Dan

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'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
** Danel, the hero figure of Ugarit who might have inspired stories of the biblical figure
* 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
*Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), a defunct, controversial program of the Autism Research Institute
* Direct Action Network, a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
* Disabled People's Direct Action Network, a former disability rights campaign in the UK
* Divers Alert Network, a non-profit organization for Scuba diving

Science

* daN (decanewton), unit of force—see newton
* DAN (protein), a family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
* Dorsal attention network, a sensory orienting system in the brain
* Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, a scientific instrument on board the ''Curiosity'' rover

Other

* Dàn or ''Dangbé'', a snake deity in the Kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin)
* ''Dan'', a 1914 film starring Lois Meredith
* Dan (Chinese opera), a female role in Chinese opera
* Dan (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
* ''Dan'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Montenegro
* Dan (rank) in Japanese, Chinese and Korean martial arts, go, and shogi
* "Dan", a song by Owen Riegling from the 2024 album '' Bruce County (From the Beginning)''
* English corruption of the title Dominus
* Do Anything Now (DAN), a jailbreak for ChatGPT
* Dan (volume), a traditional Chinese measure unit of volume
* Dan (weight), a traditional Chinese measure unit of weight

See also

* List of people with given name Dan
* Daniel (disambiguation)
* Danny (disambiguation)
* Dane

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