Aryan (disambiguation)
Appearance
Aryan was a self-designation by Indo-Iranian people.
Aryan or Arya may also refer to:
Ethno-linguistics
- Indo-Iranians, a prehistoric people
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Indo-Aryan peoples, people speaking the Indo-Aryan languages
- Iranian languages
- Iranian peoples, people speaking the Iranian languages
- People from the Aria region during antiquity, now Herat in western Afghanistan
- People from Ariana, the larger area that Aria was a part of, corresponding to Khorasan during the medieval period
- Inhabitants of the Sasanian Empire, the name of which in Middle Persian, Eran Shah, means Aryan Empire
- Proto-Indo-Europeans, in works published in the 19th century and early 20th century
- Aryan race (dated), a discredited racial grouping popular in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries in Europe
- Nordic race (dated), a racialist concept called "Nordicism" developed by Ariosophy and later adopted by the Nazis
- Nordic aliens or Aryan aliens
- Aryan language (disambiguation)
- Aryan languages (disambiguation)
- Aryan religion (disambiguation)
People
- Arya (name), a Persian and Indian given name (including a list of persons with the name)
- Aryan (name), a given name and surname that is popular in India and Iran
- Arya (actor) (born 1980), south Indian actor
- Arya (actress), Indian actress
- Gabriel Arya (7th century AD), Syriac writer from Arabia
- Aryan Pandit, an Indian actor and model
Organizations
- Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda
- Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist street gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States
- Aryan Guard, a neo-Nazi group based in Alberta, Canada
- Aryan Nations, a white supremacist religious organization
- White Aryan Resistance, a neo-Nazi white separatist organization
Films
- The Aryan, 1915 American silent film
- Aryan (1988 film)
- Arya (2004 film), a Telugu Tollywood film starring Allu Arjun
- Arya 2, a 2009 Telugu film
- Aryan: Unbreakable, a 2006 Indian film
- Arya (2007 film), a Tamil film starring R. Madhavan and Bhavana
- Aryan (2014 film), a 2014 Kannada-language film
- Arya (TV series), 2020 Indian TV series
- Aarya (film), a 2007 Tamil-language romantic comedy film
Places
- Herat, Afghanistan, a city in Northwest Afghanistan
- Varian, Iran, a village in Alborz Province, Iran
- Aryan, Kurdistan, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
- Aryan, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Arya (urban-type settlement), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
Other uses
- Arya (Buddhism), a concept in Buddhism
- Arya: A Philosophical Review, a monthly periodical published in India from 1914 to 1921
- Arya metre, a poetic metre used in Sanskrit and Prakrit verse
- Arya F.C., an Iranian football club
- "Arya", a 2022 song by Nigo
- Aryan Singh, fictional criminal featured in the 2006 Indian film Dhoom 2, played by Hritik Roshan
See also
- Ari (name) (Aryeh), an Aramaic given name used in a blessing in the Bible
- Ariya (disambiguation)
- Aria (disambiguation)
- Arian (disambiguation)
- Ariane (rocket family), a series of space vehicles
- Arrian (86 A.D. – 2nd century A.D.), Greek historian
- Aryanization, in Nazism, the expulsion of "non-Aryans"
- Arya Vaisya (disambiguation), several castes
- Aryn (disambiguation)
- Ayran, a yoghurt-based drink