Dan

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Dan or DAN may refer to:

People

  • Dan (name), including a list of people with the name
    • Dan (king), several kings of Denmark
  • Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa
    • Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
  • Dan (son of Jacob), one of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel in the Bible
    • Tribe of Dan, one of the 12 tribes of Israel descended from Dan
  • Crown Prince Dan, prince of Yan in ancient China

Places

  • 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, an unincorporated community in the United States
  • Dan River (disambiguation)
  • Danzhou, formerly Dan County, China
  • Gush Dan, the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv in Israel

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
  • Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), a defunct, controversial program of the Autism Research Institute
  • Direct Action Network (DAN), a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
  • Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN), a former disability rights campaign in the UK
  • Divers Alert Network (DAN), a non-profit organization for Scuba diving

Science

  • daN (decanewton), unit of force—see newton
  • DAN (protein), a family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
  • Dorsal attention network (DAN), a sensory orienting system in the brain
  • Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN), a scientific instrument on board the Curiosity rover

Other

  • Dan, a 1914 film starring Lois Meredith
  • Dan (Chinese opera), a female role in Chinese opera
  • Dan (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
  • Dan (newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Montenegro
  • Dan (rank) in Japanese, Chinese and Korean martial arts, go, and shogi
  • English corruption of the title Dominus
  • Do Anything Now (DAN), a jailbreak for ChatGPT

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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