Dan or DAN may refer to:
People
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Dan (name)
Dan is a given name and surname in various cultures.
Given name
Origins as a given name
Dan is an old Scandinavian given name with several disputed origins. The most likely being that it originated from the Old Norse nam for Danes. This i ...
, including a list of people with the name
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Dan (king), several kings of Denmark
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Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa
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Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
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Dan (son of Jacob), one of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel in the Bible
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Tribe of Dan, one of the 12 tribes of Israel descended from Dan
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Crown Prince Dan, prince of Yan in ancient China
Places
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Dan (ancient city), the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan
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Dan, Israel, a kibbutz
* Dan, subdistrict of
Kap Choeng District, Thailand
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Dan, West Virginia
Dan is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers cla ...
, an unincorporated community in the United States
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Dan River (disambiguation) Dan River may refer to:
* Dan River
* Dan River (China)
* Dan River (Israel)
Other
* Little Dan River
* Browns Dan River
* Dan Hole River
The Dan Hole River is a river in the town of Ossipee in eastern New Hampshire in the United States. It ...
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Danzhou, formerly Dan County, China
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Gush Dan, the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv in Israel
Organizations
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Dan-Air, a defunct airline in the United Kingdom
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Dan Bus Company, a public transport company in Israel
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Dan Hotels, a hotel chain in Israel
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Dan the Tire Man
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'Ivoir ...
, a tire company in the United States
*Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), a defunct, controversial program of the
Autism Research Institute
The Autism Research Institute (ARI) is an organization that created a controversial program, Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), in 1995. ARI was founded in 1967 by Bernard Rimland.
Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!)
DAN! advocated for alternative medicine, alt ...
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Direct Action Network
Direct Action Network (DAN) was a North American confederation of anti-corporate, anti-authoritarian and anarchist affinity groups, collectives, and organizations. It grew out of the Seattle chapter which had been formed to coordinate the nonviol ...
(DAN), a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
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Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN), a former disability rights campaign in the UK
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Divers Alert Network
Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a group of not-for-profit organizations dedicated to improving diving safety for all divers. It was founded in Durham, North Carolina, United States, in 1980 at Duke University providing 24/7 telephonic hot-line div ...
(DAN), a non-profit organization for Scuba diving
Science
* daN (decanewton), unit of force—see newton (unit), 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), ''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 (title), Dominus
See also
* Daniel (disambiguation)
* Danny (disambiguation)
* List of people named Dan, people with the given name Dan
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