Rohan (name)
Rohan is a name originating in Sanskrit. "Rohan" has multiple origins such as in Persian, Indian, Irish, Japanese, and Gaelic. Rohan can be both a given name and a surname. In Persian, it means good character and pious, In Sanskrit, it means "Ascending" as well as another name of Sri Vishnu. In Arabic, it means "spiritual". In Gaelic, Rohan has a variant of its name, Rowan. In Japanese, it means "accompanying dew". In Hindi and Urdu, it means "ascent".
The later European surname is derived from Rohan, a commune in Brittany.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Rohan Amerasekera (1916–1974), first native Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force
- Rohan Banerjee (born 1988), Indian cricketer
- Rohan Bewick (born 1989), Australian rules footballer for the Brisbane Lions
- Rohan Bopanna (born 1980), Indian tennis player
- Rohan Campbell (born 1997/1998), Canadian actor
- Rohan Davey (born 1978), Jamaican-born American football quarterback
- Rohan de Saram (born 1939), British-born Sri Lankan cellist
- Rohan Dennis (born 1990), Australian racing cyclist
- Rohan Gavaskar (born 1976), Indian former cricketer
- Rohan Gunaratna (born 1961), Sri Lankan terrorism expert
- Rohan Jayasekera (cricketer) (born 1957), cricketer who represented Sri Lanka and Canada
- Rohan Jayasekera (writer) (born 1961), British journalist and advocate for freedom of expression
- Rohan Kanhai (born 1935), Guyanese cricketer
- Rohan Marley (born 1972), Jamaican businessman, Bob Marley's son
- Rohan O'Grady (1922–2014), pen name of Canadian novelist June O'Grady (Skinner)
- 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 (born 1941), Australian who attempted to burn down the al-Aqsa mosque in 1969
- Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc (1725–1797), Spanish 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), French aristocrat
- Jiří Rohan (born 1964), Czechoslovak and Czech slalom canoer
- Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan (1734–1803), prince de Rohan-Guemenée, archbishop of Strasbourg
- Lukáš Rohan (born 1995), Czech slalom canoeist
- Michael Scott Rohan (1951–2018), Scottish fantasy and science fiction author
Fictional characters
- Rohan Kishibe, from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable
- Rohan Kumakura, a minor character from AI: The Somnium Files
- Rohan, from The Legend of Korra
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