Roland (disambiguation)
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Roland
(died 778) was a Frankish seneschal in Charlemagne's service, and subject of the epic poem The Song of Roland
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Roland
Roland was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. Historically, Roland was military governor of the Breton March, with responsibility for defending the frontier of Francia against the Bretons...
(died 778) was a Frankish seneschal in Charlemagne's service, and subject of the epic poem The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland is the oldest surviving major work of French literature. It exists in various manuscript versions which testify to its enormous and enduring popularity in the 12th to 14th centuries...
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Roland may also refer to:
Surname
- Charles P. RolandCharles P. RolandCharles Pierce Roland is an American historian and professor emeritus of the University of Kentucky whose research specialty is in the fields of the American South and the Civil War.-Biographical sketch:...
(born 1918), American historian - Dean Roland (born 1972), American musician
- Dennis RolandDennis RolandDennis Roland, Jr. is an American football offensive tackle who plays for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. He was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at Georgia.Roland has also been a member of the Tampa Bay...
(born 1983), American football player - Ed RolandEd RolandEdgar Eugene Roland III was born August 3, 1963 in Stockbridge, Georgia. He is an American musician and vocalist of the alternative rock band Collective Soul. He is the primary songwriter and also contributes guitars, keyboards, producing, and engineering....
(born 1963), American musician - Edwin J. RolandEdwin J. RolandEdwin John Roland , served as the twelfth Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1962 to 1966.He was born in Buffalo, New York. Growing up in Buffalo, he attended Canisius High School and later Canisius College in the city. He graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in New...
(1905-1985), American Coast Guard commandant - Floyd RolandFloyd RolandFloyd K. Roland, MLA is a politician from Northwest Territories, Canada. He was the 11th Premier of the Northwest Territories, having held office from October 17, 2007 to October 26, 2011....
(born 1961), Canadian politician - Gene RolandGene RolandGene M. Roland was a jazz composer and musician who played many instruments during his career but was most significant as an arranger/composer and for his association with Stan Kenton...
(1921-1981), American jazz composer and musician - Gérard Roland (footballer)Gérard Roland (footballer)Gérard Georges Sylvain Roland is a French footballer who plays for Olympique de Marseille B as a left defender.-Football career:...
(born 1981), French football player - Gilbert RolandGilbert RolandGilbert Roland was a Mexican-born American film actor.He was born Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico and originally intended to become a bullfighter like his father. When the family moved to the United States, however, he became interested in acting when he was...
(1905-1994), American actor - Hans RolandHans RolandHans Roland is an Australian author and teacher.Born in Hamburg Germany in 1931 he grew up at the time of the rise of the Nazi Party. Whilst Roland joined the Hitler Youth his family joined an underground movement to assist Jews to leave Germany. Later his Hitler Youth group fought against the...
(born 1931), Australian author and teacher - Ida RolandIda RolandIda Roland , born Ida Klausner, was an Austrian and German actress.Her acting career began at the city theatre in Innsbruck. From 1924 to 1927 she took part in an ensemble at the Viennese Burgtheater...
(1881-1951), Austrian actress - Jean-Marie Roland (1734-1793), French politician, leader of the Girondist faction in the French Revolution
- Joe RolandJoe RolandJoe Roland is an American jazz vibraphonist.Roland began as a clarinetist, attending the Institute of Musical Art from 1937 to 1939. He started on xylophone in 1940 and began playing vibraphone in the middle of the decade, playing in jazz clubs in New York City...
(born 1920), American jazz musician - John RolandJohn RolandJohn Roland is an American former news presenter and reporter.Roland, a Southern California native who graduated from California State University, Long Beach in 1964, began his broadcasting career in the 1960s. His first major assignment was for NBC News in Los Angeles in 1966. From there, he was...
(born 1941), American journalist - Johnny RolandJohnny RolandJohnny Earl Roland is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the St...
(born 1943), American football player - Layne RolandLayne RolandLayne Roland , is a veteran hockey player from the WHL, ECHL, WPHL, and CHL who has played for such teams such as the Portland Winter Hawks, the Dayton Bombers, the Amarillo Rattlers and the Corpus Christi Rayz.-External links:...
(born 1974), Canadian hockey player - Madame RolandMadame RolandMarie-Jeanne Roland, better known simply as Madame Roland and born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon , was, together with her husband Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, a supporter of the French Revolution and influential member of the Girondist faction...
