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), Luxembourgish 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)
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