Ban

Last updated January 27, 2026

Ban, or BAN, may refer to:

Law

Ban (law), a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship, being denied from entering or using the place/item
- Imperial ban (Reichsacht), a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
Ban (medieval), the sovereign's power to command
- King's ban (Königsbann), a royal command or prohibition in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
Herem (disambiguation), a Hebrew word usually translated as "the ban"
A ban or "banning order" could be served on people in apartheid-era South Africa

Ban (Internet), the banning of individual users from websites
Body Area Network, a wireless network of wearable computing devices
IP ban, a block set up by a server or website that blocks requests originating from particular IP addresses or ranges of addresses
Shadow ban or stealth ban, a practice used in managing online communities

Ban (Chinese surname), a Chinese surname
Ban (Korean name), a Korean surname and element in given names
- Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ziad Tariq, Iraqi psychiatric (1991–2025)
King Ban, a king from the Matter of Britain
Ban (title), a noble title used in Central and Southeastern Europe (Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Hungary)
- Ban of Bosnia
- Ban of Croatia
Lynn Ban (1973–2025), Singapore-born jewelry designer
Marijan Ban (born 1963), Croatian musician, frontman of the rock band Daleka obala
Matija Ban (1818–1903), Serbo-Croatian poet
Mitrofan Ban (1841–1920), Serbian-Montenegrin cleric
Nenad Ban (born 1966), Croatian biochemist
Oana Ban (born 1986), Romanian artistic gymnast
Olga Ban (1926–1943), Croatian partisan
Shigeru Ban (born 1957), Japanese architect
Y Ban (born 1961), real name Phạm Thị Xuân Ban, Vietnamese writer
Zoran Ban (born 1973), Croatian football player

Balinese language (ISO 639-2 and -3 code "ban"), spoken in Indonesia
BAN, the National Rail code for Banbury railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK
BAN, the Chapman code for Banffshire, historic county in Scotland
BAN, the IOC code for Bangladesh at the Olympics
BAN, the IATA code for Basongo Airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

An alternate spelling for "bann" as in banns of marriage
Paiban, a clapper used in Chinese music, alternately called BAN)
Ban (unit), a logarithmic unit of information or weight of evidence
Ban (deodorant), a brand name deodorant & antiperspirant
Ban (plural: bani), a coin, the 1/100 part of a Romanian leu or Moldovan leu
"Ban" (song), a 2021 single by Sakurazaka46
Basel Action Network
British Approved Name, for a pharmaceutical substance
Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic, BAN logic, used to analyze authentication protocols
Muban, or Ban for short, is the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand
"B.A.N." (Atlanta), an episode of the American TV series Atlanta
"B.A.N.", a song by Saweetie

Ban (The Seven Deadly Sins), a character in the manga series The Seven Deadly Sins
Ban Mido, a character in the manga series GetBackers
BanBan Akaza, nicknamed Ban, a character in the television series Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger