Roland (disambiguation)
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Roland (died 778) was a Frankish military leader in Charlemagne's service, and subject of the epic poem The Song of Roland.
Roland may also refer to:
Places
- Rural Municipality of Roland, Manitoba Canada
- Roland, Manitoba, a village
- Roland, Arkansas, United States, a census-designated place
- Roland, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated community
- Roland, Iowa, United States, a city
- Roland, Oklahoma, United States, a town
- Roland, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
- Roland, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community
- Mount Roland (disambiguation)
- Lake Roland (disambiguation)
Music
- Roland (Lully), a 17th-century opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, and a libretto by Philippe Quinault
- Roland (Piccinni), an opera by Niccolò Piccinni
- "Roland", a song on the 2002 album Turn On the Bright Lights by the American band Interpol
- "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner", a 1978 song by Warren Zevon
Military
- Roland, the brand name of the Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft for a series of military aircraft flown during World War I
- MOWAG Roland, an armored personnel carrier
- Roland missile, a short-range air defence missile system, produced by French-German company Euromissile
- Roland Battalion, a German World War II unit in 1941
Businesses
- Roland Aircraft, a German aircraft manufacturer
- Roland Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, gear and sound cards
- Roland Foods Corporation, an American food product company
People
- Roland (name), a given name and family name
Fictional characters
- Roland Burton, in the TV series Army Wives
- Roland Deschain, in the Stephen King The Dark Tower novels
- Roland Jackson, in the 1997 animated TV show Extreme Ghostbusters
- Roland LeBay, in the Stephen King novel Christine
- Roland Rat, British children's TV puppet
- Roland, in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions
- Roland (game character), a video game character from the 1980s
- Roland, a playable character featured in the video game Borderlands
Other uses
- Roland (statue), a type of statue sometimes found in German towns, depicting Roland
- Bremen Roland, a statue of Roland in Bremen, Germany
- "Roland" (The X-Files), an episode of the television series The X-Files
- Safir (cycling team), a Belgian professional cycling team known as Roland between 1986 and 1988
- RC Roland, a Ukrainian rugby club in Ivano-Frankivsk
- Rohrbach Roland, a 1920s German airliner
- Roland (train), an express train that ran in Germany, and at times also in Switzerland and Italy
- Roland Institute of Technology, Berhampur, Odisha, India
See also
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