Dan

Dan or DAN may refer to:

People

• Dan (name), including a list of people with the name
  • Dan (king), several kings of Denmark
• Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa
  • Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
• Dan (son of Jacob), one of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel in the Bible
  • Tribe of Dan, one of the 12 tribes of Israel descended from Dan
  • Danel, the hero figure of Ugarit who inspired stories of the biblical figure
• Crown Prince Dan, prince of Yan in ancient China

Places

• Dan (ancient city), the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan
• Dan, Israel, a kibbutz
• Dan, subdistrict of Kap Choeng District, Thailand
• Dan, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Dan River (disambiguation)
• Danzhou, formerly Dan County, China
• Gush Dan, the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv in Israel

Organizations

• Dan-Air, a defunct airline in the United Kingdom
• Dan Bus Company, a public transport company in Israel
• Dan Hotels, a hotel chain in Israel
• Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), a defunct, controversial program of the Autism Research Institute
• Direct Action Network (DAN), a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
• Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN), a former disability rights campaign in the UK
• Divers Alert Network (DAN), a non-profit organization for Scuba diving

Science

• daN (decanewton), unit of force—see newton
• DAN (protein), a family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
• Dorsal attention network (DAN), a sensory orienting system in the brain
• Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN), a scientific instrument on board the Curiosity rover

Other

• Dan, a 1914 film starring Lois Meredith
• Dan (Chinese opera), a female role in Chinese opera
• Dan (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
• Dan (newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Montenegro
• Dan (rank) in Japanese, Chinese and Korean martial arts, go, and shogi
• English corruption of the title Dominus
• Do Anything Now (DAN), a jailbreak for ChatGPT
• Dan (volume), a traditional Chinese measure unit of volume
• Dan (weight), a traditional Chinese measure unit of weight

See also

• Daniel (disambiguation)
• Danny (disambiguation)
• List of people named Dan, people with the given name Dan