–1978
- Saint Roland (died 1200), French abbot
Places
- Roland, Iowa, United States
- Roland, Manitoba, Canada
- Roland, Oklahoma, United States
Music
- Roland (Lully), 17th century opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, and a libretto by Philippe Quinault
- Roland (Piccinni), opera by Niccolò Piccinni
- "Roland", song on the 2002 album Turn On the Bright Lights by the American band Interpol
- Orlando (opera), opera by George Frideric Handel
Fiction
- Roland (The X-Files), an episode of the television series The X-Files
- Roland, fictional character in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions
- Roland Rat, fictional British children's TV puppet
- Roland LeBay, fictional character in the Stephen King novel Christine
- Roland Deschain, fictional character in the Stephen King The Dark Tower novels
- Roland (game character), a video game character from the 1980s
- Roland, a playable character featured in the video game Borderlands
- Roland Jackson, fictional character in the 1997 animated TV show Extreme Ghostbusters
Aviation and space
- Rohrbach Roland, a 1920s German airliner
- Roland, the brand name of the Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft for a series of military aircraft flown during World War 1
- RoLand (Rosetta Lander), alternative name for the Philae lander, the surface science package of the Rosetta spacecraft
- Roland missile, a short-range air defence missile system, produced by French-German company Euromissile
Other uses
- Roland Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of a wide range of electronic musical instruments and gear
- Roland DG (aka Amdek), Japanese manufacturer of Computer Numerical Controlled Milling machines, based in Hamamatsu
- Roland (train), an express train that ran in Germany, and at times also in Switzerland and Italy
See also
- Mount Roland (disambiguation)
- Orlando (disambiguation)
- Rowlan
- Rowland (disambiguation)