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Dan or DAN may refer to:


People

* Dan (name), including a list of people with the name **
Dan (king) Dan (or Halfdan) is the name of one or more legendary earliest kings of the Danes and Denmark, mentioned in medieval Scandinavian texts. The ''Lejre Chronicle'' The ''Chronicle of Lejre'' (''Chronicon Lethrense'') written about 1170 introduces a ...
, 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 *Dan the Tire Man, a tire company in the United States *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 (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 {{disambiguation, geo