Roundhead (disambiguation)

The word roundhead or roundheads may refer to any of several things.

In English history, "roundhead" can refer to:

• Roundhead, a supporter of the Parliamentarian and Puritan faction during the English Civil War
• more generally, any member of the Puritan movement in English history
• Roundhead (weapon), a type of mace used during the English Civil War

Names:

• Roundhead, a Wyandot chief who fought in the War of 1812
• "Roundhead" refers to the earliest complex of rock art paintings prevalent in the south east of the Tassili n'Ajjer plateau (Algeria)

Several organisms have the English common name "roundhead":

• Roundhead, also known as longfin, is a common name for fish of the family Plesiopidae
• Roundhead galaxias (Galaxias anomalus), a species of galaxiid fish
• Roundhead, a common name occasionally used for mushrooms of the genus Stropharia

Several place names in the United States carry the name "Roundhead":

• Roundhead Township, Hardin County, Ohio
• Roundhead, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Roundhead Township
• Roundhead, a peak near Fredericksburg, Texas
• Roundhead Butte, a peak in the Buffalo Plateau of southern Montana
• Roundhead Mountain, a peak near Stanley, Virginia

In coastal engineering, "roundhead" is:

• the offshore tip of a breakwater (structure)

In popular culture, "roundhead" can refer to:

• Roundheads and Pointheads, a play by Bertolt Brecht with music by Hanns Eisler
• The Roundheads (Doctor Who), a series of Doctor Who novels
• Roundhead, terminology commonly used in Melbourne, Australia to describe a Gunzel or Trainspotter
• Roundhead Studios, a New Zealand based music and sound recording studio owned by Neil Finn