Dan or DAN may refer to:

People

Dan (name) Dan is a name in various cultures. As a given name it is often short for Daniel (given name), Daniel. It is also a surname with multiple origins. Given name Origins as a given name Dan is an old Scandinavian given name with several dispute ...

, including a list of people with the name **

Dan (king) Dan (or Halfdan) is the name of one or more of the legendary earliest kings of the Danes and Denmark, as mentioned in medieval Scandinavian texts. The ''Lejre Chronicle'' The ''Chronicle of Lejre'' ('' Chronicon Lethrense''), written around 1170, ...

, several kings of Denmark *

Dan people The Dan or Mano-Dan are a Mande ethnic group from northwestern Ivory Coast and neighbouring Liberia. There are approximately members of the group and their largest settlement is Man, Ivory Coast. Neighboring peoples include the Krahn, Kpelle ...

, an ethnic group located in West Africa **

Dan language Dan is a Southern Mande language spoken primarily in Ivory Coast (~800,000 speakers) and Liberia (150,000–200,000 speakers). There is also a population of about 800 speakers in Guinea. Dan is a tonal language, with 9 to 11 contour and reg ...

, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia *

Dan (son of Jacob) According to the Book of Genesis, Dan (, ''Dān'', "judgment" or "he judged") was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Bilhah (Jacob's fifth son). His mother, Bilhah, was Rachel's handmaid, who becomes one of Jacob's concubines (Book of Gen ...

, one of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel in the Bible **

Tribe of Dan The Tribe of Dan (, "Judge") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, according to the Torah. According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe initially settled in the hill lands bordering Tribe of Ephraim, Ephraim and Tribe of Benjamin, Benjamin on the ...

, one of the 12 tribes of Israel descended from Dan **

Danel Danel (, Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎐𐎛𐎍 DNỈL, " El is judge"), father of Aqhat, was a culture hero who appears in an incomplete Ugaritic text of the fourteenth century BCE at Ugarit (now Ras Shamra), Syria. Tale of Aqhat The text in ''Corpus Ta ...

, the hero figure of

Ugarit Ugarit (; , ''ủgrt'' /ʾUgarītu/) was an ancient port city in northern Syria about 10 kilometers north of modern Latakia. At its height it ruled an area roughly equivalent to the modern Latakia Governorate. It was discovered by accident in 19 ...

who inspired stories of the biblical figure *

Crown Prince Dan Crown Prince Dan () was a crown prince of the State of Yan during the Warring States period of ancient China. He was also called Yan Dan (). He lived in the State of Qin as a hostage, but returned to Yan in 232 BC. He sent Jing Ke to assassinat ...

, prince of Yan in ancient China

Places

Dan (ancient city) Dan (), and older name Laish, is an ancient city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, described as the northernmost city of the Kingdom of Israel, and belonging to the tribe of Dan, its namesake. It was later the site of a royal sanctuary built by Jer ...

, the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan *

Dan, Israel Dan () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the north of the Hula Valley, at the foot of Mount Hermon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. As of it had a population of . History Dan was founded in 1939 by ...

, a kibbutz * Dan, subdistrict of Kap Choeng District, Thailand * Dan, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States *

Dan River (disambiguation) Dan River may refer to: * Dan River (Virginia) The Dan River flows in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia. It rises in Patrick County, Virginia, and crosses the state border into Stokes County, North Carolina. It then flows into ...

Danzhou Danzhou ( zh, t=儋州 , p=Dānzhōu) is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of the Chinese island province of Hainan. The administrative seat and urban center of Danzhou is Nada Town. Danzhou was upgraded from a county-level city into a ...

, formerly Dan County, China *

Gush Dan Gush Dan (, ) or Tel Aviv metropolitan area is a conurbation in Israel, located along the country's Mediterranean coastline. There is no single formal definition of Gush Dan, though the term is in frequent use by both governmental bodies and the ...

, the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv in Israel

Organizations

Dan-Air Dan-Air (legally ''Dan Air Services Limited'') was an airline based in the United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of London-based shipbroker, shipbroking firm Davies and Newman. It was started in 1953 with a single aircraft. Initially, i ...

