Ran

Ran, ran, RaN and/or RAN may refer to:

Organizations

• Rainforest Action Network
• Russian Academy of Sciences (transliteration of its Russian acronym Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk)
• The Royal Australian Navy

People

• Nissim of Gerona, Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven
• Ran is a Hebrew male name: (Hebrew: רן‎), homophone of רַן (sing), and related to the root רן, which means "gladness"
• Ran is a Japanese female first name, which can mean "orchid" (JP: 蘭 Rān) or "indigo" (i.e. the color) (JP: 藍 Rān); depending on the character. In some cases it means "water lily"
• Ran Ito, a member of the 1970s Japanese pop idol group, Candies

Film and television

• Ran (film), a 1985 film directed by Akira Kurosawa
• RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series), a 2006 Australian TV series

Fictional Characters

• Rachel Moore (Case Closed), 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!
• Ran Uzaki, main character from the Japanese television series Juken Sentai Gekiranger
• Ran, a popular character from the "Megaman" sprite comic, Bob and George
• Ran Hibiki, a character from the Rival Schools video game series
• Ran (Shugo Chara!), a fictional character in the manga series Shugo Chara! by Peach-Pit
• Ran Yakumo, a character from the Touhou Project scrolling shooters
• Tsukikage Ran, both the name of an anime, and the name of its title character
• Ran, a character with no additional name in the Japanese television anime, Urusei Yatsura

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)
• ran, in mathematics, an abbreviation of range
• A tribe in Arunachal Pradesh region of India
• Rán, an ancient Norse goddess

See also

RAN (disambiguation)