| Tom Rolander | |
| Birth Place: | Kiomboi, Tanzania |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Software engineer, professor |
| Known For: | MP/M, iFolder |
Thomas Alan Rolander is an American entrepreneur, engineer, and developer of the multitasking multiuser operating system MP/M created for microcomputers in 1979 while working as one of the first employees of Digital Research with Gary Kildall, the "father" of CP/M. CP/M and MP/M laid the groundwork to later Digital Research operating system families such as Concurrent CP/M, Concurrent DOS and Multiuser DOS. He also developed CP/NET.
In 2013 he was granted with a 2013 Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence from the University of Washington (UW). In 2016 his Oral History was recorded for the Computer History Museum.