Dan

Dan is an old Scandinavian given name with disputed meaning. Dan is also a Hebrew given name, after Dan, the fifth son of Jacob with Bilhah and founder of the Israelite Tribe of Dan. It is also a given name or a nickname for people named Daniel.

Dan, or the acronym DAN may refer to the following:

People

Dan (king), several kings of Denmark
Crown Prince Dan, prince of Yan in ancient China
Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa
Dan Lacksman, Belgian musician
DJ Dan, electronic music artist
Dan Froyliche, Israeli Olympic sport sailor
Dan Howell, video blogger and radio personality

People with the surname

Fyodor Dan (1871–1947), Russian Marxist revolutionary
Nicușor Dan (born 1969), Romanian activist and mathematician
Pavel Dan (1907-1937), Romanian short story writer
Sergiu Dan (1903-1976), Romanian novelist
Tomoyuki Dan (1963–2013), Japanese actor and voice actor

Places

Danzhou, formerly Dan County, China
Dan (ancient city), the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan
Dan, Israel, a kibbutz
Dan, subdistrict of Kap Choeng District, Thailand
Dan, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
Dan River (disambiguation)

Fictional characters

Dan Dare, a British science fiction comic hero
Desperate Dan, a regular in The Dandy since 1937
Dan Cahill, in The 39 Clues
Dan Hibiki, in the Street Fighter Alpha series
Dan Humphrey, in Gossip Girl
Dan Kuso, in the Bakugan anime series
Dan Moroboshi, alias of the title character in Ultra Seven, a 1967 Japanese TV series

Organizations

Dan-Air, a defunct airline in the United Kingdom
Dan Bus Company, a public transport company in Israel
Dan Hotels, a hotel chain in Israel
Direct Action Network, a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
Divers Alert Network, a non-profit organization for Scuba diving
Defeat Autism Now!, a defunct, controversial program of the Autism Research Institute

Other

Dan, a 1914 film starring Lois Meredith
Dan (Chinese opera), a female role in Beijing opera
DAN (protein), a family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
Dan (newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Montenegro
Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
Dan (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
English corruption of the title Dominus
Dan (rank) in Japanese, Chinese and Korean martial arts and Go
Dorsal attention network, a sensory orienting system in the brain
Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, a scientific instrument on board the Curiosity rover