Moran may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

Moran Bluff Moran Bluff is a steep coastal bluff close west of Mathewson Point on the north side of Shepard Island, along the edge of Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica. The feature was visited by personnel of (Captain Edwin A. McDonald) on February 4, 1962. The n ...

, Marie Byrd Land *

Moran Buttress Moran Buttress () is a steep bluff south of Koopman Peak, rising over and forming a major projection between Davisville Glacier and Quonset Glacier along the north wall of the Wisconsin Range in Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geo ...

, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Glacier, Alexander Island

Asia

Moran Town Moran Town is a census town in Dibrugarh district in the Indian state of Assam. Moran is an important industrial town in India. It is a major oil field and a major tea-producing area. Etymology The name "Moran" is actually the shortened form o ...

, Assam, India *

Moran, Israel Moran ( he, מוֹרָן, ''lit.'' Viburnum) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Lower Galilee near Karmiel, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Kibbutz Moran was founded in ...

, a kibbutz *

Moran Hill Moranbong or Moran Hill (literally "PeonyHill", often "PeonyPeak") forms a park located in central Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Its summit is the location of the Pyongyang TV Tower. There are multiple monumental structures located o ...

, North Korea * Moran Station, a station of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway in Seongnam, South Korea

North America

* Moran, British Columbia, Canada, a railway point **

Moran Canyon (British Columbia) Moran Canyon may refer to: * Moran Canyon (British Columbia), a major canyon and proposed damsite on the Fraser River, British Columbia, located at Moran, British Columbia. *Moran Canyon (Wyoming) :''This is about the canyon in Wyoming, United Sta ...

, a natural feature on the Fraser River *

Moran, Indiana Moran is an unincorporated community in Owen Township, Clinton County, Indiana. Originally a station on the Vandalia Railroad, Moran was laid out by Noah L. Bunnell in October, 1873, and named for an official of the railroad. The official, who ...

, an unincorporated town *

Moran, Kansas Moran is a city in Allen County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 466. History Moran had its start in the year 1881 by the building of the Saint Louis, Fort Scott, and Wichita Railroad (later known ...

, a city *

Moran, Ohio Moran is a place in Portage County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is located in the western edge of Streetsboro, near its border with Hudson along Aurora Hudson Road. History Moran had its start on a stagecoach line and was also known as Jesse, ...

, a neighborhood of Streetsboro, Ohio *

Moran, Texas Moran is a city in southeast Shackelford County, Texas, United States. The population was 270 at the 2010 census. Geography Moran is located at (32.545945, –99.166275). The town is situated at the intersection of Texas State Highway 6 and F ...

, a city *

Moran, Virginia Moran is an unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States. Moran is in a fairly remote section of the Virginia countryside and was one time a bustling area called "Beck" with a rural post office. At that time the villag ...

, an unincorporated community *

Moran, Wyoming Moran (also Moran Junction) is an unincorporated village in south central Teton County, Wyoming, United States: as the community has had two different names, the Board on Geographic Names officially ruled in favor of "Moran" in 1970. It lies in ...

, an unincorporated community *

Moran Canyon (Wyoming) :''This is about the canyon in Wyoming, United States. For the canyon on the Fraser River, in British Columbia, Canada, see Moran, British Columbia.'' Moran Canyon is located in Grand Teton National Park, in the U. S. state of Wyoming. The canyo ...

Moran Creek (Minnesota) Moran Creek is a stream in Todd County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Moran Creek bears the name of a lumberman. See also *List of rivers of Minnesota Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow for . The Mississipp ...

* Moran Creek (Hay Creek tributary), Montana *

Moran Formation The Moran Formation is a geologic formation in Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period millio ...

, Texas, a geologic formation *

Moran Lake Moran Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island north of the east end of Great Central Lake Great Central Lake is a lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is located north of Sproat Lake and to the northwest of the city of Por ...

, British Columbia, Canada *

Moran River The Moran River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed December 19, 2011 river on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. It begins at the outlet of Chain Lake ...

, Michigan *

Moran State Park Moran State Park is a public recreation area on Orcas Island in Puget Sound's San Juan Islands in the state of Washington, United States. The state park encompasses over 5,000 acres of various terrain including forests, wetlands, bogs, hills, and ...

, Washington *

Moran Township, Michigan Moran Township is a civil township of Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 994 at the 2010 census. Communities * Brevort is an unincorporated community in the township on U.S. Route 2 at , approximately 20 miles nort ...

Moran Township, Richland County, North Dakota Moran may refer to: Places Antarctica * Moran Bluff, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Buttress, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Glacier, Alexander Island Asia * Moran Town, Assam, India * Moran, Israel, a kibbutz * Moran Hill, North Korea * Moran Station, a sta ...

Richland County, North Dakota Richland County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,529. Its county seat is Wahpeton. Richland County is part of the Wahpeton, ND– MN Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also incl ...

Moran Township, Todd County, Minnesota Moran Township is a township in Todd County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 515 at the 2000 census. Moran Township was organized in 1877, and named after Moran Creek. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the tow ...

