Roland

Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski (played by Jim True-Frost) is a former Baltimore Police detective and math teacher in the TV show "The Wire".

Roland "Rollie" Fingers is an American former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three teams between 1968 and 1985, when his effectiveness helped to redefine the value of relievers within baseball and to usher in the modern closer role. A seven-time All-Star, he led the major leagues in saves three times, and was named Rolaids Relief Man of the Year four times. He first gained prominence as a member of the Oakland Athletics championship teams of the early 1970s, when his flamboyant handlebar mustache made him perhaps the most identifiable member of The Mustache Gang which led Oakland to become the only non-New York Yankees team ever to win three consecutive World Series titles. Fingers was named the Most Valuable Player of the 1974 World Series after earning a win in the opener and saves in the last three games to secure the title.

Roland "Rollie" Boutin is a Canadian former ice hockey goaltender who played for the Washington Capitals. He was selected by the Capitals in the 1977 NHL Entry Draft.

Roland Burris is an American politician and attorney who is a former United States Senator from the state of Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party. In 1978, Burris was the first African American elected to statewide office in Illinois, when he was elected Illinois Comptroller. He served in that office until his election as Illinois Attorney General in 1990. Since then, he has unsuccessfully run for office four more times.

You guys should play Library of Ruina. Trust me on this one. Actually, maybe play Lobotomy Corporation first, because it has necessary story context. But there is a Roland in Library of Ruina and there are no Rolands in Lobotomy Corporation.

Roland Schitt from Schitt’s Creek.

Roland Kaiser is a German schlager singer-songwriter. He is one of the most successful German-speaking schlager-singers.

I associate this name with two things:

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1: Roland corporation, which makes synthesizers

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2: Roland from Borderlands, who is very cool and brave and lovable.

Roland Crane is the deuteragonist in Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom.

ARE YOU KIDDING GUYS?! NOBODY SAID THAT THIS NAME WAS GIVEN TO ROLAND ORZABAL FROM TEARS FOR FEARS! (Tears for Fears did Mad World, Everybody Wants To Rule The World, and Shout) I personally think that Roland Orzabal is one of the most underrated singers of all time because THAT MAN CAN SING!

Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner is an excellent song by Warren Zevon.

A famous bearer of this name is Roland Garros (1888-1918), a French aviator and a fighter pilot during WW1. His name was given to a tennis centre.

Roland Cubitt was a British aristocrat and the third to hold the title of Baron Ashcombe.

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician.

Rolland Baker is a world known world-changing evangelist in Mozambique, Africa. Look him up.

Roland Fréart de Chambray (1606-76) was a French exponent of Classicism.

A bearer of this name is Macauly Culkin character Roland from Saved!, a teen religious satire. In this movie, Roland is the sarcastic, cynical, atheistic, hilarious wheel-chair-bound brother of obnoxious, popular Jesus-freak Hilary Fay (Mandy Moore.)

There is also Childe Roland of "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," by Robert Browning.

There was a cool plump chap in Grange Hill in the 70s called Roland. Yaaaay! He also wore glasses.

One of my favorite stories is that of Childe Rowland and Burd Helen, in which a boy ventures to the realm of the dark Elf-King to save his kidnapped sister.

Roland Martin is a famous fisherman that has been in several commercials.

Sweetheart Roland is a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It tells of a man who fell in love with a girl who had a witch for a stepmother. The evil stepmother witch chased them until she was killed by thorns. When Roland and the girl went to get married a stranger woman made him forget the girl. Eventually they married and lived happily ever after.

Roland was one of the four main characters in "Extreme Ghostbusters" (1997), a sequel to the "Real Ghostbusters". In it, four teenagers (Roland, Garett, Eduardo and Kylee) bust ghosts, surprise surprise.

It's not really a famous bearer but: 'Roland' is a song I love by the band Interpol.

The main character in Stephen King's Dark Tower series is called Roland.

Roland is also the name of the king in Stephen King's Eye of the Dragon. The poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning inspired King to write the Dark Tower series.