Rowland may refer to:
Places
;in the United States
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Rowland Heights, California
Rowland Heights is an unincorporated area in and below the Puente Hills in the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 48,231 at the 2020 census. Rowland Heights is in the Los Angeles metropoli ...
, an unincorporated community in
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States and in the U.S. state of California, with 9,861,224 residents estimated as of 2022. It is the ...
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Rowland, Kentucky Rowland is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Uppe ...
, an unincorporated community
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Rowland Township, Michigan
Ransom Township is a civil township of Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,012 at the 2020 census.
Communities
*Ransom is an unincorporated community within the township at .
Geography
According to the United S ...
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Rowland, Missouri
Rowland is an unincorporated community in Cedar County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by ar ...
, an unincorporated community
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Rowland Township, North Carolina
Rowland is a town in Rowland Township, Robeson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,037 at the 2010 census.
History
The congregation of the Ashpole Presbyterian Church was founded in the eventual bounds of the community i ...
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Rowland, North Carolina
Rowland is a town in Rowland Township, North Carolina, Rowland Township, Robeson County, North Carolina, Robeson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,037 at the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census.
History
The congregati ...
, a town
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Rowland, Nevada
Rowland is a ghost town in northern Elko County, Nevada, United States.
Description
The site of the former community is located along the Bruneau River in Bruneau Canyon in what is now the Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest.
History
Rowland was ...
, a ghost town
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Rowland, Oregon Rowland is a ghost town in Linn County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.
History
Rowland was formerly a station on the now-abandoned Southern Pacific Railroad
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class ...
, a ghost town
;Elsewhere
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Rowland, Derbyshire
Rowland is a village and a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales District, in the English county of Derbyshire. It is near the larger village of Great Longstone (where the population is included). Rowland lies within the chapelry of Baslow. Rowland ...
, England, a village and civil parish
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Rowland (crater)
Rowland is a large lunar impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Moon, on the far side from the Earth. This is an old, worn formation that is overlain by a number of smaller craters. The most notable of these is Rowland Y, which ...
, on the Moon
People
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Rowland (given name)
Rowland is an English male given name. It is a medieval variation of Roland.
Notable people with the given name "Rowland" include
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* Rowland Abiodun (born 1941), Nigerian-Canadian historian
* Rowland K. Adams (1889–1944), American judge
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, people so named
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Rowland (surname)
Rowland is an English surname.
Notable people with the surname "Rowland" include
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*Adele Rowland (1883–1971), American actress
* Albert Rowland (1885–1918), New Zealand race walker
* Alf Rowland (1920–1997), English footballer
* Alfred R ...
, people so named
Other
*The title character of
Childe Rowland
Childe Rowland is a fairy tale, the most popular version written by Joseph Jacobs in his ''English Fairy Tales'', published in 1890, based on an earlier version published in 1814 by Robert Jamieson. Jamieson's was repeating a "Scottish ballad", w ...
, a fairy tale by Joseph Jacobs, based on a Scottish ballad
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Rowland Institute for Science
The Rowland Institute for Science was founded by Edwin H. Land, founder of Polaroid Corporation, as a nonprofit, privately endowed basic research organization in 1980. The institute merged with Harvard University on July 1, 2002, and is now called ...
, now part of Harvard University
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Rowland Theater
The Rowland Theater (alternately spelled Theatre), located at 127 North Front Street, Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States, is an historic single screen movie theater, built in 1917 by Charles Hedding Rowland. The theater is own ...
, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
See also
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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 ...
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Rowlands
Rowlands is a surname, and may refer to:
* Clive Rowlands
* David Rowlands (disambiguation)
* Gena Rowlands
* Graham Rowlands
* Hugh Rowlands
* Jim Rowlands
* John Rowlands (disambiguation), several persons
* June Rowlands
* Keith Rowlands
* Ma ...
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Rowlan
Rowlan ( ) is an Ireland, Irish Surname and the anglicized version of the name Ó Rothlain . It, therefore, shares a link with the surnames Rowland (disambiguation), Rowland, Rowlands, Rollan, Rollin, Rolan, Roland (name), Roland and Rowley.
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