Mount Moran Mount Moran () is a mountain in Grand Teton National Park of western Wyoming, USA. The mountain is named for Thomas Moran, an American western frontier landscape artist. Mount Moran dominates the northern section of the Teton Range rising above ...

, Wyoming

South America

Morán Municipality The Morán Municipality is one of the nine Municipalities of Venezuela, municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Lara (state), Lara and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of V ...

, Venezuela

Elsewhere

10372 Moran 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

, an asteroid

Persons with the name

Moran (given name) Moran is a unisex given name. In Hebrew it refers to the viburnum plant. * Moran Atias (born 1981), Israeli actress * Moran Doc Boggs (1898-1971), American singer, songwriter and banjo player * Moran Buzovski (born 1992), Israeli rhythmic gymnast ...

, a unisex given name *

Moran (surname) Moran ( ga, Ó Móráin) is a modern Irish surname and derived from membership of a medieval dynastic sept. The name means a descendant of ''Mórán''. “Mor” in Gaelic translates as big or great and “an” as the prefix the. Morans were ...

, an Irish surname *

Moran (Syriac) Mar, mar or MAR may refer to: Culture * Mar (title), or Mor, an honorific in Syriac * Earl of Mar, an earldom in Scotland * Mar., an abbreviation for March, the third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Biblical abbreviation for the ...

, Syriac title for Jesus Christ * Morán, a Spanish surname

Groups of people

Moran (Maasai) The Maasai (; sw, Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They are among the best-known local populations internationally due to their residence near the many game parks of t ...

or Il-murran, warriors among the Maasai of Kenya * Moran people, an ethnic group of Assam

Fictional characters

* Moran, the title character of the 1922 American film ''

Moran of the Lady Letty ''Moran of the Lady Letty'' is a 1922 American silent adventure drama film directed by George Melford and stars Rudolph Valentino and Dorothy Dalton. Melford and Valentino had previously worked together on the box office hit '' The Sheik'', in ...

'' * Moran, a female Irish Quidditch player in ''

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fourth novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. It follows Harry Potter, a wizard in his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and W ...

'' * Gia Moran, a female character in '' Power Rangers Megaforce'' * Michael Moran, the title character of the 1928 American film ''

Moran of the Marines ''Moran of the Marines'' is a lost 1928 American comedy silent film directed by Frank R. Strayer and written by Ray Harris, Agnes Brand Leahy, George Marion Jr., Sam Mintz and Linton Wells. The film stars Richard Dix, Ruth Elder, Roscoe Karns, ...

'' * Sebastian Moran, an enemy of

Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...

Other uses

MORAN Moran may refer to: Places Antarctica * Moran Bluff, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Buttress, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Glacier, Alexander Island Asia * Moran Town, Assam, India * Moran, Israel, a kibbutz * Moran Hill, North Korea * Moran Station, a s ...

, an acronym for Multi-Operator Radio Access Network *

Baron Moran Baron Moran, of Manton in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 March 1943 for the physician Charles Wilson (10 November 1882 – 12 April 1977). He is chiefly remembered as Winston Churc ...

, British peerage title *

Kenyan Morans Kenya national basketball team is the national men basketball team in Kenya. It is operated by the Kenya Basketball Federation (KBF). Kenya hosted the 1993 FIBA Africa Championship where the team beat Algeria by a 80-50 blowout and progress ...

, nickname of Kenya's national basketball team *

Moran Building The Moran Building is an historic Second Empire style building, located at 501-509 G Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United S ...

, Washington, DC, on the National Register of Historic Places *

Moran Dam Moran Dam, also called High Moran Dam or Moran Canyon Dam, was a 1950s proposal to dam the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). The structure was planned in the wake of devastating floods in a time of rapidly growing po ...

, a proposed dam on the Fraser River at Moran, British Columbia, Canada * Moran language, an extinct Tibeto-Burman language of India *

Moran Medal The Moran Medal in Statistical Sciences is awarded every two years by the Australian Academy of Science to recognise outstanding research by Australian scientists under 40 years of age in the fields of applied probability, biometrics, mathematic ...

in Statistical Sciences, awarded every two years by the Australian Academy of Science *

Moran Municipal Generation Station The Moran Municipal Generation Station is a former 30-megawatt power plant known for its architecture and innovation built in Burlington, Vermont from 1952 to 1955. It is now a derelict structure that will be redeveloped to encourage year-round u ...

, Burlington, Vermont, a power plant *

Moran Shipping Agencies Moran Shipping Agencies, Inc. is a U.S. based steamship agency company, with its corporate office in Providence, Rhode Island. Moran Shipping Agencies is the largest independently owned shipping agent in the U.S.; providing full agency attendance ...

, a U.S.-based steamship agency company *

Moran's Oyster Cottage Moran's Oyster Cottage is a seafood restaurant and pub located at The Weir, Kilcolgan, in County Galway, Ireland, close to the village of Clarinbridge, and ten miles south of Galway City. Known for its seafood, including oysters and smoked sal ...

, a seafood restaurant and pub in Kilcolgan, County Galway, Ireland