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Places
- The WitwatersrandWitwatersrandThe Witwatersrand is a low, sedimentary range of hills, at an elevation of 1700–1800 metres above sea-level, which runs in an east-west direction through Gauteng in South Africa. The word in Afrikaans means "the ridge of white waters". Geologically it is complex, but the principal formations...
, ridge that runs through Gauteng, South Africa, which includes the East Rand and West RandWest RandThe West Rand is the name of the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. This area became settled by Europeans after a gold-bearing reef discovered in 1886 and sparked the gold rush that gave rise to the establishment of...
areas - Rand, New South WalesRand, New South WalesRand is a town in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in the Urana Shire Local Government Area. At the 2006 census, Rand had a population of 210....
, small town in Australia - Rand, LincolnshireRand, LincolnshireRand is a small village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, approximately north east of the city of Lincoln and approximately west of Wragby, just off the A158 road from Lincoln to Skegness in the East Midlands region. The nearest large town is Market Rasen,...
, small village in Lincolnshire, England - Rand, CaliforniaRand, CaliforniaRand is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California.It is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad north-northwest of Randsburg, at an elevation of 2690 feet in the Mojave Desert....
, community in Kern County, California - Rand, ColoradoRand, ColoradoRand is an unincorporated town and a U.S. Post Office established in 1881 in Jackson County, Colorado. It is a ranching community at the southern end of North Park south of Walden consisting of several homes and businesses, a post office, and ranching facilities...
, small unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado - The "Rand Mining District", area in Kern County, CaliforniaKern County, CaliforniaSpreading across the southern end of the California Central Valley, Kern County is the fifth-largest county by population in California. Its economy is heavily linked to agriculture and to petroleum extraction, and there is a strong aviation and space presence. Politically, it has generally...
- Randsburg, CaliforniaRandsburg, CaliforniaRandsburg is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Randsburg is located south of Ridgecrest, at an elevation of 3504 feet . The population was 69 at the 2010 census, down from 77 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Randsburg is located at . It is on the west side of U.S...
People
- Ayn RandAyn RandAyn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism....
, Russian-American philosopher and author - Austin L. RandAustin L. RandAustin Loomer Rand was a Canadian zoologist.He was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia in 1905 and grew up in nearby Wolfville, where he was mentored by the noted local ornithologist Robie W. Tufts...
, Canadian zoologist - Isaac RandIsaac RandIsaac Rand was an English botanist and apothecary, who was a lecturer and director at the Chelsea Physic Garden.-Life:Isaac was probably son of James Rand, who in 1674 agreed, with thirteen other members of the Society of Apothecaries, to build a wall round the Chelsea Botanical Garden...
(d. 1743), English botanist. - Ivan RandIvan RandIvan Cleveland Rand, CC was a Canadian lawyer, politician, academic, and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada....
, Supreme Court of Canada justice who introduced the "Rand formula" - James Rand, Jr.James Rand, Jr.James Henry Rand, Jr. was an American industrialist who revolutionized the business record industry. He founded American Kardex, an office equipment and office supplies firm which later merged with his father's company, the Rand Ledger Corporation...
, American industrialist and president of the Remington Rand company - Mary RandMary RandMary Denise Rand, MBE, is a former English track-and-field athlete. She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, becoming the first-ever British female to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field event.-Early life:She is the daughter of...
, British athlete and Olympic champion - Paul RandPaul RandPaul Rand Paul Rand Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, (August 15, 1914 — November 26, 1996) was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs’ NeXT...
, American graphic designer - Rand MillerRand MillerRand Miller co-founded Cyan with brother Robyn Miller and became famous from the unexpected success of their computer game Myst, which remained the number one-selling game for the remainder of the 1990s...
, co-creater of the computer game Myst - Rand PaulRand PaulRandal Howard "Rand" Paul is the junior United States Senator for Kentucky. He is a member of the Republican Party. A member of the Tea Party movement, he describes himself as a "constitutional conservative" and a libertarian...
, United States senator from Kentucky - Rose RandRose RandRose Rand A logician and a Philosopher. A member of the Vienna Circle.- Life and work :Rand was born in Lemberg . After her family moved to Austria she studied at the Polish Gymnasium in Vienna. In 1924 she enrolled in Vienna University, her teachers included Heinrich Gomperz, Moritz Schlick,...
