Rand Explained

Rand may refer to:

Money and business

• South African rand, the nation's unit of currency
• Krugerrand, South African gold coin
• Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing, type of licensing used in the context of standardisation processes
• Rand formula, formula in Canadian labour law
• Randlord, term used to denote the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase
• Sperry Rand, an American technology company

Places

• Rand, New South Wales, small town in Australia
• Rand, Lincolnshire, small village in Lincolnshire, England
• Brussels Periphery (Flemish territory around the city called Rand rond Brussel in Dutch, commonly shortened to de Rand)

South Africa

• Witwatersrand, escarpment running through Gauteng region, South Africa; commonly shortened to the Rand (die Rand in Afrikaans), and associated urban area (Greater Johannesburg)
  • East Rand, urban eastern part of the Witwatersrand
  • West Rand, urban western part of the Witwatersrand
• Randburg, area in Gauteng province
• Midrand, area in Gauteng province
• Randfontein, a town in Gauteng province

United States

• Randsburg, California
• Rand, Colorado, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado
• Rand, Texas, an unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas
• Rand, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia

People

• Rand (given name)
• Rand (surname)
• Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist and philosopher
• Rand Paul, American politician and physician.
• Rand (Robotech), character from the fictional Third Robotech War
• Rand al'Thor, main protagonist in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
• Paul Rand, American art director and graphic designer

Organizations

• RAND Corporation, an American think tank
• Ayn Rand Institute, an American think tank
• Rand Refinery, the world's largest gold refinery
• Remington Rand, American computer firm and general manufacturer
• Ingersoll-Rand, diversified American industrial firm
• Rand McNally, American map publisher and printer
• Sperry Rand, American equipment and electronics company
• Rand Club, the oldest members club in Johannesburg
• Rand Afrikaans University, a defunct university that is now part of the University of Johannesburg

Science and technology

• rand, any of a number of pseudorandom number generator functions in various programming languages
• Rand index, technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters
• R Andromedae (R And), a variable star
• Rand Airport, an airport near Johannesburg