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'''Ban''', or '''BAN''', may refer to:
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== 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
== Internet == * 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
== People == * 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
== Places == * Ban, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso * Bans, Jura, a commune in eastern France * Ban, Murree, a village and UC of Rawalpindi District, Pakistan * Ban, an alternate name of Ben, a city in Iran * Ban, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran * Ban, a village in Bănișor Commune, Sălaj County, Romania * Ban (river), a river in Sălaj County, Romania * Ban, habitation in Thai muban * Ban, a settlement in Sarawak, Malaysia * Ban, Kubu, Karangasem, a village in Bali * Bans, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
== Codes == * 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 * BAN, the ISO provincial code for Bataan, Philippines
== Other == * 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
== Fictional characters == * 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''
== See also == * {{intitle|Ban}} * {{Lookfrom|Ban}} * {{Lookfrom|BAN}} * Bann (disambiguation) * Banned (disambiguation) * Banning (disambiguation) * Block (disambiguation)
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