Rosalind
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Rosalind or Rosalinde is a girls' name derived from the Germanic hros, which meant horse, and lind which meant soft or tender:
People
- Rosalind Ashford (born 1943), American singer, member of Martha and the Vandellas
- Rosalind Blauer (1943–1973), Canadian economist
- Rosalind Brett, writer of romance novels
- Rosalind Cash (1938–1995), American singer and actress
- Rosalind Chao (born 1957), American actress born in Anaheim, California
- Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British physical chemist and crystallographer who made very important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of coal and graphite, DNA and viruses
- Rosalind Hackett, American historian
- Rosalind Halstead (born 1984), British actress
- Rosalind Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn (1869–1958), British aristocrat
- Rosalind Heywood (1895–1980), British psychical researcher
- Rosalind Hicks (1919–2005), British literary guardian and only child of Agatha Christie
- Rosalind Hursthouse (born 1943), philosopher whose theories are centred to the abortion debate
- Rosalind Knight (1933–2020), English actress
- Rosalind Newman (born 1946), American choreographer
- Rosalind Peychaud (born 1948), New Orleans civic activist
- Rosalind Ridley (born 1949), British neuropsychologist
- Rosalind Rowe (1933–2015), English table tennis player
- Rosalind Russell (1907–1976), American actress
Astronomy
- 900 Rosalinde, asteroid
- Rosalind (moon), moon of Uranus
Horses
- Rosalind (harness horse), foaled 1933, 1936 Hambletonian winner
Literature
- Rosalind (As You Like It), a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It
- Rosalind, the object of Colin Clout's love in Edmund Spenser's poem The Shepheardes Calender
- "Rosalind", a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Rosalind, a play by J. M. Barrie
Places
- Rosalind, Alberta, rural Canadian town
- Rosalind Bank
Other
- Rosalind (education platform), platform and web project for learning bioinformatics through problem solving
- HMS Rosalind, a British R-class destroyer launched in 1916 and scrapped in 1926