Roll

Roll or Rolls may refer to:

Places

• Roll, Arizona, US
• Roll, Indiana, US
• Roll, Oklahoma, US

Music

• Roll (Anne McCue album)
• Roll (Emerson Drive album)
• Music roll, a storage medium used to operate a mechanical instrument such as a player piano
• Legato or rolls, a guitar technique involving connected notes

Vehicles and maneuvers

• Roll (gymnastics), a movement resulting in a complete rotation of the body executed on the ground
• Roll program, an aerodynamic maneuver performed in a rocket launch
• Kayak roll, a maneuver used to right a capsized kayak
• Roll, a parameter of flight dynamics
• Roll, a type of aerobatic maneuver
• Roll, the movement of a watercraft from side to side caused by wave action, one of several ship motions
• Roll, the smooth wheel on a road roller or steamroller

People with the surname

Roll

• Alfred Philippe Roll (1846–1919), French painter
• Bob Roll (born 1960), American professional cyclist and commentator
• Eric Roll (1907–2005), academic economist, public servant and banker
• Ferdinand Nicolai Roll (1831–1921), Norwegian jurist and politician
• John Roll (1947–2011), United States federal judge
• Michael Roll (actor) (born 1961), German television actor
• Michael Roll (pianist) (born 1946), British pianist
• Michael Roll (basketball) (born 1987), American basketball player
• Richard Roll (born 1939), American economist
• Sigurd Roll (1893–1944), Norwegian diplomat and athlete
• Stephan Roll (1904-1974), Romanian poet
• William G. Roll (born 1926), American psychologist and parapsychologist
• Thomas Røll (born 1977), retired Danish professional footballer

Rolls

• John Etherington Welch Rolls (1807–1870), British jurist and art collector
• John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1837–1912), MP, agriculturalist and landowner
• John Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock (1870–1916), barrister and soldier
• Charles Rolls (1877–1910), co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited and pioneer aviator

Other uses

• Bread roll
• Roll (Mega Man)
• Rolls (restaurant chain), a fast food restaurant chain
• Scroll or roll, a rolled-up piece of parchment or paper
• Roll, a special type of hold arrow in the video game and engine StepMania
• Roll, a UK unit of weight for butter and cheese; See List of obsolete units of measurement

See also

• Banjo roll
• Coin wrapper or coin roll
• Drum roll
• List of rolled foods
• Role
• Roll call (disambiguation)
• Roll cloud
• Roll slitting
• Rolls Razor, a safety razor and washing machine manufacturer
• Rolle (disambiguation)
• Rolls-Royce (disambiguation)
• Rolling (disambiguation)