, Logician and philosopher, member of the Vienna Circle - Sally RandSally RandSally Rand was a burlesque dancer and actress, most noted for her ostrich feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance. She also performed under the name Billie Beck.-Early life and career:...
, American actress and dancer - Shuli RandShuli RandShalom "Shuli" Rand is an Israeli film actor, writer, and singer. He is a Haredi Jew and is best known in the English-speaking world for his acting his role as the protagonist in Ushpizin as well as being the writer of the movie.-Personal history:Rand was born Shalom Rand and raised in Bnei...
and Michal Batsheva Rand, husband and wife, Israeli actors - William H. Rand, founder of the Rand McNallyRand McNallyRand McNally is an American publisher of maps, atlases, textbooks, and globes for travel, reference, commercial, and educational uses. It also provides online consumer street maps and directions, as well as commercial transportation routing software and mileage data...
company
Fictional characters
- Rand al'ThorRand al'ThorRand al'Thor, also known as the Dragon Reborn, is the fictional main character and protagonist of The Wheel of Time, a series of fantasy novels by Robert Jordan.Rand al'Thor has many other titles within the series:...
, the main character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy fiction series - Rand (Robotech), a character from the fictional Third Robotech War
- Atton Rand, a character from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
- Janice RandJanice RandYeoman Janice Rand, played by Grace Lee Whitney, is a character in Star Trek: The Original Series. She subsequently appears in several Star Trek films and in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.-Depiction:...
, a character in the Star Trek universe - Iron Fist (comics) (Daniel Rand), a Marvel Comics character
- Ben Rand, a character from Being There (1979) performed by Melvyn Douglas
Companies and organizations
- The RANDRANDRAND Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by Douglas Aircraft Company. It is currently financed by the U.S. government and private endowment, corporations including the healthcare industry, universities...
Corporation, an American think tank - The Ayn Rand InstituteAyn Rand InstituteThe Ayn Rand Institute: The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism is a 501 nonprofit think tank in Irvine, California that promotes Ayn Rand's philosophy, called Objectivism. It was established in 1985, three years after Rand's death, by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's legal heir...
, an American think tank - Remington RandRemington RandRemington Rand was an early American business machines manufacturer, best known originally as a typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation as the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mainframe computers but with antecedents in Remington Arms in the early nineteenth century. For a time, the...
, an American computer firm and general manufacturer - Sperry Rand, an American equipment and electronics company
- Rand RefineryRand RefineryRand Refinery Limited is the largest single-site gold refining and smelting complex in the world.It was established in 1920 in Germiston, South Africa, by the Chamber of Mines of South Africa to refine all the gold produced by South Africa's gold mines. Since its inception it has refined in excess...
, the world’s largest gold refinery - Ingersoll-Rand, a diversified American industrial firm
- Rand McNallyRand McNallyRand McNally is an American publisher of maps, atlases, textbooks, and globes for travel, reference, commercial, and educational uses. It also provides online consumer street maps and directions, as well as commercial transportation routing software and mileage data...
, an American map publisher and printer
Abbreviations
- rand, any of a number of pseudorandom number generatorPseudorandom number generatorA pseudorandom number generator , also known as a deterministic random bit generator , is an algorithm for generating a sequence of numbers that approximates the properties of random numbers...
functions in various programming languages - Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing, a type of licensing used during a standardisation process
Other uses
- South African randSouth African randThe rand is the currency of South Africa. It takes its name from the Witwatersrand , the ridge upon which Johannesburg is built and where most of South Africa's gold deposits were found. The rand has the symbol "R" and is subdivided into 100 cents, symbol "c"...
, the national currency of South Africa (abbreviation: R, ISO-4217-Code: ZAR). The Rand is also widely accepted as currency in Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe - Rand indexRand indexThe Rand index or Rand measure in statistics, and in particular in data clustering, is a measure of the similarity between two data clusterings...
, a technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters - Rand formulaRand formulaIn Canadian labour law, the Rand formula is a workplace situation where the payment of trade union dues is mandatory regardless of the worker's union status...
, a formula in Canadian labour law
See also
- KrugerrandKrugerrandThe Krugerrand is a South African gold coin, first minted in 1967 to help market South African gold. The coin, produced by the South African Mint, proved popular and by 1980 the Krugerrand accounted for 90% of the gold coin market. The name itself is a compound of Kruger and rand, the South...
, a South African gold coin - RandlordRandlordRandlord is a term used to denote the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase from the 1870s up to World War I....
, a term used to denote the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase