Ran
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The term Ran can refer to:
In film and television:
- RAN (Remote Area Nurse) was a 2006 Australian TV series
- Ran (film), a 1985 film directed by the master Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa
- Ran is a character with no additional name in the Japanese television anime Urusei Yatsura
- Tsukikage Ran, an anime, or its title character
- Rachel Moore, also called Ran Mori, a fictional character in the manga Case Closed (known as Detective Conan in Japan)
- Ran Kotobuki, a fictional character in the shōjo manga Gals!
In people and culture:
- Ran# is an Alternative Rock band
- Rán, an ancient Norse goddess
- A tribe in Arunachal Pradesh region of India
- Ran Ito, a member of the 1970s Japanese pop idol group, Candies
- Ran, a popular character from the Megaman sprite comic Bob and George
- Ran Hibiki, a character from the Rival Schools video game series
- Ran Yakumo, a character from the Touhou Project scrolling shooters
Ran may also refer to:
- RAN is an acronym for the Radio access network a core piece in GSM Telecommunications Usually parts of a RAN will oversee the Base Station Subsystem as well as parts of the Network Switching Subsystem
- RAN is an acronym for the Royal Australian Navy
- RAN is an acronym for Remote Area Nurse
- Ran, a small GTPase that is involved in import and export within a cell nucleus as well as mitosis
- The Rainforest Action Network, an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Ran Online
- RAN is an acronym for Return Authorization Number
- RaN is an acronym for Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven.