Ran
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Organizations
- Rainforest Action NetworkRainforest Action NetworkRainforest Action Network is an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, USA. The organization was founded by Randy "Hurricane" Hayes and Mike Roselle in 1985, with the financial help of Fund for Wild Nature....
- Russian Academy of SciencesRussian Academy of SciencesThe Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
(transliteration of its Russian acronym Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk) - The Royal Australian NavyRoyal Australian NavyThe Royal Australian Navy is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval Forces...
People
- Nissim of GeronaNissim of GeronaNissim ben Reuven of Girona, Catalonia was an influential talmudist and authority on Jewish law. He was one of the last of the great Spanish medieval talmudic scholars. He is also known as the RaN .-Biography:The Ran was born in Barcelona, Catalonia...
, Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven - Ran is a Hebrew male name: , homophone of רַן (sing), and related to the root רן, which means "gladness"
- Ran is a JapaneseJapanese peopleThe are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
female first name, which can mean "orchid" (JP: 蘭 Rān) or "indigoIndigoIndigo is a color named after the purple dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and related species. The color is placed on the electromagnetic spectrum between about 420 and 450 nm in wavelength, placing it between blue and violet...
" (i.e. the color) (JP: 藍 Rān); depending on the character. In some cases it means "water lily" - Ran ItoRan Itois a Japanese actress and previous member of the 1970s idol group Candies. She is married to Mizutani Yutaka, a famous actor in Japan. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival for Disciples of Hippocrates.-Filmography:...
, a member of the 1970s Japanese pop idol group, Candies
Film and television
- Ran (film)Ran (film)is a 1985 Japanese-French jidaigeki film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film starred Tatsuya Nakadai as Hidetora Ichimonji, an aging Sengoku-era warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons. It also stars Mieko Harada as the wife of Ichimonji's eldest son...
, a 1985 film directed by Akira Kurosawa - RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series)RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series)RAN is an Australian television program , filmed entirely on Masig Island in the tropical Torres Strait north of the Cape York Peninsula, the northern-most part of Australia , and the border with Papua New Guinea.This is an important series to Torres Strait Islanders, but also to the...
, 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!Gals!Gals! is a shōjo manga written and illustrated by Mihona Fujii. The manga was serialized in Ribon and published in the U.S. by CMX.An anime adaptation, , aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between 2001 and 2003, running a length of 52 episodes...
- Ran Uzaki, main character from the Japanese television series Juken Sentai Gekiranger
- Ran, a popular character from the "Megaman" sprite comic, Bob and GeorgeBob and GeorgeBob and George was a sprite-based webcomic which parodied the fictional universe of Mega Man. It is written by David Anez, a physics instructor who lives in the American Midwest. The comic first appeared on April 1, 2000 and ran until July 28, 2007...
- 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)Ran (biology)Ran is a small 25Kda protein that is involved in transport into and out of the cell nucleus during interphase and also involved in mitosis. It is a member of the Ras superfamily....
, a small GTPase that is involved in import and export within a cell nucleus as well as mitosis - Ran OnlineRan OnlineRAN Online is a free, 3D MMORPG. The concept is based around several schools competing for control. Developed by Min Communications of Korea, RAN Online has become one of the most played MMORPGs in Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines...
, an MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) - ran, in mathematics, an abbreviation of rangeRange (mathematics)In mathematics, the range of a function refers to either the codomain or the image of the function, depending upon usage. This ambiguity is illustrated by the function f that maps real numbers to real numbers with f = x^2. Some books say that range of this function is its codomain, the set of all...
- A tribe in Arunachal PradeshArunachal PradeshArunachal Pradesh is a state of India, located in the far northeast. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south, and shares international borders with Burma in the east, Bhutan in the west, and the People's Republic of China in the north. The majority of the territory is claimed by...
region of India - RánRánIn Norse mythology, Rán is a sea goddess. According to Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, in his retelling of the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna, she is married to Ægir and they have nine daughters together...
, an ancient Norse goddess