Rohan (name)
Rohan can be both a given name and a surname. Rohan first originated as a masculine given name in Indian languages. In Sanskrit, it means ascending. In Irish, Rohan is a variant of the given name Rowan.
The later European-version surname is derived from Rohan, a commune in northwestern France.
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Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Rohan Amerasekera, first indigenous Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force
- Rohan Bholalall Kanhai (born 1935) Guyanese former cricketer
- 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 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
Surname
- Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise (c. 1580–1642), Huguenot leader
- Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1715–1787), peer and marshal of France
- Denis Michael Rohan (1941–1995), Australian who attempted to burn down the al-Aqsa mosque in 1969
- Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc (1725–1797), Grand Master of the Order of Saint John
- Enda Rohan (born 1929), Irish chess master
- Gary Rohan (born 1991), Australian rules footballer
- Guy Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (1683–1760), also called Chevalier de Rohan, an opponent of Voltaire* Henri, Duke of Rohan (1579–1638), French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots
- Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan (1669–1749)
- Jiří Rohan (born 1964), Czechoslovak and Czech slalom canoer
- Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan (1734–1803), prince de Rohan-Guemenée, archbishop of Strasbourg
- Michael Scott Rohan (1951–2018), Scottish fantasy and science fiction author
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