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Roland Penrose
Sir Roland Penrose (1900–1984), English Surrealist painter, collagist, collector, and curator; co-organizer of the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition, co-founder of the ICA, Picasso's friend and biographer, husband of Lee Miller.
Roland Pozo
Roland Pozo is an American computer scientist at NIST who built C++ and Java libraries for numerical linear algebra and received a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award.
Roland R. Griffiths
Roland R. Griffiths (1946–2023) was an American psychopharmacologist at Johns Hopkins whose 2006 psilocybin study restarted modern psychedelic research; he founded its Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research in 2019.
Roland R. Netz
Roland R. Netz is a theoretical physicist who has been a full professor at the Free University Berlin since 2011, working on soft matter, charged polymers, and water at interfaces.
Roland Rad
Roland Rad is a physician-scientist, professor of Molecular Oncology and Functional Genomics at the Technical University of Munich, known for genetic screening studies of cancer evolution, metastasis, and drug resistance.
Roland Ratzenberger
Roland Ratzenberger (1960–1994), Austrian racing driver, Simtek F1 rookie. Killed in qualifying for the 1994 San Marino GP at Imola after front wing failure at over 300 km/h; his only start was 11th at Aida.
Roland Riek
Roland Riek is a Swiss professor of physical chemistry at ETH Zurich, known for NMR structures of the prion protein and amyloid fibrils and for arguing amyloids were the first functional protein fold.
Roland Schoeman
Roland Shoeman (Roland Mark Schoeman, born 1980), South African sprint swimmer; 2004 Olympic relay gold, 100m free silver, 50m free bronze; 50m butterfly world record 22.96 (Montreal 2005); first man under 21 seconds in short-course 50m freestyle.
Roland Schroder
Roland Schröder (born 1962, Köthen) is an East German rower, 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the men's coxless fours with Greiner, Brudel, and Förster; later World silver (1989) and bronze (1990) in the eights.
Roland Schüle
Roland Schüle is a German molecular biologist who was scientific director of urology at the University of Freiburg and showed the demethylase LSD1 activates androgen-receptor transcription.
Roland SH-101
The Roland SH-101 is a 32-key monophonic analog synthesizer introduced by Roland in 1982; it sold modestly before becoming central to house, techno, acid, and electro.
Roland Siegwart
Roland Siegwart, born 1959, is a Swiss robotics professor at ETH Zurich known for autonomous navigation, drones, and the textbook Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots.
Roland Space Echo
The Roland Space Echo, also known as Space Echo, is a family of tape-based delay effects units by Roland, best known for the RE-201 introduced in 1974.
Roland Stocker
Roland Stocker is a Swiss-trained Australian biochemist and vascular biologist who led research at the Heart Research Institute in Sydney, showing that bilirubin acts as an antioxidant and changing neonatal jaundice treatment.
Roland TB-303
The Roland TB-303 is a monophonic analog bass synthesizer with a 16-step sequencer, released by Roland in 1981; its squelchy sound later defined acid house.
Roland Thaxter
Roland Thaxter (1858–1932) was an American mycologist who spent his career at Harvard University and made the insect-parasitic fungi known as the Laboulbeniales his life's work.
Roland the Farter
Roland the Farter (Roland le Fartere, Roland le Petour) was a twelfth-century English court flatulist who held Hemingstone manor, Suffolk, by serjeanty from the Crown, owing an annual Christmas performance of one jump, one whistle, and one fart, attested in the Liber Feodorum.
Roland TR-808
Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, the 1980 fully analog drum machine (about 12,000 units, discontinued 1983) whose bridged-T kick and synthetic voices defined hip-hop, electro, and trap after secondhand prices collapsed.
Roland Trimen
Roland Trimen (1840–1916) was a British entomologist who led the South African Museum in Cape Town from the 1860s to 1895 and wrote the landmark 1869 paper on butterfly mimicry.
Roland W. Schmitt
Roland W. Schmitt (1923–2017) was an American physicist who headed General Electric's central research laboratory and served as the 16th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Roland W. Sutter
Roland W. Sutter is a Swiss-born physician and infectious-disease epidemiologist who led polio eradication work at the CDC in Atlanta and then at WHO in Geneva.
Roland Weitzenböck
Roland Weitzenböck (1885–1955) was an Austrian mathematician who held the chair in number and invariant theory at the University of Amsterdam from 1923 to 1945, known for the Weitzenböck inequality and connection.
Roland Wester
Roland Wester, born 1971, is an Austrian-based experimental physicist and professor at the University of Innsbruck known for imaging nucleophilic substitution and quantum tunnelling in ion–molecule reactions.
Roland Wetzig
Roland Wetzig (born 1959, Oschatz) is a German former bobsledder for East Germany, four-man Olympic gold medalist at Sarajevo 1984 with Wolfgang Hoppe and bronze medalist at Lake Placid 1980, plus world and European four-man medals.
Roland Wieser
Roland Wieser (born 1956, Zschopau) is an East German race walker, SC Dynamo Berlin, 1980 Olympic 20 km walk bronze medalist, 1978 European champion, and 1978 20 km world best of 1:23:11.5.
Roland Winter
Roland Winter is a German physical chemist, professor of biophysical chemistry at TU Dortmund University since 1993, known for high-pressure studies of proteins and membranes.
Rolanda Bell
Rolanda Chanel Bell (born 1987) is a Panamanian steeplechase runner, born in Queens, New York. Panamanian record holder at 3000m steeplechase (9:47.16) and 5000m; 2013 South American silver; 2015 Beijing Worlds water-jump fall.
Rolandas Mascinskas
Rolandas Maščinskas (born 1992, Prienai, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian rower, first Youth Olympic champion in boys' single sculls (2010), 2017 world champion in the men's quadruple sculls, and 2012 Olympian in the double sculls.
Rolando Aarons
Rolando Aarons, born 1995 in Kingston, Jamaica, is a Jamaican winger, ex-England U20, cousin of Max Aarons; Newcastle United academy player (2014 debut, 27 apps, 4 goals), later Huddersfield Town, Celje, and Morecambe.
Rolando Arrojo
Rolando Arrojo (Luis Rolando Arrojo Ávila), Cuban right-handed pitcher; 1992 Olympic gold medalist who defected in 1996, signed by the Devil Rays, was their first All-Star (1998, 14-12, 3.56), and pitched in MLB 1998-2002 (40-42, 4.55).