Gran may refer to:

People

Grandmother Grandparents, individually known as grandmother and grandfather, or Grandma and Grandpa, are the parents of a person's father or mother – paternal or maternal. Every sexually reproducing living organism who is not a genetic chimera has a maxi ...

, affectionately known as "gran" * Gran (name)

Places

* Gran, the historical German name for

Esztergom Esztergom (; ; or ; , known by Names of European cities in different languages: E–H#E, alternative names) is a city with county rights in northern Hungary, northwest of the capital Budapest. It lies in Komárom-Esztergom County, on the righ ...

, a city and the primatial metropolitan see of Hungary *

Gran, Norway is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Hadeland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Jaren. Othe ...

, a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway * Gran (village), a village in Gran Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway * Grän, a municipality in the state of Tyrol, Austria * Gran (island), an island in Nordanstig Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden

Spanish language

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

Gran means "Great" or "Greater", and may refer to: *

Gran Canaria Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, a Spain, Spanish archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa. the island had a population of that constitut ...

, an island of the Canary Islands, Spain *

Gran Colombia Gran Colombia (, "Great Colombia"), also known as Greater Colombia and officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish language, Spanish: ''República de Colombia''), was a state that encompassed much of northern South America and parts of Central ...

, a modern name for a former South American country called Colombia *

Gran Sabana La Gran Sabana (, ) is a region in southeastern Venezuela, part of the Guianan savanna ecoregion. The savanna spreads into the regions of the Guiana Shield, Guiana Highlands and south-east into Bolívar, Venezuela, Bolívar State, extending fu ...

, a natural region in Venezuela *

Gran Chaco The Gran Chaco or simply Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland tropical dry broadleaf forest natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion o ...

, a South American lowland natural region *

Gran Asunción Greater Asunción () is the metropolitan area of the capital city of Paraguay, Asunción. It consists of twenty cities: Asunción itself, the capital, and the surrounding cities in Central Department. One in three Paraguayans live in this metrop ...

(Greater Asunción), Paraguay * Gran Chimú Province, a province of La Libertad Region of Peru * Gran Torre Santiago, a skyscraper in Santiago, Chile *

Big Brother (franchise) ''Big Brother'' is a reality competition television franchise created by John de Mol Jr., first broadcast in the Netherlands in 1999 and subsequently syndicated internationally. The show features contestants called "housemates" or "HouseGuests" ...

, called "Gran Hermano" in Hispanic countries * La Gran Cruzada, a professional Mexican wrestling event *

Gran Campo Nevado The Gran Campo Nevado is a small ice field located in the southern portion of the Muñoz Gamero Peninsula, in Chile. It covers an area of approximately and feeds 19 outlet glaciers, the largest of which is long. See also * Monte Burney *Riesco ...

, a small ice field in Chile *

Gran Pajatén Gran Pajatén is an archaeological site located in the Andes, Andean cloud forests of Peru, on the border of the La Libertad region and the San Martín region, between the Marañón River, Marañon and Huallaga rivers. The archaeological site lie ...

, an archaeological site located in the Andean cloud forests of Peru

Other

* Gran Brigitte, another name for

Maman Brigitte Maman Brigitte ( English: ''Mother Brigitte'') sometimes also written as Manman Brigitte and also known by Gran Brigitte, Grann Brigitte, Manman, Manman Brigit, and Maman Brijit is a death loa (or ''lwa'') and the consort of Baron Samedi in Ha ...

* Widely used, predominantly British, abbreviation for

grandmother Grandparents, individually known as grandmother and grandfather, or Grandma and Grandpa, are the parents of a person's father or mother – paternal or maternal. Every sexually reproducing living organism who is not a genetic chimera has a maxi ...

* ''Gran'' (TV series), a 1983 children's animation series *

Gran plot A Gran plot (also known as Gran titration or the Gran method) is a common means of standardizing a titrate or titrant by estimating the ''equivalence volume'' or '' end point'' in a strong acid-strong base titration Titration (also known as ...

, a graphing technique in analytical chemistry developed by Gustav Gran * Ruth "Gran" Sims, a character in the Australian mockumentary series ''

Angry Boys ''Angry Boys'' is an Australian television mockumentary sitcom miniseries written by and starring Chris Lilley, continuing the mockumentary style of his previous series. In ''Angry Boys'', Lilley plays multiple characters: S.mouse, an Americ ...

'' * Gran (''Star Wars''), a fictional alien species in the ''Star Wars'' franchise *

KM-8 Gran KM-8 Gran, (КМ-8 "Грань" - ''"Borderline"''), is a Russian 120mm guided mortar weapon system. It uses the Malakhit semi-active laser guidance fire control system to perform top attacks, and is able to attack moving and stationary targ ...