Bran (disambiguation)

Bran is the hard outer layer of cereal grains.

Bran may also refer to:

Places

• Bran, Brașov, a commune in Brașov County, Romania
  • Bran Castle, a medieval German castle in Romania, wrongly associated with Vlad Țepeş ("Dracula")
• Bran, a village in Golăiești Commune, Iași County, Romania
• Bran, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département in France
• Bran (Oroso), a place in the parish of Os Ánxeles in the Galician council of Oroso, Spain
• Castell Dinas Brân, a castle in Llangollen, Wales

People

• Bran Mutimirović, Serbian prince
• Bran Drobnjak, founder of the Drobnjaci clan
• Bran Ardchenn, king of Leinster
• Bran Becc mac Murchado, king of Leinster
• Bran Ferren, American designer and inventor
• Guto Nyth Brân, legendary Welsh athlete

Characters

• Brân the Blessed, a character in Welsh mythology
• Bran Mak Morn, the last King of the Picts in Robert E. Howard's fiction
• Bran mac Febail, the protagonist of Immram Brain (The Voyage of Bran), a tale from Irish mythology
• Bran Stark, a character from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Other

• Broadband Radio Access Network (BRAN), a European Telecommunications Standards Institute project involving low-cost, high-capacity radio links
• A nickname (abbreviation) for "Brandon"
• Accademia della Crusca, also known as "The Bran"; crusca is Italian for bran
• Bran (exoplanet) (HAT-P-36b), a hot Jupiter-type exoplanet orbiting Tuiren (HAT-P-36)

See also

• List of Celtic deities: Brân, Celtic for “Raven”, Celtic god
• Slavic names, see Bron, Bran: to protect, to defend
• Related Romanian place-names
  • Brănești (disambiguation)
  • Braniște (disambiguation)
  • Braniștea (disambiguation)
• Branle, Baroque dance (Spanish form)