Ran Explained

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, a 2004 MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game)
• Ran, a 1903 Swedish opera on the Nordic myth by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

People

• Ran (surname), a Chinese surname
• Ran (given name)
• Ran Masaki (Japanese: link=no|真咲 乱, born 1965), Japanese JAV actress
• Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian children's book author born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov (1886–1958)
• RaN, Nissim of Gerona (1320–1376), Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven (RaN, the Hebrew acronym of his name, ר"ן)

Fictional or mythological characters

• Rán, a goddess of the sea in Norse mythology
• Ran (Shugo Chara!), in the manga series Shugo Chara!
• Ran (Urusei Yatsura), in the manga series Urusei Yatsura
• Ran, from the sprite webcomic Bob and George
• Ran Aresu, from Inazuma Eleven
• Ran Kotobuki, in the manga series Gals!
• Ran Kuroki, a character from Kamen Rider Fourze
• Ran Mitake, from the media franchise BanG Dream!
• Ran Mori, in the manga series Detective Conan
• Ran Shibuki, in the arcade collectible card game series Aikatsu
• Ran Uzaki, a main character from the 2007 Japanese tokusatsu television series Juken Sentai Gekiranger
• Ran Yakumo, in the Touhou Project series of games
• Ran Hanamichi, a character in Delicious Party Pretty Cure

Other uses

• Ran (star) or Epsilon Eridani, a star
• Ran (protein), 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

See also

• RAN (disambiguation)