Dan
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Dan is a given name or a nickname for people named Daniel.
Dan, or the acronym DAN may refer to the following:
People
- Dan (Bible), one of the sons of Jacob.
- Crown Prince Dan, prince of Yan in ancient China.
- Fyodor Dan, a Russian Marxist revolutionary.
- Nicușor Dan, a Romanian activist and mathematician.
- DJ Dan, an electronic music artist.
Places
- Gush Dan, metropolitan area in central Israel
- Dan (ancient city), the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan
- Dan (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
- Dan, Israel, a Kibbutz in northern Israel
- Dan River, river in North Carolina and Virginia, United States
- Dan River (Middle East), tributary of the Jordan River
- Dan River (Shaanxi), tributary of the Han River in Shaanxi, China
- Dan, subdistrict of Kap Choeng District, Thailand
- Dan, West Virginia
Fictional characters
- Dan Dare, a classic British science fiction comic hero
- Desperate Dan, regular in The Dandy since 1937
- Dan Cahill, a character from The 39 clues
- Dan Hibiki, a character from the Street Fighter Alpha series.
- Dan Moroboshi, the alter-ego of Ultra Seven from the 1967 namesake tokusatsu
- Dan Humphrey, fictional character in Gossip Girl
Organizations
- Dan-Air, a defunct airline in the United Kingdom
- Dan Bus Company, a public transport company in Israel
- Dan Hotels, a hotel chain in Israel
- Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), an organization concerned with autism
- Dialogue Australasian Network, an educational organization
- Direct Action Network, a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
- Divers Alert Network, a non-profit organization for Scuba diving
Other
- Dan, a 1914 film starring Lois Meredith
- Dan (Chinese opera), a female role in Beijing opera
- DAN (protein), a family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
- Dan (newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Montenegro
- Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
- Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa
- Dan (rank) in Japanese, Chinese and Korean martial arts and Go
- Dorsal attention network, a sensory orienting system in the brain
- Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, a scientific instrument on board the Curiosity rover
- Tribe of Dan, one of the Tribes of Israel
See also
- Daniel (disambiguation)
- daN (decanewton), unit of force—see newton, kilogram-force
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