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Weyland

Weyland or Weylandt may refer to:

In mythology
  • Weyland or Wayland the Smith, a legendary smith in Germanic and Norse mythology
    • Völundarkviða, the Lay of Weyland, a Norse epic poem about the smith
People
  • Thomas Weyland (1230–1298), British justice
  • Jacob Weyland (fl. 1705), Dutch explorer of the New Guinea coast who discovered Geelvink Bay
  • Richard Weyland (1780–1864), British politician
  • Joseph Weyland (1826–1894), German bishop
  • Paul Weyland (1888–1972), German anti-Semitic conman and agitator who organized an anti-Einstein campaign
  • Otto P. Weyland (1903–1979), American Air Force General
  • Marcel Weyland (born 1927), Polish-Australian translator
  • Jack Weyland (born 1940), American physicist and author
  • Joseph Weyland (born 1943), Luxembourgian diplomat
  • Wouter Weylandt (1984–2011), Belgian cyclist who died in the Giro d'Italia
Fiction
  • In the Alien-Predator franchise:
    • Charles Bishop Weyland, a fictional character from Alien vs. Predator—see Bishop (Aliens)
    • Weyland-Yutani, a fictional megacorporation from the Alien franchise
    • Weyland Corporation, a fictional technology corporation predecessor to Weyland-Yutani, founded by Peter Weyland who was in turn introduced in the movie Prometheus (2012 film)
  • Weyland Smith from The Fables Vertigo Comics title
  • John Wayland Smith, a fictional blacksmith from The Dark Is Rising Sequence fantasy series by Susan Cooper
  • Weyland, a space station in the Honorverse, see List of locations in the Honorverse
  • Weyland Consortium, a fictional megacorporation from Android: Netrunner
  • Cadmann Weyland, a fictional character from the science fiction novels The Legacy of Heorot and Beowulf's Children co-authored by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes.
Other
  • Point Weyland, headland in South Australia
  • The Weyland Mountains or Köbowrè Range in West Papua named after Jacob Weyland
  • Weyland ringtail possum (Pseudochirulus caroli), a species of marsupial from Papua named after the mountains