Ran, RaN and ran may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Ran'' (film), a 1985 film directed by Akira Kurosawa * "Ran" (song), a 2013 Japanese song by Luna Sea * ''

Ran Online ''Ran Online'' (stylized as ''RAN Online'', zh, 亂Online) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Min Communications, Inc., the company that had also developed ''Remnant Knights''. After starting the first official ...

'', a 2004 MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) *''Ran'', a 1903 Swedish opera on the Nordic myth by

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ( 27 February 1867 — 3 December 1942) was a Swedes, Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Edvard Grieg, Grieg, August Söderman and Richard Wagner, Wagner as well as Swed ...

People

Ran (surname) Rǎn is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Jan in Wade–Giles. Ran is listed 301st in the Song dynasty classic text '' Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 178th mo ...

, a Chinese surname * Ran (given name) *

Ran Masaki (born July 26, 1965) is a former Japanese AV idol, pink film actress and gravure model who was active in the 1980s and rose to prominence as Nikkatsu's final from 1985 to 1986. Masaki starred in three Roman Porno films (two of them written by O ...

(, born 1965), Japanese JAV actress * Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian children's book author born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov (1886–1958) * RaN,

Nissim of Gerona Nissim ben Reuven (1290 – 9th of Shevat, 1376, ) of Girona, Catalonia was an influential talmudist and authority on Jewish law. He was one of the last of the great Spanish medieval Talmudic scholars. He is also known by his Hebrew acronym, the ...

(1320–1376), Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven (RaN, the Hebrew acronym of his name, ר"ן)

Fictional or mythological characters

Rán In Norse mythology, Rán (Old Norse: ) is a goddess and a personification of the sea. Rán and her husband Ægir, a jötunn who also personifies the sea, have nine daughters, who personify waves. The goddess is frequently associated with a net, ...

, a goddess of the sea in Norse mythology *

Ran (Shugo Chara!) ''Shugo Chara!'' is a Japanese shōjo manga created by the manga author duo Peach-Pit. The story centers on elementary schoolgirl Amu Hinamori, whose popular exterior, referred to as "cool and spicy" by her classmates, contrasts with her intro ...

, in the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' * Ran (Urusei Yatsura), in the manga series ''Urusei Yatsura'' * Ran, from the sprite webcomic ''

Bob and George ''Bob and George'' was a sprite-based webcomic which parodied the fictional universe of ''Mega Man''. It was written by David Anez, who was a physics instructor living in the American Midwest at the time. The comic first appeared on April 1, 200 ...

'' * Ran Aresu, from ''

Inazuma Eleven is an association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football ...

'' * Ran Kotobuki, in the manga series ''Gals!'' * Ran Kuroki, a character from ''Kamen Rider Fourze'' * Ran Mitake, from the media franchise ''

BanG Dream! ''BanG Dream!'', also known as , is a Japanese music media franchise owned by Bushiroad. Created by Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani in January 2015 with original story by Kō Nakamura, the project began as a manga before ex ...

'' *

Ran Mori The manga series ''Case Closed'', also known as ''Detective Conan'', features a large cast of fictional characters created by Gosho Aoyama. Set in modern-day Japan, it follows amateur high school detective Jimmy Kudo as he solves cases in an epi ...

, in the manga series ''Detective Conan'' *

Ran Shibuki is a multimedia franchise spawned from an arcade game, arcade collectible card game in Bandai's ''Data Carddass'' line of machines, which launched in October 2012. The game revolves around using collectible cards featuring various ...

, in the arcade collectible card game series ''Aikatsu'' *

Ran Uzaki is Toei Company's thirty-first entry in the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries. Production began on September 29, 2006, with principal photography beginning on October 6, 2006. It aired on TV Asahi's 2007 Super Hero Time programming block with ''Kamen R ...

, a main character from the 2007 Japanese tokusatsu television series ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger'' *

Ran Yakumo The , also known simply as , is a bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series created by Indie game, independent Japanese Doujin soft, soft developer Team Shanghai Alice. The team's sole member, ZUN (video game developer), Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, ha ...

, in the ''Touhou Project'' series of games * Ran Hanamichi, a character in ''

Delicious Party Pretty Cure } is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation and the nineteenth installment in the ''Pretty Cure'' franchise. Directed by Toshinori Fukazawa and written by Sawako Hirabayashi, it premiered on ANN on February 6, 2022, s ...

Other uses

Ran (star) Epsilon Eridani ( Latinized from ε Eridani), proper name Ran, is a star in the southern constellation of Eridanus. At a declination of −9.46°, it is visible from most of Earth's surface. Located at a distance from the Sun, it has ...

or ''Epsilon Eridani'', a star *

Ran (protein) Ran (RAs-related Nuclear protein) also known as GTP-binding nuclear protein Ran is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAN gene. Ran is a small 25 kDa protein that is involved in transport into and out of the cell nucleus during interphas ...

, a small GTPase that is involved in import and export within a cell nucleus as well as mitosis * ran, in mathematics, an abbreviation of

range Range may refer to: Geography * Range (geographic), a chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra) ** Mountain range, a group of mountains bordered by lowlands * Range, a term used to i ...

Arts and entertainment

People

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