List of Famous people named Roland

Roland Giraud is a French actor. He married actress Maaike Jansen in 1966.

Roland Dumas is a French lawyer and Socialist politician who served notably as Foreign Minister under President François Mitterrand from 1984 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993. He was also President of the Constitutional Council from 1995 to 1999.

Roland Matthes was a German swimmer and the most successful backstroke swimmer of all time. Between April 1967 and August 1974 he won all backstroke competitions he entered. He won four European championships and three world championships in a row, and swam 19 world and 21 European records in various backstroke, butterfly, freestyle and medley events. He was trained by Marlies Grohe.

Roland Ducke was a German football player. His younger brother Peter was also a successful footballer.

Roland Tichy is a German author, economist and journalist.

Roland Ernst Wolf Kaiser was a German film actor. Kaiser appeared in twenty-seven films and television series between 1954 and 1997. He also worked as a voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in Germany.

Roland Suso Richter is a German film director and producer.

Roland Baar was a German rower who competed for his nation at several Olympic Games. After retiring from the sport in 1996, he received the Thomas Keller Medal in 1998. He served on the Athletes' Commission of the International Olympic Committee between 1999 and 2004.

Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology, and post-structuralism. He was particularly known for developing and extending the field of semiotics through the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture.

Roland Petit was a French ballet company director, choreographer and dancer. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.