Dan

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Dan is a masculine name. It refers sometimes to the short form of the name Daniel. Dan, or the acronym DAN may refer to the following:

Persons

• Fyodor Dan, a Russian Marxist revolutionary
• DJ Dan, an electronic music artist who uses the singular name "Dan" as his stage name
• Dan (Bible), one of the sons of Jacob

Places

• Gush Dan, metropolitan area in central Israel
• Tel Dan, an archaeological site in Israel
• Dan (biblical city), the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan
• Dan, Israel, a Kibbutz in northern Israel
• Dan River, a river in North Carolina and Virginia, USA
• Dan River (Israel) a tributary of the Jordan River

Mythical figures

• Dan Young (king), the name of one or more legendary Danish kings

Fictional characters

• Dan Dare, a classic British science fiction comic hero
• Desperate Dan, regular in The Dandy since 1937
• Dan (aka TriceraRanger), from the Japanese television series Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger
• Dan (Salamander anime), one of the main protagonists who pilots the Vic Viper
• Dan, from the comedy series "I'm Alan Partridge" where Alan repeatedly shouts "DAN" when he spots his friend dan (who later he calls a "Sex Person") across the carpark
• Dan Hibiki, from the Street Fighter video game series
• Dan Sclarkenberg, a character in the movie Cars

Organizations

• Dan Air, a defunct airline in the United Kingdom
• Dan Bus Company, a public transport company in Israel
• Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), an organization concerned with autism
• Divers Alert Network, a non-profit organization for Scuba diving
• Direct Action Network, a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
• Dan Hotels, a hotel chain in Israel

Other

• Dan (1914 film), a film with Lois Meredith
• Dan (Chinese opera), a female role in Beijing opera
• DAN (protein) family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
• Dan (newspaper), 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 the West Africa
• Dan (rank) in Japanese, Chinese and Korean fine and martial arts
• Dorsal attention network, a sensory orienting system in the brain
• Document Access Number
• Tribe of Dan, one of the Tribes of Israel

[edit] See also

• Daniel (disambiguation)
• daN (decanewton), unit of force—see newton, kilogram-force

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