What is "orlando"

masc. proper name, Italian form of Roland (q.v.). The city in Florida, U.S., so called from 1857, supposedly in honor of a U.S. soldier, Orlando Reeves, who was killed there in 1835 by Seminoles. It had been settled c.1844 as Jernigan.

Orlando is a major city in the U.S. state of Florida, famous for its world-renowned tourist destinations.

Orlando may also refer to:

Orlando is a 1992 British film based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I. It was directed by Sally Potter.

It was particularly acclaimed for its visual treatment of the settings of Woolf's 1928 novel. Potter chose to film much of the Constantinople portion of the book in the isolated city of Khiva in Uzbekistan, and made use of the forest of carved columns in the city's 18th century Djuma Mosque.

The film premiered at the 49th Venice International Film Festival, in which it entered the main competition. Orlando was rereleased by Sony Pictures Classics in select theatres starting 6 August 2010.

Orlando is a British television thriller series for young adults which ran for four series between 1965 and 1968. Made by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network, it stars Sam Kydd as Orlando O'Connor, the character he had played in the adult television series Crane.

Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) is the eponymous hero of a series of 19 illustrated children's books written by Kathleen Hale between 1938 and 1972, issued by various publishers including Country Life.

Orlando's family consist of his wife Grace, and three kittens: Blanche, Pansy and Tinkle. In A Seaside Holiday, they stay in the town of 'Owlbarrow', a thinly disguised version of Aldeburgh on the coast of Suffolk: many of the illustrations feature landmarks in the town.

Books in the series are:

• Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): A Camping Holiday (1938)
• Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): A Trip Abroad (1939)
• Orlando's Evening Out (1941)
• Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): Buys a Farm (1942)
• Orlando's Home Life (1942)
• Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): His Silver Wedding (1944)
• Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): Becomes a Doctor (1944)
• Orlando's Invisible Pyjamas (1947)
• Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): Keeps a Dog (1949)
• Orlando the Judge (1950)
• Orlando, the Marmalade Cat. A Seaside Holiday (1952)
• Orlando's Zoo (1954)
• Orlando (the Marmalade Cat): The Frisky Housewife (1956)
• Orlando's Magic Carpet (1958)
• Orlando's Country Peepshow (1959)
• Orlando, the Marmalade Cat, Buys a Cottage (1963)
• Orlando and the Three Graces (1965)
• Orlando Goes to the Moon (1968)
• Orlando and the Water Cats (1972)

Orlando (foaled 1841) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the Epsom Derby and as a Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland.

Orlando ( HWV 31) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written for the King's Theatre in London in 1733. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's L'Orlando after Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, which was also the source of Handel's operas Alcina and Ariodante. More an artistic than a popular success at its first performances, Orlando is today recognised as a masterpiece.

Orlando is the historic estate of William Wood, Jr. in Andover, Massachusetts. Wood's father, William Madison Wood, was owner of the American Woolen Company, whose home was the Arden estate next door to where Orlando was built c. 1915. Orlando is a distinctive Spanish Mission style mansion of 2.5 stories, with a green tile roof. It may have been a wedding present, for it was built around the time of Wood, Jr.'s marriage. Located at 260 N. Main Street, it now houses the private Lanam Club.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Orlando is a French record label, owned by Bruno Gigliotti also known as Orlando. He is the brother of French singer Dalida, for whom he used to be the manager. In the late 1960s, he founded the Orlando label as a vehicle to release and to control Dalida's musical output.

Orlando were an English Romo band of the 1990s. They were one of seven core Romo acts featured by Melody Maker in their guide to the Romo scene and were subsequently cited as being "figureheads" of the scene. As well as substantial coverage in Melody Maker, the band also received press coverage from the NME, Select Smash Hits and Penthouse UK

The band consisted of Dickon Edwards, Tim Chipping, Neil Turner, Mike Austen and David Gray. Musically, Orlando combined the synthesized dance-pop of 1990s boybands and American swingbeat acts with verbose lyrics in the general style of Morrissey and Richey Edwards.

In March 1996 the band's song "Nature's Hated" was included in Melody Maker's covermount cassette Fiddling While Romo Burns. In the summer of that year Orlando released their first single, "Just for a Second." In Autumn of that year they released the Magic EP. A new version of "Nature's Hated", the group's third single, was released in 1997, and they also contributed a cover of Tim Hardin's "How Can We Hang On to a Dream" to the soundtrack of the film Fever Pitch.

In September 1997 the band released their album, Passive Soul, through the label Blanco y Negro. It made both the Melody Maker and Gay Times albums of the year list The album is now hard to find and commands upwards of £30 on the collectors market.

Shortly after the release of the album, Edwards left the band form Fosca who released three albums between 2000-2008. Chipping took over as lyricist and the new Orlando recorded a second album Sick Folk with a new folk music sound. Orlando disbanded in spring 2000 with the album still unreleased. In 2002, Chipping uploaded six songs from Sick Folk to his own website.

Orlando is a fictional character and the male lead in the comedy As You Like It (1599/1600) by William Shakespeare.

