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

• Bernadette Weyland, German politician
• 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
• Hermann Weyland (1888–1974), German botanist and chemist
• 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 vs. Predator franchises Alien and Predator:
  • Charles Bishop Weyland, a fictional character from Alien vs. Predator (2004) and the original founder of Weyland Industries pre-2004 — see Bishop (Aliens)
  • Weyland Corporation (Weyland Industries), a fictional technology corporation predecessor to Weyland-Yutani, founded by Peter Weyland in 2012 who was in turn introduced in the movie Prometheus (2012 film); in ancillary materials released with the Blu-ray release of the film, he is implied to be Charles Bishop Weyland's son, having formed a new company in their surname after his father's death
  • Weyland-Yutani, a fictional megacorporation from the Alien franchise
• In the Death Race franchise:
  • R. H. Weyland. a corporate businessman that gets the rights to Death Race taken over by a rich, young, business opportunist playboy, named Niles York
  • Weyland Corporation (Weyland International), a fictional private corporation running the prison system on Terminal Island and hosting the Death Match, a televised pay-per-view competition where two dangerous convicts are chosen and then forced to fight to the death or submission.
• 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 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

See also

• Wayland (disambiguation)
• Weiland in Wiktionary
• Weiland (disambiguation)
• Wieland (disambiguation)
• Woland
• Wyland (disambiguation)