Weyland

Weyland or Weylandt may refer to:

In mythology

• Weyland or Wayland the Smith, a legendary smith in Germanic and Norse mythology.
  • Völundarkviða, the Lay of Weyland, a Norse epic poem about the smith.

People

• Thomas Weyland (1230 - 1298), British justice
• Jacob Weyland (fl. 1705), Dutch explorer of the New Guinea coast who discovered Geelvink Bay
• Richard Weyland (1780 - 1864), British politician
• Joseph Weyland (1826 - 1894), German bishop
• Paul Weyland (1888 - 1972), German anti-Semitic conman and agitator who organized an anti-Einstein campaign.
• Otto P. Weyland (1903 - 1979), American Air Force General
• Marcel Weyland (born 1927), Polish-Australian translator
• Jack Weyland (born 1940), American physicist and author
• Joseph Weyland (born 1943), Luxembourgian diplomat
• Wouter Weylandt (1984 - 2011), Belgian cyclist who died in the Giro d'Italia

Fiction

• In the Alien-Predator franchise
  • Charles Bishop Weyland, a fictional character from Alien vs. Predator (film)
  • Weyland-Yutani, a fictional evil megacorporation from the Aliens franchise
  • Weyland Corporation, a fictional technology corporation predecessor to Weyland-Yutani
• Weyland Smith from "The Fables" Vertigo Comics title
• John Wayland Smith, a fictional blacksmith from The Dark Is Rising Sequence fantasy series by Susan Cooper
• Weyland, a space station in the Honorverse, see List of locations in the Honorverse

Other

• The Weyland Mountains or Köbowrè Range in West Papua named after Jacob Weyland
• Weyland Ringtail Possum (Pseudochirulus caroli), a species of marsupial from Papua named after the mountains

See also

• Wayland (disambiguation)
• Weiland in wiktionary
• Weiland (disambiguation)
• Wieland (disambiguation)
• Wyland (disambiguation)