Orlando is the younger son of the deceased Sir Rowland de Boys and brother of Oliver. He is brave, chivalrous, tender, modest, smart, strong, handsome and beloved by all. He resents the harsh treatment he receives at Oliver's hands and complains that Oliver is neglecting to educate him; Orlando feels that he is being kept like livestock. Despite this neglect, Orlando's talents and his aristocratic nature reveal themselves, and he becomes his father's favourite. He has a will to attain knowledge and wanted to go to school. Nevertheless, he is not successful in expressing his love for Rosalind to her.

At the start of the play Orlando complains about the harsh treatment given to him by his brother, Oliver, and says that Oliver will not even give him the paltry sum of 1000 crowns left to him in their father's will. He is portrayed as exceptionally strong in both body and in his devotion to love. It is these qualities that make Rosalind fall for him as well.

After angering Oliver's crony Duke Frederick, Orlando flees his familiar surroundings to live in exile in the Forest of Arden. There, he is accepted into the circle of the usurped Duke Senior and is eventually united in marriage with his daughter, Rosalind. Actor Laurence Olivier notably played the character in a 1936 film with Elizabeth Bergner opposite him as Rosalind.

Orlando is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alberto Orlando (born 1938), Italian former footballer
• Alessandro Orlando (born 1970), Italian retired footballer
• Alexandra Orlando (born 1987), Italian Canadian rhythmic gymnast
• Andrea Orlando (born 1969), Italian politician
• Angelo Orlando (born 1965), Italian football coach and retired player
• Bo Orlando (born 1966), American football player
• Bobby Orlando, American dance music artist and record producer
• Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando (born 1963), Maltese politician
• Joe Orlando (1927-1998), Italian American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist
• Leoluca Orlando (born 1947), Italian politician
• Massimo Orlando (born 1971), Italian football coach and former player
• Orazio Orlando (1937-1990), Italian actor
• Paulo Orlando (born 1985), Brazilian-born Major League Baseball player
• Silvio Orlando (born 1957), Italian actor
• Tony Orlando (born 1944), American singer
• Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1860—1952), Italian prime minister

Orlando Surname Research & One-Name Study

Registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies in February 2002.

• Orlando Profile
• Orlando One-Name Study website
• Orlando Surname Group

DNA Project

• Orlando DNA Project

Orlando News

• Newsletter published - ISSN 2053-8987

Surname Frequency

The surname appears most frequently in Italy and the United States. <!--There are Orlando's across the globe and collating the data is going to be a lifetime's work and will almost certainly outlive me!

There have been instances of the surname within the British Isles since the early 1800s and in some cases they were merely passing through, using the British Isles as a stepping stone to pastures new, probably the United States.

Category:Italian-language surnames

Orlando is a masculine given name, the Italian form of the given name Roland. Notable people with the name include:

• Orlando Baccino (born 1970), Argentine judoka
• Orlando Bloom (born 1977), British actor
• Orlando Bosch (1926-2011), Cuban exile militant and anti-Castro terrorist
• Orlando Bridgeman (disambiguation)
• Orlando Brown (actor) (born 1987), American actor
• Orlando Cabrera (born 1974), Colombian baseball player
• Orlando Canizales (born 1965), American boxer and International Boxing Federation bantamweight champion
• Orlando Catinchi (born 1957), Puerto Rican breaststroke swimmer
• Orlando Cepeda (born 1937), Puerto Rican baseball player
• Orlando dos Santos Costa (born 1981), Brazilian footballer
• Orlando Engelaar (born 1979), Dutch footballer
• Orlando Figes (born 1959), British historian of Russia
• Orlando Jacinto Garcia (born 1954), Cuban-born American composer
• Orlando Luis Garcia (born 1952), United States district court judge
• Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625), English composer
• Orlando Gutiérrez (born 1976), Spanish footballer known as Orlando
• Orlando Hernández (born 1965), Cuban-born American baseball player
• Orlando Hudson (born 1977), American baseball player
• Orlando Jones (born 1968), American comedian and actor
• Orlando Jordan (born 1980), American professional wrestler
• Orlande de Lassus (1530 or 1532–1594), Franco-Flemish composer also known as Orlando di Lasso
• Orlando Letelier (1932–1976), Chilean economist, politician and diplomat
• Orlando Merced (born 1966), Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball player
• Orlando Pace (born 1975), American National Football League player
• Orlando Palmeiro (born 1969), former Major League Baseball player
• Orlando Peçanha de Carvalho (1935-2010), Brazilian football defender known as Orlando
• Orlando Peña (born 1933), Cuban former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Orlando Metcalfe Poe (1832-1895), Union Army general and engineer in the American Civil War
• Orlando M. Pilchard, nom de plume of Nick Pelling (born 1964), British computer programmer
• Orlando Pizzolato (born 1958), Italian long-distance runner
• Orlando Quintana (born 1978), Spanish football goalkeeper
• Orlando Reeves, eponym of Orlando, Florida
• Orlando Serrell (born 1968), American savant
• Orlando Smeekes (born 1981), Curaçaoan footballer
• Orlando Smith (born 1944), Premier of the British Virgin Islands
• Orlando Tubby Smith (born 1951), college basketball coach
• Orlando Vásquez (born 1969), Nicaraguan weightlifter
• Orlando Ward (1891–1972), American major general
• Orlando Woolridge (1959-2012), American National Basketball Association player
• Orlando Zapata (1967–2010), Cuban human rights activist