Dane

Dane may refer to:

General

• Someone from the Kingdom of Denmark, or of Danish descent
  • Dane, a Danish national, resident or citizen (see Demographics of Denmark)
  • Dane, one of the Danish people
  • Dane, a member of the Danes (Germanic tribe)
  • East Danes, an Anglo-Saxon ethnonym used in the epic Beowulf
• DANE, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (National Administrative Department of Statistics) of Colombia
• DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) is a working group developing protocols that allow certificates to be bound to DNS names using Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).
• Great Dane, a breed of dog

Places

• Dane, Ontario, Canada
• Dane County, Wisconsin, a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin (named after Nathan Dane)
  • Dane (town), Wisconsin, a town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States
    • Dane, Wisconsin, a village in the town of Dane, Wisconsin
• Dane Prairie Township, Minnesota, a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States
• River Dane, a river mainly in Cheshire in northwest England
• Daneş, a commune in Mureş County, Romania

People

• Alexandra Dane (born 1946), South African actress
• Barbara Dane (born 1927), American singer
• Claire Danes (born 1979), American film, television, and theater actress
• Dana Dane, American hip-hop artist
• Eric Dane (born 1972), American actor
• Francis Dane (1615-1697), minister in colonial Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials
• Jordan Dane (born 1953), American novelist
• Joseph Dane (1778-1858), American congressman from Maine
• Karl Dane (1886-1934), Danish-American silent film actor
• Lloyd Dane (born 1925), American race car driver
• Maxwell Dane (1906-2004), American advertising executive
• Nathan Dane (1752–1835), American lawyer and statesman representing Massachusetts in the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1787
• Patricia Dane (1919-1995), American film actress
• Warrel Dane (born 1969), American singer

Fictional or legendary

• Dane (Wildstorm), a fictional character from WildStorm Productions, now owned by DC Comics
• The Dane, a term for Prince Hamlet of Denmark, a character in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet
• Saint Dane, a character in the Pendragon series
• Dane O'Neill, a character in Colleen McCulloch's book The Thorn Birds

See also

• All pages beginning with "Dane"
• All pages with titles containing "Dane"