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, 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 Interpol
  • "Roland", a song on the 2008 album Oh No, It's Love by the Bicycles
  • "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, electronic equipment, and software
  • Roland Foods Corporation, an American food product company

People

  • Roland (name), a given name and family name
  • Roland (entertainer), Japanese host, model, TV personality and entrepreneur
  • Roland Van Campenhout (born 1944), Flemish blues musician, known mononymously as Roland
  • Madame Roland (1754–1793), French revolutionary, salonnière and writer

Fictional characters

  • King Roland, a Spaceballs character
  • Roland, in the 2021 book Roland in Moonlight by David Bentley Hart
  • 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 Ironfist, a king from the Might and Magic series
  • Roland, a playable character featured in the video game Borderlands
  • Roland, the main character of Library of Ruina

Other uses

  • Roland (statue), a type of statue depicting Roland in some municipalities, including:
  • Bremen Roland
  • Roland (Haldensleben)
  • "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

  • Rolland (disambiguation)
  • Rowland (disambiguation)