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Dan is an old Scandinavian given name with disputed meaning. Dan is also a Hebrew given name, after Dan, the fifth son of Jacob with Bilhah and founder of the Israelite Tribe of Dan. It is also a given name or a nickname for people named Daniel.
Dan, or the acronym DAN may refer to the following:
People
- Dan (king), several kings of Denmark
- Crown Prince Dan, prince of Yan in ancient China
- Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa
- Dan Lacksman, Belgian musician
- DJ Dan, electronic music artist
- Dan Froyliche, Israeli Olympic sport sailor
- Dan Howell, video blogger and radio personality
People with the surname
- Fyodor Dan (1871–1947), Russian Marxist revolutionary
- Nicușor Dan (born 1969), Romanian activist and mathematician
- Pavel Dan (1907-1937), Romanian short story writer
- Sergiu Dan (1903-1976), Romanian novelist
- Tomoyuki Dan (1963–2013), Japanese actor and voice actor
Places
- Danzhou, formerly Dan County, China
- 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, United States, an unincorporated community
- Dan River (disambiguation)
Fictional characters
- Dan Dare, a British science fiction comic hero
- Desperate Dan, a regular in The Dandy since 1937
- Dan Cahill, in The 39 Clues
- Dan Hibiki, in the Street Fighter Alpha series
- Dan Humphrey, in Gossip Girl
- Dan Kuso, in the Bakugan anime series
- Dan Moroboshi, alias of the title character in Ultra Seven, a 1967 Japanese TV series
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
- Direct Action Network, a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
- Divers Alert Network, a non-profit organization for Scuba diving
- Defeat Autism Now!, a defunct, controversial program of the Autism Research Institute
Other
- Dan, a 1914 film starring Lois Meredith
- Dan (Chinese opera), a female role in Beijing opera
- DAN (protein), a family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
- Dan (newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Montenegro
- Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
- Dan (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
- English corruption of the title Dominus
- Dan (rank) in Japanese, Chinese and Korean martial arts and Go
- Dorsal attention network, a sensory orienting system in the brain
- Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, a scientific instrument on board the Curiosity rover
See also
- Daniel (disambiguation)
- daN (decanewton), unit of force—see newton
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