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;in the United States *

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 metropol ...

, 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 ...

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 * Rowland Township, Michigan * Rowland, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Rowland Township, North Carolina **

Rowland, 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 ...

, a town * Rowland, Nevada, a ghost town *

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 East Side Line, beginning in the 1880s as an Oregonian Railway The Oregonian Railway was a ...

, a ghost town ;Elsewhere *

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 *

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

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 A * Rowland Abiodun (born 1941), Nigerian-Canadian historian * Rowland K. Adams (1889–1944), American judge * Ro ...

, people so named *

Rowland (surname) Rowland is an English surname. Notable people with the surname "Rowland" include A *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

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*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 *

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 *

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

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