Roland (disambiguation) explained

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, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated community
• 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

• 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)