Rohan (name)
Rohan is both a given name and a surname. It has multiple origins, including Persian, Indian, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and Japanese.[citation needed] In Persian, Rohan means good character and piousness.[citation needed] In Sanskrit and Urdu, it means "ascending" or "ascent." It is also the name of Sri Vishnu.[citation needed] In Arabic, it means "spiritual."[citation needed] In Gaelic, Rohan is a variant of the name Rowan, which can mean red, red-haired, or rusty.[citation needed] In Japanese, it is an uncommon name, meaning "accompanying dew" and may be given either as a nom-de-plume or to a fictional character.[citation needed] The later European surname is derived from Rohan, a commune in the Brittany region of France.[citation needed]
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Rohan Amerasekera (1916–1974), first native Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force
- 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, 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 Kōda (born 1867 as Shigeyuki Kōda), Japanese writer
- 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
- Prince Rohan, the hero of Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince trilogy of fantasy novels
- Rohan, a character in the novel The Invincible
- Rohan, a character in the television series The Legend of Korra
- Rohan, a character in the television series The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog
- Rohan, a character in the video game Destiny 2
- Rohan Kishibe, a character in the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, and main character of its spin-off Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
- Rohan Kumakura, a minor character from AI: The Somnium Files
