Roland (disambiguation)

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 Harrah III (1973-1995), American actor
• 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, Indiana an unincorporated community
• Roland, Iowa, United States
• Roland, Manitoba, Canada
• Roland, Oklahoma, United States
• Roland, Texas
• Lake Roland (disambiguation)

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
• Roland Corporation, a manufacturer of musical equipment
• "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" is a 1978 song by Warren Zevon

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 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, and sound cards
• Roland Foods Corporation, an American food product company
• 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)