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Rohan is both a given name and a surname. It has multiple origins, including Persian, Indian, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and Japanese.^[1]

In Persian, Rohan means good character and piousness.^[1] In Sanskrit and Urdu, it means “ascending” or “ascent.”^[2] It is also the name of Sri Vishnu.^[1] In Arabic, it means “spiritual.”^[2] In Gaelic, Rohan is a variant of the name Rowan, which can mean red, red-haired, or rusty.^[1] 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.^[1]

The later European surname is derived from Rohan, a commune in the Brittany region of France.^[1]

Notable people with the name include:

• 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 Patel (born 1989), American, Medicine & Indiana University (Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society) IU Biology Honors
• Rohan Pethiyagoda (born 1955), Sri Lankan taxonomist
• Rohan Ricketts (born 1981), English footballer
• Rohan Sinanan, Trinidad and Tobago politician
• Rohan Sippy, Indian film director
• Rohan Smith (born 1973), Australian rules footballer
• Rohan Suppiah (born 1982), Malaysian cricketer
• Rohan Birdi (born 1996) , Mechanical engineer and Indian businessman

• Alexander J. Rohan (1911–1985), American labor union leader
• 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
• Jack Rohan (1931–2004), American college basketball player and coach
• John Murray Rohan (1889–1960), Australian sports journalist.
• 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
• William M. Rohan (1873–1959), farmer and assemblyman from Wisconsin