Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".He was a leading supporter of Joseph Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with and influence on Sigmund Freud.