Orlando (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Places 2 People 2.1 Given name 2.2 Surname 3 Culture 3.1 Literature 3.2 Film and television 3.3 Music 3.4 Other

Orlando may refer to:

• The Italian form of the name Roland, which is used in several works
  • See also Culture below
  • See also Roland (disambiguation) (although few of these will be called Orlando in English)

[edit] Places

• Orlando, Florida, a major city in Florida
  • Greater Orlando, the 27th-largest metropolitan area in the United States
  • Orlando International Airport, the busiest airport in the State of Florida
  • Orlando Predators, Arena Football League team
  • Orlando Magic, NBA basketball team
• Orlando, Kentucky
• Orlando, Oklahoma
• Orlando, Soweto, a subdivision of Johannesburg, South Africa

[edit] People

[edit] Given name

• Orlando di Lasso (1530 or 1532-1594), Franco-Flemish composer
• Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), English composer
• Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958), American nobel prize winner in physics
• Orlando Letelier (1932–1976), Chilean diplomat
• Orlando Pizzolato (born 1958), Italian long-distance runner
• Nick Pelling (born 1964), British computer programmer who wrote programs under the nom-de-plume "Orlando M. Pilchard"
• Orlando Jones (born 1968), American comedian and actor
• Orlando Serrell (born 1968), American Savant
• Orlando Duque (born 1974), Colombian extreme athlet
• Orlando Engelaar (born 1974), Dutch football player
• Orlando Hudson (born 1977), American baseball player
• Orlando Bloom (born 1977), British actor
• Orlando Jordan (born 1980), American professional wrestler
• Orlando Brown (born 1987), American actor

Orlando Peçanha de Carvalho, Brasilian football player

[edit] Surname

• Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando (1888–1954), Austrian author und designer
• Joe Orlando (1927—1998), Italian American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist
• Tony Orlando (born 1944), American singer
• Leoluca Orlando (born 1947), Italian politician
• Orlando Tubby Smith (born 1951), college basketball coach
• Silvio Orlando (born 1957), Italian lawyer and actor
• Bo Orlando (born 1966), American football player
• Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1860—1952), Italian prime minister
• Bobby Orlando, American dance music artist and record producer, also known as "Bobby O"

[edit] Culture

[edit] Literature

• Orlando Furioso, an epic poem written by Ludovico Ariosto
• Orlando Innamorato, an epic poem written by Matteo Maria Boiardo
• Orlando: A Biography, a novel by Virginia Woolf
• Orlando (The Marmalade Cat), the cat from a series of illustrated children's books
• Orlando, a character in William Shakespeare's As You Like It

[edit] Film and television

• Orlando (film), a film based on the novel Orlando
• Orlando (TV series), an early 1960s British thriller series for young adults

[edit] Music

• Orlando (opera), an opera seria by Handel
• Orlando paladino (English: The Paladin Orlando), an opera by Joseph Haydn
• Orlando finto pazzo, an opera by Vivaldi
• Orlando furioso (Vivaldi), an opera by Vivaldi
• Orlando (band), an English band of the 1990s
• Orlando Magic Drum and Bugle Corps, which formed in the 1980s, folded in the 1990s, and re-formed to compete as The Magic Drum and Bugle Corps in 2002

[edit] Other

• Orlando Juice
• Orlando Wines, a winery located in the Barossa Valley of South Australia
• USS Orlando (PF-99), a Tacoma-class United States Navy frigate
• Orlando (rose), a popular breed of rose with soft pink with deeper pink tips