Ruan may refer to:
Buildings
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Ruan Center
The Ruan Center is a high-rise office building located at 666 Grand Avenue in Des Moines, Iowa, which was built by Ruan Transportation. The building was completed in 1975 and stands at a height of , and was the tallest building in Iowa until the ...
, office building in Des Moines, Iowa
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John Ruan House, historic mansion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Places
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Ruan, County Clare
Ruan () is a village and civil parish in County Clare, Ireland. It is in the Catholic parish of Dysart and Ruan.
Location
Ruan is near the Burren and between Corofin, County Clare, Corofin, Crusheen and Ennis. Ennis is the nearest major town ...
, Ireland, a village and civil parish
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Ruan, Loiret, France, a small commune
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Mont Ruan, Switzerland, a mountain
*Ruan Major and Ruan Minor, two settlements in Cornwall, UK, forming part of the civil parish of
Grade–Ruan
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Ruan Lanihorne, a civil parish and village in south Cornwall, England
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St Ruan, a hamlet in Cornwall, England
People
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Ruan Botha (born 1992), a South African rugby union player
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Ruan Renato (born 1994), Brazilian football player
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Ruan (footballer, born 1995), Brazilian football player, full name ''Ruan Gregório Teixeira''
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Ruan (footballer, born 1998), Brazilian football player, full name ''Ruan Vinicius Silva de Jesus''
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Ruan (footballer, born 2005), Brazilian football player, full name ''Ruan Pereira Duarte''
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Ruan Pienaar (born 1984), a South African professional rugby union player
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Ruan (surname)
Ruan ( zh, c=阮, p=Ruǎn, w=''Juan'', ) is a Chinese surname.
The Taiwanese Hokkien version or is transcribed Oán and Ńg in Pe̍h-ōe-jī. The Cantonese language, Cantonese version is romanized Jyun2 in the Jyutping system or Yún in the Y ...
Other uses
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Ruan (instrument)
The ''ruan'' () is a Traditional Chinese musical instruments, traditional Chinese plucked string instrument. It is a lute with a fretted neck, a circular body, and four strings. Its four strings were formerly made of silk but since the 20th cen ...
, a family of Chinese stringed instruments
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