Roland

Roland (died 778) was a Frankish seneschal in Charlemagne's service, subject of the epic poem The Song of Roland.

Roland may also refer to:

People with Family Name Roland:

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• Saint Roland (died c. 1200), French abbot
• Roland of Cremona (1178–1259), Italian Dominican friar and theologian
• Roland of Sicily (1296–1361), Sicilian nobleman and general
• Jean-Marie Roland, vicomte de la Platière (1734–1793), leader of the Girondist faction in the French Revolution
• Madame Roland (1754–1793), wife of Jean-Marie
• Pauline Roland (1805–1852), French feminist
• Ida Roland (1881–1951), Austrian actress
• Ruth Roland (1892–1937), American actress
• Gilbert Roland (1905–1994), American actor
• Edwin J. Roland (1905–1985), Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
• Joe Roland (born 1920), American jazz musician
• Gene Roland (1921–1981), American jazz composer and musician
• Hans Roland (born 1931), Australian author and teacher
• John Roland (born 1941), American news anchor and reporter
• Johnny Roland (born 1943), American football player
• Floyd Roland (born 1961), Canadian politician
• Ed Roland (born 1963), American musician
• Dean Roland (born 1972), American musician
• Layne Roland (born 1974), Canadian hockey player
• Pierre Roland (born 1979), Indonesian actor
• Dennis Roland (born 1983), American football player
• Gérard Roland, several people

People with Given Name Roland:

• Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician
• Roland Deschain, fictional anti-hero from Stephen King's Dark Tower
• Roland Emmerich, Film Director, Producer and Screenwriter
• Roland Gift, British singer and actor
• Roland Joffe, Film Director
• Roland Kirk, American jazz musician

Places:

• Roland, Manitoba, Canada
• Roland, Alabama, United States
• Roland, Iowa, United States
• Roland, Oklahoma, United States

In Media:

• Roland (Lully), a 17th century opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, and a libretto by Philippe Quinault
• Roland (The X-Files), an episode of the television series The X-Files
• Roland, a recurring character in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions of The Matrix series.
• Roland Rat, a British children's TV puppet
• Roland D. LeBay, a character in Stephen King's novel: Christine.
• Roland Dechain, a character in Stephen King's series of novels: The Dark Tower.

Other:

• Roland missile, a short-range air defence missile system, produced by French-German Euromissile.
• Roland Corporation, a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments and other devices
• RoLand (Rosetta Lander), alternative name for the Philae lander, the surface science package of the Rosetta spacecraft

See also

• Orlando (disambiguation) (Italian form of the name)

• Mount Roland disambiguation page
• Rowland

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