Sir Rowland Arthur Charles Sperling KCMG CB (4 January 1874 –1 August 1965) was a British diplomat who served as ambassador to Switzerland, Bulgaria, and Finland.

[1] He was sent to Russia in 1902 to learn Russian before becoming acting third secretary in St Petersburg in the Diplomatic Service.

He was attached to the Paris Peace Conference : assistant secretary Foreign Office 1919.

[1] In 1905, Sperling married Dorothy Constance Kingsmill (1874–1951), daughter of William Howley Kingsmill (1838–1894), DL, JP, of Sydmonton Court, Sydmonton, and Constance Mary(died 1947), daughter of Sir Wyndham Spencer Portal, 1st Bt.

[1] One son was killed on active service in a flying accident at Manston Airport in March 1940.