Rowland, Tiny

British entrepreneur, financier, and newspaper proprietor. Rowland emigrated to Southern Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe), in 1947. He was co-chief executive and managing director of Lonrho (originally the London and Rhodesia Mining and Land Company) from 1961 to 1994, and transformed it from a small mining company into a huge international conglomerate. Rowland was later the owner of The Observer Sunday newspaper from 1981 to 1993.

Rowland's approach to running Lonrho was famously referred to as the ‘unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism’ by former UK prime minister Edward Heath. His latter career was marked by a series of quarrels, often conducted in The Observer – most notably with former Lonrho director Mohamed al-Fayed who had taken control of department store Harrods following Rowland's unsuccessful bid. In November 1994, following a long-running power struggle with his joint-chief executive, Rowland provoked the Lonrho board into dismissing him as managing director.