(1754-1793), wife of Jean-Marie - Pauline RolandPauline RolandPauline Roland was a French feminist and socialist.Upon her mother's insistence, Roland received a good education and was introduced to the ideas of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, the founder of French socialism, by one of her teachers. She became an enthusiastic supporter of his...
(1805-1852), French feminist - Pierre RolandPierre RolandPierre Roland who was born Pierre Roland Christy, in Jakarta, Indonesia on 14 April 1979, is an Indonesian actor. He is known as Pierre Roland and is famous for his role as a super hero in a hit tv series "Gerhana". He has also appeared on films and other TV series as well as music videos,...
(born 1979), Indonesian actor - Ruth RolandRuth RolandRuth Roland was an American stage and film actress and film producer.-Early life and career:Born in San Francisco, California, her father managed a theatre and she became a child actress who went on to work in vaudeville...
(1892-1937), American actress
Given name
- Roland BaileyChamp BaileyRoland "Champ" Bailey is an American football cornerback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. Bailey was drafted in the 1st round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Georgia.Bailey is 8th among Broncos in all-time...
, American football cornerback known as "Champ" - Roland BarthesRoland BarthesRoland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, anthropology and...
(1915-1980), French literary critic and theorist - Roland BurrisRoland BurrisRoland Wallace Burris is a former United States Senator from the state of Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party....
(born 1937), American politician - Roland DumasRoland DumasRoland Dumas is a lawyer and French Socialist politician who served notably as Foreign Minister under President François Mitterrand from 1984 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993...
(born 1922), French politician - Roland EmmerichRoland EmmerichRoland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer.His films, most of which are Hollywood productions filmed in English, have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide, more than those of any other European director...
(born 1955), German film director - Roland Garros (aviator) (1888-1918), French aviator
- Roland GiftRoland GiftRoland Lee Gift is a British singer and actor. He was the lead singer of the band Fine Young Cannibals.-Biography:...
(born 1961), British singer - Roland GrapowRoland GrapowRoland Grapow, born 30 August 1959 in Hamburg, Germany is a professional guitarist and music producer. Roland is best known for his time in the power metal band Helloween, who he played with for 12 years after replacing founding member Kai Hansen...
(born 1959), German heavy metal guitarist - Roland JoffeRoland JofféRoland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada...
(born 1945), British film director - Roland Kirk (1935-1977), American jazz musician
- Roland KochRoland KochRoland Koch is a German jurist and former conservative politician. He was Minister-President of Hesse from April 7, 1999, immediately becoming President of the Bundesrat, completing the term begun by his predecessor as Minister President, Hans Eichel, until his resignation on August 31, 2010...
(born 1958), German politician - Roland MichenerRoland MichenerDaniel Roland Michener , commonly known as Roland Michener, was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 20th since Canadian Confederation....
(1900-1991), Canadian politician, Governor General of Canada - Roland of CremonaRoland of CremonaRoland of Cremona was a Dominican theologian and an early scholastic philosopher. He was the first Dominican regentat Paris, France...
(1178-1259), Italian Dominican friar and theologian - Roland of SicilyRoland of SicilyRoland was the second-eldest illegitimate son of Frederick II of Sicily by his concubine Sibilla di Sormella. During his father's reign, he lived in the shadows, but he rose to influence in the courts of his half-brother Peter II and his nephews, Louis and Frederick IV, especially as the leader...
(1296-1361), Sicilian nobleman and general - Roland OrzabalRoland OrzabalRoland Jaime Orzabal de la Quintana is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is known mainly as a co-founding member of Tears for Fears, of which he is the main songwriter and joint vocalist, but he has also achieved success as a producer of other artists.- Early career :Orzabal...
(born 1961), English musician, songwriter and record producer - Roland PenroseRoland PenroseSir Roland Algernon Penrose CBE was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of modern art and an associate of the surrealists in the United Kingdom.- Biography :...
(1900-1984), British artist - Roland RatzenbergerRoland RatzenbergerRoland Ratzenberger was an Austrian racing driver who raced in Formula Nippon, Formula 3000 and Formula One...
(1960-1994), Austrian racing driver - Roland RotherhamRoland RotherhamRoland Rotherham is a British historian, specialised in medieval legends and lores, especially those related to King Arthur, Merlin and Glastonbury...
, British historian and lecturer - Roland ToporRoland ToporRoland Topor , was a French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work...
