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Roland Corporation
Roland Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded in Osaka in 1972 by Ikutaro Kakehashi, known for synthesizers, the TR-808 drum machine, and co-developing MIDI.
Roland D-50
The Roland D-50 is a 16-voice digital synthesizer released by Roland in 1987, its first fully digital synthesizer, known for LA synthesis and hits like Orinoco Flow.
Roland Deschain
Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger, is the fictional protagonist of Stephen King's Dark Tower series (1982-2004), last gunslinger of Mid-World and descendant of Arthur Eld, questing for the Dark Tower; adapted in the 2017 film and a planned Flanagan TV series.
Roland Dobrushin
Roland L'vovich Dobrushin (Ролан Львович Добрушин) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, a doctoral student of Kolmogorov, known for the DLR equations, the Dobrushin uniqueness condition, and work on Markov chains.
Roland Douce
Roland Douce (1939–2018) was a French plant biochemist who established the chloroplast envelope as a subject of biochemical study and showed it is the site of galactolipid synthesis.
Roland E. Schmieder
Roland E. Schmieder, also known as Roland Schmieder, is a German physician-scientist and professor of hypertension at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen who led the SPYRAL HTN renal denervation trials.
Roland Emmerich
Roland Emmerich (born 1955, Stuttgart) is the German director of Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, and Moonfall; HFF Munich graduate, Centropolis founder, Oscar-winning disaster-spectacle pioneer now planning an AI film.
Roland Fraïssé
Roland Fraïssé (1920–2008) was a French mathematician in logic and the theory of relations, known for the Fraïssé limit, introduced in his 1953 thesis and 1954 paper.
Roland Freisler
Roland Freisler (1893-1945), Nazi jurist, State Secretary in the Reich Justice Ministry 1934-1942, Wannsee Conference participant, and President of the Volksgerichtshof from 1942, known for show trials, mass death sentences, and death in a 1945 Berlin air raid.
Roland Fryer
Roland G. Fryer, Jr. is an American economist at Harvard who won the 2015 John Bates Clark Medal and became the youngest African American there to receive tenure.
Roland Garros (aviator)
Roland Garros (1888–1918) was a French aviator from Réunion who made the first airplane crossing of the Mediterranean in 1913, later shooting down a German aircraft with a forward-firing gun.
Roland Gift
Roland Gift (born 1961, Birmingham) is a British singer and actor, lead vocalist of Fine Young Cannibals ('She Drives Me Crazy', 'Good Thing') and formerly of Hull ska band Akrylykz; also known for Scandal and Highlander roles.
Roland Gutierrez (Texas politician)
Roland Gutierrez is an American Democratic politician and attorney who has represented District 19 in the Texas Senate since 2021, after six terms in the Texas House of Representatives.
Roland Hardy
Roland Hardy (1926-2016), English race walker, double Olympian for Great Britain; world 5-mile best 35:24 in 1951, disqualified at Helsinki 1952, eighth in the 20 km walk at Melbourne 1956.
Roland J. Menassa
Roland J. Menassa is an American manufacturing engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 and the first VP of Manufacturing Technology at Skyline Champion.
Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé (born 1945, London) is a British director whose debut The Killing Fields (1984) and The Mission (1986) won three Oscars and the Cannes Palme d'Or; his later career included The Scarlet Letter and Vatel.
Roland Kanaar
Roland Kanaar is a Dutch molecular biologist at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam who heads the Molecular Genetics department and showed that homologous recombination repairs radiation-induced DNA breaks in mammalian cells.
Roland Kostulski
Roland Kostulski (born 1953, Borna) is a German rower who won gold in the coxed eight for East Germany at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and the 1975 World Championships; later a Leipzig sports administrator.
Roland L. Bragg
Roland Leon Bragg (1923–1999), Maine-born US Army paratrooper of the 513th PIR, 17th Airborne Division, won the Silver Star and Purple Heart in the Battle of the Bulge for driving a captured German ambulance 20 miles under fire; Fort Bragg was renamed for him in 2025.
Roland Lescure
Roland Lescure is a French politician serving as Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industrial, Energy, and Digital Sovereignty, after holding the industry and energy portfolio.
Roland Lill
Roland Lill (born 1955) is a German cell biologist at Philipps-Universität Marburg whose group discovered in 1999 that mitochondria's essential function is synthesizing iron–sulfur clusters.
Roland M. du Bois
Roland M. du Bois, often cited as Ron du Bois, is a British pulmonologist specializing in interstitial lung disease, especially idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and sarcoidosis.
Roland M. Schmid
Roland M. Schmid is a German internist and pancreatic cancer researcher, professor and director of the II. Medical Clinic at the Technical University of Munich since 2002.
Roland M. Tisch
Roland M. Tisch is an immunologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for research on immune tolerance and type 1 diabetes.
Roland Martin (journalist)
Roland Martin, also Roland Sebastian Martin, is an American journalist and commentator, former Chicago Defender executive editor, CNN contributor 2007-2013, TV One's NewsOne Now host, and founder of #RolandMartinUnfiltered and the Black Star Network.
Roland Martinꝉ
Roland Martin is a neuroimmunologist and physician-scientist known for his work on the immunology of multiple sclerosis, and professor emeritus at the University of Zurich.
Roland Matthes
Roland Matthes (1950–2019), East German backstroke swimmer, won the 100 and 200 m backstroke at both the 1968 and 1972 Olympics, took 8 Olympic medals, and was unbeaten 1967–1974.
Roland Møller
Roland Møller, full name Roland Greisen Møller, is a Danish actor born in 1972 who won Bodil Awards for Nordvest and Land of Mine after entering film as a consultant on the prison drama R.
Roland Omnès
Roland Omnès (1931–2022) was a French theoretical physicist who developed the consistent histories interpretation of quantum mechanics, arguing that classical physics can be derived from quantum theory.
Roland Orzabal
Roland Orzabal (born 1961) is an English songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist, co-founder and sole constant member of Tears for Fears with Curt Smith; principal writer of The Hurting, Songs from the Big Chair, and The Seeds of Love, and later producer of Oleta Adams.