, a defunct airline in the United Kingdom *

Dan Bus Company Dan Bus Company () is an Israeli bus company based in Tel Aviv. It operates local bus service in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area (Gush Dan). Dan operates 1,200 buses and has 2,400 employees. It transports approximately over 600,000 passengers d ...

, 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 Direct Action Network (DAN) was a North American confederation of anti-corporate, anti-authoritarian and anarchist affinity groups, collectives, and organizations. It grew out of the Seattle chapter which had been formed to coordinate the nonvio ...

(DAN), a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations *

Disabled People's Direct Action Network The Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN) is a disability rights activist organisation in England and Wales that campaigned for civil rights with high-profile street demonstrations involving civil disobedience, rallies and protests. Prio ...

(DAN), a former disability rights campaign in the UK *

Divers Alert Network Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a group of not-for-profit organizations dedicated to improving diving safety for all divers. It was founded in Durham, North Carolina, United States, in 1980 at Duke University providing 24/7 telephonic hot-line div ...

(DAN), a non-profit organization for Scuba diving

Science

* daN (decanewton), unit of force—see newton *

DAN (protein) Poly(A)-specific ribonuclease (PARN), also known as polyadenylate-specific ribonuclease or deadenylating nuclease (DAN), is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''PARN'' gene In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian ...

, a family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors *

Dorsal attention network The dorsal attention network (DAN), also known anatomically as the dorsal frontoparietal network (D-FPN), is a large-scale brain network of the human brain that is primarily composed of the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and frontal eye fields (FE ...

(DAN), a sensory orienting system in the brain *

Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons The Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument is an experiment mounted on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity (rover), ''Curiosity'' rover. It is a pulsed sealed-tube neutron source and detector used to measure hydrogen or ice and water at or ...

(DAN), a scientific instrument on board the ''Curiosity'' rover

Other

* ''Dan'', a 1914 film starring

Lois Meredith Lois Meredith (alternative styling Loïs Mérédith) (June 26, 1897 – January 15, 1967) was a silent film and theatre actress. Career She infrequently appeared on the Broadway stage from 1911 to 1926. Meredith appeared in 22 films, of which 21 ...

Dan (Chinese opera) ''Dan'' is the general name for female roles in Chinese opera, often referring to leading roles. They may be played by male or female actors. In the early years of Peking opera, all roles were played by men, but this practice is no longer commo ...

, a female role in Chinese opera *

Dan (cuneiform) The cuneiform ''dan'' sign is a multi-use sign found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Besides dan, (and tan), the following are its uses (from Epic of Gilgamesh): :dan :kal :lab :lap :lép :líb :líp :reb ...

, a cuneiform sign * ''Dan'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Montenegro *

Dan (rank) The ranking system is used by many Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, and other martial arts organizations to indicate the level of a person's ability within a given system. Used as a ranking system to quantify skill level in a specific domain, it w ...

in Japanese, Chinese and Korean martial arts, go, and shogi * English corruption of the title Dominus * Do Anything Now (DAN), a jailbreak for ChatGPT *

Dan (volume) A ''dan'' or ''shi'' () in China, ''koku'' in Japan and ''seok'' () in Korea, is a unit of volume mainly for grains. It originated in China and later spread to other places in East Asia. One ''dan'' is divided into 10 '' dous'' or 100 '' shengs'' ...

, a traditional Chinese measure unit of volume *

Dan (weight) Dan ( zh, s=担 , t=擔 , p=dàn), or ''Daam'' in Cantonese, ''Tan'' in Japanese and Taiwanese, also called "Chinese hundredweight" or "picul", is a traditional Chinese unit for weight measurement in East Asia. It originated in China before being ...

, a traditional Chinese measure unit of weight *

Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (formerly Dance/Electronic Songs) is a record chart has been published weekly by ''Billboard'' since January 2013. It is their first chart to be published that ranks the most popular dance and electronic songs according ...

, a ''Billboard'' chart with the shortcut "DAN"

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