(1938-1997), French illustrator and writer - Saint RolandSaint RolandSaint Roland was the third abbot of a Cistercian monastery founded in 1140 in Chézery, France, in what is now the Diocese of Belley-Ars.According to local tradition, he was born in 1150 in England or Ireland. In 1186 he succeeded the Abbot Guillaume at Chézery. St. Roland died there around 1200....
(died 1200), French abbot
Places
- Roland, IowaRoland, IowaRoland is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,324 at the 2000 census. It is part of the 'Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area', which is a part of the larger 'Ames-Boone, Iowa Combined Statistical Area'.- Geography :...
, United States - Roland, ManitobaRoland, ManitobaRoland is a village of about 300 people in the Pembina Valley Region of Manitoba, Canada, located in the Rural Municipality of Roland, about 16 km north of Winkler. International children's musicians, LuLu and the TomCat, make their home in Roland. Roland is the birth place of the Canadian 4-H...
, Canada - Roland, OklahomaRoland, OklahomaRoland is a town in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,842 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Roland is located at ....
, United States
Fiction
- Roland (Lully)Roland (Lully)Roland is an opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault first performed at Versailles on January 8, 1685. The story is derived from Ariosto's epic poem Orlando Furioso...
, 17th century opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, and a libretto by Philippe Quinault - Roland (The X-Files)Roland (The X-Files)"Roland" is the twenty-third episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on May 6, 1994. It was written by Chris Ruppenthal and directed by David Nutter. The episode featured guest appearances by Željko...
, an episode of the television series The X-Files - Roland, fictional character in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions
- Roland RatRoland RatRoland Rat is a British television puppet character. He was created, operated and voiced by David Claridge, who had previously been behind the Mooncat puppet in the Children's ITV television programme Get Up and Go! David worked for Jim Henson, then the second series of The Young Ones...
, fictional British children's TV puppet - Roland LeBay, fictional character in the Stephen King novel Christine
- Roland DeschainRoland DeschainRoland Deschain of Gilead is a fictional character, the protagonist and antihero of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. He is the son of Steven and Gabrielle Deschain and is descended from a long line of "gunslingers", peacekeepers and diplomats of Roland's society...
, fictional character in the Stephen King The Dark Tower novels - Roland, a playable character featured in the video game BorderlandsBorderlands (video game)Borderlands is a science fiction based first-person shooter with RPG elements that was developed by Gearbox Software for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It was first revealed in the September 2007 issue of Game Informer magazine...
Aviation and Space
- Rohrbach RolandRohrbach Roland-External links:*http://www.eads.com/1024/en/eads/history/airhist/1920_1929/Rohrbach_Ro_VIII_Roland.html...
, a 1920's German airliner - Roland, the brand name of the Luft-Fahrzeug-GesellschaftLuft-Fahrzeug-GesellschaftLuft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft, also referred to as LFG, was a German aircraft manufacturer during World War I. They are best known for their various "Roland" designs, notably the Roland C.II and Roland D.VI, although they also produced a number of airships and experimental...
for a series of military aircraft flown during World War 1 - RoLand (Rosetta Lander), alternative name for the Philae landerPhilae landerPhilae is the lander that accompanies the Rosetta spacecraft. It is designed to land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shortly after arrival...
, the surface science package of the Rosetta spacecraft - Roland missile, a short-range air defence missile system, produced by French-German company Euromissile
Other uses
- Roland CorporationRoland Corporationis a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ¥33 million in capital. In 2005 Roland's headquarters relocated to Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture. Today it has factories in Japan,...
, a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, notably drum machines - Roland DG, Japanese manufacturer of Computer Numerical ControlledNumerical controlNumerical control refers to the automation of machine tools that are operated by abstractly programmed commands encoded on a storage medium, as opposed to controlled manually via handwheels or levers, or mechanically automated via cams alone...
Milling machines, based in Hamamatsu - "Roland", song on the 2002 album Turn On the Bright LightsTurn on the Bright LightsTurn On the Bright Lights is the debut studio album by American post-punk revival band Interpol, released in August 2002. The album was recorded in November 2001 at Tarquin Studios in Connecticut, and was co-produced, mixed and engineered by Peter Katis and Gareth Jones...
by the American band Interpol
See also
- Mount Roland (disambiguation)
- Orlando (disambiguation)
- RowlanRowlanRowlan is an Irish Surname and the anglicized version of the name Ó Rothlain . It, therefore, shares a link with the surnames Rowland, Rowlands, Rollan, Rollin, Rolan, Roland and Rowley.-Canterbury:...
- Rowland (disambiguation)