Aran may refer to:

Places

Azerbaijan

Villages and municipalities: *

Aran, Aghjabadi Aran (known as Kuybishev until 1999) is a village and municipality in the Aghjabadi Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,655. History The village used to be named Kuybışev (English transliteration: Kuybishev) in honor of Valerian Kuy ...

* Aran, Lerik * Aran, Shaki * Aran, Tovuz * Aran, Yevlakh

Iran

* Aran, Alborz, a village in Alborz Province * Aran, Nain, a village in Isfahan Province * Aran, Kermanshah, a village in Kermanshah Province * Aran, former name of the city of Rezvanshahr, Isfahan * Aran, former name of Bileh Savar in Ardabil Province

Russia

* Aran, village in

Dagestan Dagestan ( ; ; ), officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a part of the North Caucasian Fede ...

Elsewhere

Aran Fawddwy Aran Fawddwy is a mountain in southern Snowdonia, Wales, United Kingdom. It is the highest point (List of counties of England and Wales in 1964 by highest point, county top) of the historic county of Merionethshire (for local government ...

, mountain in Wales, United Kingdom **

Aran Benllyn Aran Benllyn is a subsidiary summit of Aran Fawddwy in southern Snowdonia, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom. It is the second highest peak in the Aran mountain range. It rises from the south shore of Bala Lake, and tops the northern point on ...

, subsidiary summit * Aran (river), in France *

Aran Islands The Aran Islands ( ; , ) or The Arans ( ) are a group of three islands at the mouth of Galway Bay, off the west coast of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, with a total area around . They constitute the historic barony (Ireland), barony of Aran in ...

, a group of islands across the mouth of Galway Bay, Ireland *

Arranmore ''Árainn Mhór'' (English language, English name: Arranmore) is an island off the west coast of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern Provinces of Ireland, province in Ireland. Arranmore is the largest inhabited island of County Donegal, wit ...

, also known as Aran Island, off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland *

Val d'Aran Aran (; ; ) (often known as the Aran Valley, or Val d'Aran in Aranese Occitan; in other forms of Occitan: ''Vath d'Aran'' or ''Vau d'Aran'', in Catalan: ''Vall d'Aran'', in Spanish: ''Valle de Arán'') is an autonomous administrative entity (form ...

, commonly shortened to Aran, an autonomous region of Catalonia * Aran Island (disambiguation), several islands *

Isle of Arran The Isle of Arran (; ) or simply Arran is an island off the west coast of Scotland. It is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh-largest Scottish island, at . Counties of Scotland, Historically part of Buteshire, it is in the ...

, Scotland

People

* Aran Bell, American ballet dancer * Aran Embleton (born 1981), English female international footballer * Aran Fox (born 1988), English ice hockey goaltender *

Aran Hakutora is a Russian people, Russian former sumo wrestler. He began his professional career in January 2007 and made the top division in a record eleven tournaments. The highest rank he reached was ''sekiwake''. He was runner-up in consecutive tournament ...

(born 1984), Russian sumo wrestler * Aran Jones, chief executive of Cymuned, a Welsh pressure group * Aran Tharp (born 1977), New York filmmaker * Aran Zalewski (born 1991), Australian field hockey player * François-Amilcar Aran (1817–1861), French physician

Fictional characters

Samus Aran is the protagonist of the video game series ''Metroid'' by Nintendo. She was created by the Japanese video game designer Makoto Kano (video game designer), Makoto Kano and introduced in the first ''Metroid (video game), Metroid'' (1986) for th ...

, the protagonist of Nintendo's ''Metroid'' video game series *

Aran Linvail ''Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'' is a role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Interplay Entertainment. It is the sequel to 1998's ''Baldur's Gate (video game), Baldur's Gate'' and was released for Microsoft Windows, Wi ...

, in the role-playing game ''Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'' *

Aran Ryan is a series of boxing video games created by Genyo Takeda and Makoto Wada, and published by Nintendo. The main protagonist and player character of the series is Little Mac, a short boxer from the Bronx who climbs the ranks of the fictional Wo ...

, in the Nintendo-produced ''Punch-Out!!'' game series

Other uses

* Aran or

Haran Haran or Aran ( ''Hārān'') is a man in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. He was a son of Terah, brother of Abraham, and father of son Lot and daughters Milcah and Iscah. He died in Ur of the Chaldees. Through Lot, Haran was the ance ...

, brother of Abraham in the Bible *

Aran sweater The Aran jumper ( Irish: ''Geansaí Árann''), also called a fisherman's jumper or a gansey, is a style of jumper that takes its name from the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. A traditional Aran Jumper usually is off-white in colou ...

, a sweater manufactured in Ireland * , a former vessel of the Swedish Navy * ''Aran'' (film), a 2006 film in the Tamil language * , ISO 15294 code for the

Nastaliq ''Nastaliq'' (; ; ), also Romanization of Persian, romanized as ''Nastaʿlīq'' or ''Nastaleeq'' (), is one of the main book hand, calligraphic hands used to write Arabic script and is used for some Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Persi ...

(Persian and Urdu) script * Left Recomposition or ARAN, a political party in Greece