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    Roland Emmerich

    Age 56 Male
    Scriptwriter, Producer, Writer
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    Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films, most of which are Hollywood productions filmed in English, have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide, more than those of any other European directors. His films have grossed just over $1 billion in the United States, making him the country's 14th-highest grossing director of all time.read more

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    Roland Burris

    Age 74 Male
    Lawyer, Politician
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    Roland Wallace Burris is a former United States Senator from the state of Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party. In 1978, Burris was the first African-American elected to statewide office in Illinois, when he was elected Illinois Comptroller. He served in that office until his election as Illinois Attorney General in 1990. Since then, he has unsuccessfully run for office four more times.read more

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    Roland Joffé

    Age 66 Male
    and French Film/television Director and Producer
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    Roland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series Bill Brand and factual dramas for Play for Today.read more

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    Roland Orzabal

    Age 50 Male
    Musician, Songwriter, Singer
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    Raoul Jaime Orzabal de la Quintana (born August 22, 1961) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is known mainly as a co-founding member of Tears for Fears, of which he is the main songwriter and joint vocalist, but he has also achieved success as a producer of other artists.read more

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    Roland Barthes

    1915 - 1980 Male
    Theorist, Philosopher, Semanticist

    Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, anthropology and post-structuralism.read more

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    Roland Benedikter

    Age 47 Male
    Sociologist, Political Scientist, Scientist

    Roland Benedikter is an Italian-Austrian Sociologist and Political Scientist with specialization in Contemporary Analysis and Multi- and Interdisciplinarity.

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    Roland Arnall

    1939 - 2008 Male
    Businessman, Diplomat, Owner

    Roland E. Arnall was a French-born American businessman and diplomat. As the owner of ACC Capital Holdings, he became a billionaire with Ameriquest Mortgage. He was co-founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and from 2006 until shortly before his death he was the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands.read more

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    Roland Michener

    1900 - 1991 Male
    Roland Michener#external Links

    Daniel Roland Michener PC CC CMM OOnt CD QC FRHSC(hon), commonly known as Roland Michener, was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 20th since Canadian Confederation. Michener was born and educated in Alberta, where, after serving briefly in the Royal Air Force, he acquired a university degree. He then attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, playing hockey there, and obtaining his two masters degrees.read more

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    Roland Dumas

    Age 89 Male
    Politician, Lawyer, Socialist

    Roland Dumas is a lawyer and French 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.read more

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    Roland Gaucher

    1919 - 2007 Male
    Politician

    Roland Gaucher was the pseudonym of Roland Goguillot, a French far-right journalist and politician. One of the main thinkers of the French far-right, he had participated in Marcel Déat's fascist party Rassemblement National Populaire (RNP) under the Vichy regime. Sentenced to five years of prison for Collaborationism after the war, he then engaged in a career of journalism, while continuing political activism.read more

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    Roland Passot

    Age 57 Male
    Chef

    French-born chef Roland Passot, owner of the La Folie and the more casual chain brasseries, Left Bank, was named one of "the eight wonders of Bay Area dining" by San Francisco Chronicle lead critic Michael Bauer.read more

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    Roland Perry

    Age 66 Male
    Writer, Biographer, Historian

    Roland Perry is a Melbourne-based author best known for his books on history, especially Australia in the two world wars. His Monash: The Outsider Who Won The War, won the Fellowship of Australian Writers' 'Melbourne University Publishing Award' in 2004. The judges described it as 'a model of the biographer's art. ' In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 2011, Perry was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia 'for services to literature as an author.read more

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    Roland Freisler

    1893 - 1945 Male
    Notorious Nazi Judge and President of the People's Court

    Roland Freisler was a prominent and notorious Nazi lawyer and judge. He was State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice and President of the People's Court (Volksgerichtshof), which was set up outside constitutional authority. This court handled political actions against Hitler's dictatorial regime by conducting a series of show trials.read more