Rohan Candappa is a British-born-Sri Lankan-Canadian writer.

Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his first three novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novels to date have been set in India, told from the perspective of Parsis, and explore themes of family life, poverty, discrimination, and the corrupting influence of society.

Roi Cooper Megrue was an American playwright, producer, and director active on Broadway from 1914 to 1921.

Roisin Meaney, is an Irish novelist based in Limerick.

Rokhl Brokhes was a Yiddish-language writer from Minsk. She was the author of stories, plays, and children's stories.

Rolan Antonovich Bykov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, director, screenwriter and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1990).

Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. His ideas explored a diverse range of fields and influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, anthropology, literary theory, and post-structuralism.

Roland Dorgelès was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt.

Roland Greene Usher was a Massachusetts politician who served as the 11th Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.

Roland Huntford is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers.