Roundhead (disambiguation)
The word roundhead or roundheads may refer to any of several things.
In English history, "roundhead" can refer to:
- Roundhead, a supporter of the Parliamentarian and Puritan faction during the English Civil War
- more generally, any member of the Puritan movement in English history
- Roundhead (weapon), a type of mace used during the English Civil War
Names:
- Roundhead, a Wyandot chief who fought in the War of 1812
- "Roundhead" refers to the earliest complex of rock art paintings prevalent in the south east of the Tassili n'Ajjer plateau (Algeria)
Several organisms have the English common name "roundhead":
- Roundhead, also known as longfin, is a common name for fish of the family Plesiopidae
- Roundhead galaxias (Galaxias anomalus), a species of galaxiid fish
- Roundhead, a common name occasionally used for mushrooms of the genus Stropharia
Several place names in the United States carry the name "Roundhead":
- Roundhead Township, Hardin County, Ohio
- Roundhead, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Roundhead Township
- Roundhead, a peak near Fredericksburg, Texas
- Roundhead Butte, a peak in the Buffalo Plateau of southern Montana
- Roundhead Mountain, a peak near Stanley, Virginia
In coastal engineering, "roundhead" is:
- the offshore tip of a breakwater (structure)
In popular culture, "roundhead" can refer to:
- Roundheads and Pointheads, a play by Bertolt Brecht with music by Hanns Eisler
- The Roundheads, a Doctor Who novel
- Roundhead, terminology commonly used in Melbourne, Australia to describe a Gunzel or Trainspotter
- Roundhead Studios, a New Zealand-based music and sound recording studio owned by Neil Finn
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