Dan or DAN may refer to:
People
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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
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Dan (king), several kings of Denmark
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Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa
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Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
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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
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Tribe of Dan, one of the 12 tribes of Israel descended from Dan
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Danel, the hero figure of
Ugarit who inspired stories of the biblical figure
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Crown Prince Dan, prince of Yan in ancient China
Places
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Dan (ancient city), the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan
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Dan, Israel, a kibbutz
* Dan, subdistrict of
Kap Choeng District, Thailand
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Dan, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
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Dan River (disambiguation)
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Danzhou, formerly Dan County, China
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Gush Dan, the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv in Israel
Organizations
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Dan-Air, a defunct airline in the United Kingdom
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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
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Dan Hotels, a hotel chain in Israel
*Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), a defunct, controversial program of the
Autism Research Institute
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Direct Action Network (DAN), a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
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Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN), a former disability rights campaign in the UK
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Divers Alert Network (DAN), a non-profit organization for Scuba diving
Science
* daN (decanewton), unit of force—see
newton
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DAN (protein), a family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
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Dorsal attention network (DAN), a sensory orienting system in the brain
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Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN), a scientific instrument on board the ''Curiosity'' rover
Other
* ''Dan'', a 1914 film starring
Lois Meredith
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Dan (Chinese opera), a female role in Chinese opera
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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
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''Dan'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Montenegro
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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
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Dan (volume), a traditional Chinese measure unit of volume
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Dan (weight), a traditional Chinese measure unit of weight
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Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, a ''Billboard'' chart with the shortcut "DAN"
See also
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Daniel (disambiguation)
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Danny (disambiguation)
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List of people named Dan, people with the given name Dan
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