Rand

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Rand may refer to a number of places, people, organizations, and acronyms.

Places named Rand include:

• Rand, New South Wales, a small town in Australia
• Rand, Lincolnshire, a small village in Lincolnshire, England
• Rand, Colorado, a small unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, U.S.
• Rand Mining District, an area in Kern County, California, containing, inter alia, the town of Randsburg
• The Witwatersrand, a ridge that runs through Gauteng, South Africa, which includes the East Rand and West Rand

People named Rand include:

• Ayn Rand, American writer
• Austin L. Rand, Canadian zoologist
• Mary Rand, British athlete and Olympic champion
• Paul Rand, American graphic designer
• Ivan Rand, Supreme Court of Canada justice who introduced the Rand formula
• William H. Rand, founder of Rand McNally
• Sally Rand, actor and dancer
• Shuli and Michal Batsheva Rand, husband and wife, Israeli actors

Fictional characters named Rand include:

• Rand al'Thor, the main character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy fiction series
• Janice Rand, a character in the Star Trek universe
• Atton Rand, a character from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
• a character from the fictional Third Robotech War

Companies and organizations named Rand include:

• The RAND Corporation, an American think-tank
• Remington Rand, an American computer firm and general manufacturer
• Sperry Rand, an American equipment and electronics company
• Ingersoll-Rand, a diversified American industrial firm
• Rand McNally, an American map publisher and printer

RAND or Rand is also used as an abbreviation or acronym for:

• In computer science, any of a number of pseudorandom number generator functions
• Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing, a type of licensing used during a standardisation process

Rand may also refer to the following:

• South African rand, the national currency of South Africa (abbreviation: R, ISO-4217-Code: ZAR)
• Rand index, a technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters
• Rand formula, a formula in Canadian labor law
• Rand, Slang for courtesan

[edit] See also

• James Randi, American stage magician and skeptic
• Krugerrand, a South African gold coin
• Randlord, a term used to denote the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase