Rohan
Rohan may refer to:
Places
- Rohan, Morbihan, a French commune in Brittany
- Château des Rohan (Mutzig), France
- Żebbuġ, Malta, also known as Città Rohan
- De Rohan Arch, a commemorative arch in Żebbuġ
- Palais Rohan, Bordeaux, France
- Palais Rohan, Strasbourg, France
- Rohan Castle in Saverne, France
- Fort Rohan, a fort in Malta
- Rohan, Ukraine, an urban-type settlement in Kharkiv Oblast
People
- The House of Rohan, a family of French nobility from Morbihan
- Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise (c. 1580–1642), Huguenot leader
- Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1715–1787), peer and marshal of France
- Guy Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (1683–1760), also called Chevalier de Rohan, an opponent of Voltaire
- Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc (1725–1797), Grand Master of the Order of Saint John
- Henri, Duke of Rohan (1579–1638), French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots
- Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan (1669–1749)
- Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan (1734–1803), prince de Rohan-Guemenée, archbishop of Strasbourg
- Denis Michael Rohan (1941–1995), Australian who attempted to burn down the al-Aqsa mosque in 1969
- Jiří Rohan (born 1964), Czechoslovak and Czech slalom canoer
- Michael Scott Rohan (born 1951), Scottish fantasy and science fiction author
Given name
Rohan is also a male name in the Sanskrit and Hindi languages. Notable men named Rohan include:
- Rohan Amerasekera, first indigenous Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force
- Rohan Bewick (born 1989), Australian rules footballer for the Brisbane Lions
- Rohan Bopanna (born 1980), professional Indian tennis player
- Rohan Davey (born 1978), Jamaican-born American football quarterback
- Rohan Dennis (born 1990), Australian racing cyclist
- Rohan Gavaskar (born 1976), Indian former cricketer
- Rohan Gunaratna (born 1961), terrorism expert
- Rohan Jayasekera (cricketer) (born 1957), former cricketer who represented Sri Lanka and Canada
- Rohan Jayasekera (writer) (born 1961), Associate Editor of Index on Censorship
- Rohan Kanhai, a West Indian cricketer
- Rohan Marley, businessman, Bob Marley's son
- Rohan Pethiyagoda (born 1955), Sri Lankan taxonomist
- Rohan Ricketts (born 1981), English footballer
- Rohan Sippy, Indian film director
- Rohan Smith (born 1973), Australian rules footballer
- Rohan Suppiah (born 1982), Malaysian cricketer
Companies
- Rohan (clothing), a clothing company
Manuscripts
On-line role playing games
- Rohan: Blood Feud, an online computer game by YNK Interactive
- The Riders of Rohan expansion to the MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online.
In fiction
- Rohan (Middle-earth), a realm in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
- Prince Rohan, the hero of Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince trilogy
- Rohan, a character in the television series The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog
- Rohan, a main hero in the science fiction novel The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem
- Rohan, a minor character in The Legend of Korra
- Rohan Kishibe, one of the main characters of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable.
See also
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