Rollie

This article is about the nickname and given name. For the cigarette paper, see Rolling paper. For the Scottish bread roll, see Buttery (bread). For the Swiss timepiece manufacturer, see Rolex.

Rollie is a nickname, often for Roland or Rolland, and occasionally a given name which may refer to:

Rolands

• Rollie Boutin (born 1957), Canadian retired ice hockey goaltender
• Rollie Cook (born 1952), Canadian politician
• Rollie Dotsch (1933-1988), American professional football coach
• Rollie Fingers (born 1946), American retired Major League Baseball Hall-of-Fame pitcher
• Granville Roland Fortescue (1875-1952), American soldier, presidential aide (to cousin Theodore Roosevelt), journalist and war correspondent
• Rollie Free (1900-1984), American motorcycle racer who broke the American former land speed record in 1948
• Rollie Massimino (1934–2017), American college basketball coach and former player
• Roland McLenahan (1921-1984), Canadian National Hockey League player
• Roland Melanson (born 1960), Canadian retired ice hockey goaltender and coach, nicknamed "Rollie the goalie"
• Rollie Miles (1927-1995), Canadian Football League player
• Roland Paulhus (1901-1964), Canadian National Hockey League player
• Roland Pemberton (born 1986), Canadian rapper under the stage name Cadence Weapon
• Felix Rossignol (1920-1981), Canadian ice hockey player
• Rollie Sheldon (born 1936), American retired Major League Baseball pitcher
• Roland “Rollie” Page Dimick (born 1969), American, Pediatrician, artist, philosopher, designer, entrepreneur.

Rollands

• Rolland Busch (1920-1985), Australian theologian and Presbyterian and Uniting Church minister
• Rollie Greeno (1926-2010), American college football coach
• Rolland W. Redlin (1920-2011), American politician
• Rollie Seltz (1924–2022), American retired basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association's first season
• Rollie Stiles (1906-2007), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Rollie Williams (1897-1968), American National Football League player in 1923 and college basketball and football coach

Presumed given name

• Rollie Cook (Canadian football) (born c. 1936), former Canadian Football League player
• Rollie Zeider (1883-1967), American Major League Baseball player

Other

• Stratton Rollins Rollie Heath (born 1937), American politician, Democratic Majority Leader of the Colorado State Senate
• Ralston Rollie Hemsley (1907-1972), American Major League Baseball catcher
• Roleine Rollie Naylor (1892-1966), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Rollin Prather (1925-1996), Canadian Football League player
• Rollie Lynn Riggs (1899-1954), American author, poet and playwright

Fictional characters

• Roland Tyler, protagonist of the films F/X and F/X2, played by Bryan Brown

See also

• Rolly (disambiguation)