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:
- 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
- Gerard Roland, Belgian economist
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 Gift, British singer and actor
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Other:
- Roland (air defence), a short-range air defence missile system, produced by French-German Euromissile.
- Roland Corporation, a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments
- RoLand (Rosetta Lander), alternative name for the Philae lander, the surface science package of the Rosetta spacecraft
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