Ran
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Ran, ran, RaN and/or RAN may refer to:
In film and television:
- RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series) was a 2006 Australian TV series
- Ran (film), a 1985 film directed by Akira Kurosawa
- (Ran), a character with no additional name in the Japanese television anime Urusei Yatsura
- Tsukikage Ran, both the name of an anime, and the name of 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:
- 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 (a three letter acronym) may refer to:
- Radio access network, part of a mobile telecommunications system
- Royal Australian Navy
- Remote Area Nurse
- Rainforest Action Network, an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Return Authorization Number
RaN may refer to:
- Nissim of Gerona, Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven
- Remote Asynchronous Node Hardware Equipment used by Legacy Serial Based Star Networks.
Other uses:
- Ran (biology), a small GTPase that is involved in import and export within a cell nucleus as well as mitosis
- Ran Online, an MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game)
- Russian Academy of Sciences (transliteration of its Russian acronym Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk)
- Russian Assembly of Nobility