Moran may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

Moran Bluff Shepard Island () is an island about long, lying west of Grant Island off the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The island is ice capped except at its northern, seaward side, and is almost wholly embedded in the Getz Ice Shelf. Location ...

, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Buttress, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Glacier, Alexander Island

Asia

Moran Town Moran is a small town in Dibrugarh district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Assam. Moran is an important industrial town in India. It is a major oil field and a major tea-producing area. Etymology The name "Moran" is act ...

, Assam, India * Moran, Israel, a kibbutz *

Moran Hill Moranbong () or Moran Hill forms a park located in central Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Its summit is the location of the Pyongyang TV Tower. There are multiple monumental structures located on Moran Hill. They include the Arc ...

, North Korea *

Moran Station Moran Station serves as the southern terminal of Seoul Subway Line 8 and is also a stop on the Suin–Bundang Line. The Moran Market is held near the station during the 4th and 9th days of the month. Station layout Suin–Bundang Line Line ...

, a station of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway in Seongnam, South Korea

North America

* Moran, British Columbia, Canada, a railway point ** Moran Canyon (British Columbia), a natural feature on the Fraser River * Moran, Indiana, an unincorporated town *

Moran, Kansas Moran is a city in Marmaton Township, Allen County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 466. History Moran had its start in the year 1881 by the building of the Saint Louis, Fort Scott, and Wichita ...

, a city * Moran, Ohio, a neighborhood of Streetsboro, Ohio *

Moran, Texas Moran is a city in southeast Shackelford County, Texas, United States. The population was 226 at the 2020 census. Geography Moran is situated at the intersection of Texas State Highway 6 and Farm to Market 576 approximately 15 miles southea ...

, a city * Moran, Virginia, an unincorporated community *

Moran, Wyoming Moran (also Moran Junction) is an unincorporated village in south central Teton County, Wyoming, United States: as the community has had two different names, the Board on Geographic Names officially ruled in favor of "Moran" in 1970. It lies ...

, an unincorporated community *

Moran Canyon (Wyoming) :''This is about the canyon in Wyoming, United States. For the canyon on the Fraser River, in British Columbia, Canada, see Moran, British Columbia.'' Moran Canyon is located in Grand Teton National Park, in the U. S. state of Wyoming. The can ...

Moran Creek (Minnesota) Moran Creek is a stream in Todd County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Moran Creek bears the name of a lumberman. See also *List of rivers of Minnesota Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow for . The Mississ ...

Moran Creek (Hay Creek tributary) Moran Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Montana Montana ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, ...

, Montana * Moran Formation, Texas, a geologic formation * Moran Lake, British Columbia, Canada *

Moran River The Moran River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed December 19, 2011 river on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. It begins at the outlet of Chain Lak ...

, Michigan *

Moran State Park Moran State Park is a public recreation area on Orcas Island in Puget Sound's San Juan Islands in the state of Washington, United States. The state park encompasses over 5,000 acres of various terrain including forests, wetlands, bogs, hills, an ...

, Washington *

Moran Township, Michigan Moran Township is a civil township of Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,029 at the 2020 census. Geography The township is in central Mackinac County, along the northeast shore of Lake Michigan. The southeaste ...

Moran Township, Richland County, North Dakota Moran may refer to: Places Antarctica * Moran Bluff, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Buttress, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Glacier, Alexander Island Asia * Moran Town, Assam, India * Moran, Israel, a kibbutz * Moran Hill, North Korea * Moran Station, a s ...

Richland County, North Dakota Richland County is a County (United States), county in the far southeast corner of the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 16,529, and was estimated to be 16,658 in 2024. The county s ...

Moran Township, Todd County, Minnesota Moran Township is a township in Todd County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 515 at the 2000 census. By the 2020 census the population had declined to 48 Moran Township was organized in 1877, and named after Moran Creek (Minnesota), ...

Mount Moran Mount Moran () is a mountain in Grand Teton National Park of western Wyoming, United States, USA. The mountain is named for Thomas Moran, an American western frontier landscape artist. Mount Moran dominates the northern section of the Teton Rang ...

