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, 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, a city * Moran, Ohio, a neighborhood of Streetsboro, Ohio * Moran, Texas, a city * Moran, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Moran, Wyoming, an unincorporated community * Moran Canyon (Wyoming) * Moran Creek (Minnesota) * Moran Creek (Hay Creek tributary), 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, 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,

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 *

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, Venezuela

Elsewhere

* 10372 Moran, an asteroid

Persons with the name

* Moran (given name), a unisex given name * Moran (surname), 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, 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 ''

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

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

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Other uses

* MORAN, 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