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 Moran is a railway point on the BC Rail line north of Pavilion, British Columbia. The location, which is high on the side of the stretch of the Fraser Canyon known as Moran Canyon, is notable as the site of the proposed Moran Dam Moran Dam, also ...

, Canada, a railway point ** Moran Canyon (British Columbia), a natural feature on the Fraser River * Moran, Indiana, 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, a city * Moran, Virginia, 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) *

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) Moran Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, ...

, Montana * Moran Formation, 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 P ...

, 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,

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 *

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), an Irish surname * Moran (Syriac), 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 The Moran are an ethnic group found in the northeast Indian state of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. They are mainly concentrated in the districts of Upper Assam and adjoining districts of Arunachal Pradesh. They are of Tibeto-Burman origin and bel ...

, 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 ''Power Rangers Megaforce'' is the twentieth season of the long-running television series ''Power Rangers''. The show is produced by SCG Power Rangers and began airing on Nickelodeon on February 2, 2013. The show was part of the ''Power Rangers ...

'' * 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 Colonel Sebastian Moran is a fictional character in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. An enemy of Sherlock Holmes, he first appears in the 1903 short story "The Adventure of the Empty House". Holmes once described him as "the second most ...

, 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, British peerage title * Kenyan Morans, nickname of Kenya's national basketball team * Moran Building, 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 Moran (''Morān'') is an extinct Boro-Garo language which was spoken in Assam in Northeast India (mostly Tinsukia district) and related to Dimasa language. The census returned 78 speakers in 1901, 24 in 1911 and none in 1931, and the only sourc ...

, an extinct Tibeto-Burman language of India * Moran Medal in Statistical Sciences, awarded every two years by the Australian Academy of Science * Moran Municipal Generation Station, 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 sa ...

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