, Wyoming

South America

Morán Municipality The Morán Municipality is one of the nine municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Lara and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population ...

, Venezuela

Elsewhere

10372 Moran 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

, an asteroid

Persons with the name

Moran (given name) Moran may refer to: Places Antarctica * Moran Bluff, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Buttress, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Glacier, Alexander Island Asia * Moran Town, Assam, India * Moran, Israel, a kibbutz * Moran Hill, North Korea * Moran Station, a s ...

, a unisex given name *

Moran (surname) Moran () is a modern Irish surname derived from membership of a medieval dynastic sept. The name means a descendant of ''Mórán''. “Mor” in Gaelic translates as big or great and “an” as the prefix the. Morans were a respected sept of t ...

, an Irish surname * Moran (Syriac), Syriac title for Jesus Christ * Morán, a Spanish surname

Groups of people

* Moran (Maasai) or Il-murran, warriors among the Maasai of Kenya *

Moran people The Moran are an ethnic group found in the northeast Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. They are of Tibeto-Burman origin and belong to the Kachari family. They speak Assamese language, though they used to speak Moran language which ...

, an ethnic group of Assam

Fictional characters

* Moran, the title character of the 1922 American film ''

Moran of the Lady Letty ''Moran of the Lady Letty'' is a 1922 American silent adventure drama film directed by George Melford and stars Rudolph Valentino and Dorothy Dalton. Melford and Valentino had previously worked together on the box office hit '' The Sheik'', in ...

'' * Moran, a female Irish Quidditch player in ''

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. It is the fourth novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. It follows Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter, a wizard in his fourth year at Hogwar ...

'' * Gia Moran, a female character in ''

Power Rangers Megaforce ''Power Rangers Megaforce'' is the twentieth season of the long-running television series ''Power Rangers''. The show is produced by Saban Brands and began airing on Nickelodeon on February 2, 2013. The show was part of the ''Power Rangers'' 20t ...

'' * Michael Moran, the title character of the 1928 American film ''

Moran of the Marines ''Moran of the Marines'' is a lost 1928 American comedy silent film directed by Frank R. Strayer and written by Ray Harris, Agnes Brand Leahy, George Marion Jr., Sam Mintz and Linton Wells. The film stars Richard Dix, Ruth Elder, Roscoe Karns ...

'' *

Sebastian Moran Colonel Sebastian Moran is a fictional character in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. An enemy of Sherlock Holmes, he first appears in the 1903 short story " The Adventure of the Empty House". Holmes once described him as "the second mos ...

, an enemy of

Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes () is a Detective fiction, fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "Private investigator, consulting detective" in his stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with obser ...

Other uses

MORAN Moran may refer to: Places Antarctica * Moran Bluff, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Buttress, Marie Byrd Land * Moran Glacier, Alexander Island Asia * Moran Town, Assam, India * Moran, Israel, a kibbutz * Moran Hill, North Korea * Moran Station, a s ...

, an acronym for Multi-Operator Radio Access Network * Baron Moran, British peerage title * Kenyan Morans, nickname of Kenya's national basketball team * Moran Building, Washington, DC, on the National Register of Historic Places * Moran Dam, a proposed dam on the Fraser River at Moran, British Columbia, Canada *

Moran language Moran (''Morān'') is an extinct Boro-Garo language which was spoken in Assam in Northeast India (mostly Tinsukia district) and related to Dimasa language. The census returned 78 speakers in 1901, 24 in 1911 and none in 1931, and the only sourc ...

, an extinct Tibeto-Burman language of India * Moran Medal in Statistical Sciences, awarded every two years by the Australian Academy of Science * Moran Municipal Generation Station, Burlington, Vermont, a power plant * Moran Shipping Agencies, a U.S.-based steamship agency company * Moran's Oyster Cottage, a seafood restaurant and pub in Kilcolgan, County Galway, Ireland