Roland (disambiguation)

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