# Ban

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'''Ban''', or '''BAN''', may refer to:

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== Law ==
* [Ban (law)](/source/Ban_(law)), a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship, being denied from entering or using the place/item
** [Imperial ban](/source/Imperial_ban) (''Reichsacht''), a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
* [Ban (medieval)](/source/Ban_(medieval)), the sovereign's power to command
** [King's ban](/source/King's_ban) (''Königsbann''), a royal command or prohibition in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
* [Herem (disambiguation)](/source/Herem_(disambiguation)), a Hebrew word usually translated as "the ban"
* A ban or "[banning order](/source/banning_order)" could be served on people in apartheid-era South Africa

== Internet ==
* [Ban (Internet)](/source/Ban_(Internet)), the banning of individual users from websites
* [Body Area Network](/source/Body_Area_Network), a wireless network of wearable computing devices
* [IP ban](/source/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](/source/Shadow_ban) or stealth ban, a practice used in managing online communities

== People ==
* [Ban (Chinese surname)](/source/Ban_(Chinese_surname)), a Chinese surname
* [Ban (Korean name)](/source/Ban_(Korean_name)), a Korean surname and element in given names
** [Ban Ki-moon](/source/Ban_Ki-moon), United Nations Secretary-General
*[Ban Ziad Tariq](/source/Ban_Ziad_Tariq), Iraqi psychiatric (1991–2025)
* [King Ban](/source/King_Ban), a king from the Matter of Britain
* [Ban (title)](/source/Ban_(title)), a noble title used in Central and Southeastern Europe (Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Hungary)
** [Ban of Bosnia](/source/Ban_of_Bosnia)
** [Ban of Croatia](/source/Ban_of_Croatia)
* [Lynn Ban](/source/Lynn_Ban) (1973–2025), Singapore-born jewelry designer
* [Marijan Ban](/source/Marijan_Ban) (born 1963), Croatian musician, frontman of the rock band ''Daleka obala''
* [Matija Ban](/source/Matija_Ban) (1818–1903), Serbo-Croatian poet
* [Mitrofan Ban](/source/Mitrofan_Ban) (1841–1920), Serbian-Montenegrin cleric
* [Nenad Ban](/source/Nenad_Ban) (born 1966), Croatian biochemist
* [Oana Ban](/source/Oana_Ban) (born 1986), Romanian artistic gymnast
* [Olga Ban](/source/Olga_Ban) (1926–1943), Croatian partisan
* [Shigeru Ban](/source/Shigeru_Ban) (born 1957), Japanese architect
* [Y Ban](/source/Y_Ban) (born 1961), real name Phạm Thị Xuân Ban, Vietnamese writer
* [Zoran Ban](/source/Zoran_Ban) (born 1973), Croatian football player

== Places ==
* [Ban, Burkina Faso](/source/Ban%2C_Burkina_Faso), a town in Burkina Faso
* [Bans, Jura](/source/Bans%2C_Jura), a commune in eastern France
* [Ban, Murree](/source/Ban%2C_Murree), a village and UC of Rawalpindi District, Pakistan
* Ban, an alternate name of [Ben](/source/Ben%2C_Iran), a city in Iran
* [Ban, Iran](/source/Ban%2C_Iran), a village in Markazi Province, Iran
* Ban, a village in [Bănișor](/source/B%C4%83ni%C8%99or) Commune, Sălaj County, Romania
* [Ban (river)](/source/Ban_(river)), a river in Sălaj County, Romania
* Ban, habitation in Thai [muban](/source/muban)
* Ban, a settlement in [Sarawak](/source/Sarawak), Malaysia
* [Ban, Kubu, Karangasem](/source/Ban%2C_Kubu%2C_Karangasem), a village in Bali
* [Bans, Raebareli](/source/Bans%2C_Raebareli), a village in Uttar Pradesh, India

== Codes ==
* [Balinese language](/source/Balinese_language) (ISO 639-2 and -3 code "ban"), spoken in Indonesia
* BAN, the National Rail code for [Banbury railway station](/source/Banbury_railway_station) in the county of Oxfordshire, UK
* BAN, the Chapman code for [Banffshire](/source/Banffshire), historic county in Scotland
* BAN, the IOC code for [Bangladesh at the Olympics](/source/Bangladesh_at_the_Olympics)
* BAN, the IATA code for [Basongo Airport](/source/Basongo_Airport) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* BAN, the ISO provincial code for [Bataan](/source/Bataan), Philippines

== Other ==
* An alternate spelling for "bann" as in [banns of marriage](/source/banns_of_marriage)
* [Paiban](/source/Paiban), a clapper used in Chinese music, alternately called BAN)
* [Ban (unit)](/source/Ban_(unit)), a logarithmic unit of information or weight of evidence
* [Ban (deodorant)](/source/Ban_(deodorant)), a brand name deodorant & antiperspirant
* Ban (plural: ''bani''), a coin, the 1/100 part of a [Romanian leu](/source/Romanian_leu) or [Moldovan leu](/source/Moldovan_leu)
* ["Ban" (song)](/source/Ban_(song)), a 2021 single by Sakurazaka46
* [Basel Action Network](/source/Basel_Action_Network)
* [British Approved Name](/source/British_Approved_Name), for a pharmaceutical substance
* [Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic](/source/Burrows%E2%80%93Abadi%E2%80%93Needham_logic), BAN logic, used to analyze authentication protocols
* [Muban](/source/Muban), or Ban for short, is the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand
* ["B.A.N." (Atlanta)](/source/B.A.N._(Atlanta)), an episode of the American TV series ''Atlanta''
* "B.A.N.", a song by [Saweetie](/source/Saweetie_discography)

== Fictional characters ==
* [Ban (''The Seven Deadly Sins'')](/source/Ban_(The_Seven_Deadly_Sins)), a character in the manga series ''The Seven Deadly Sins''
* [Ban Mido](/source/Ban_Mido), a character in the manga series ''GetBackers''
* [BanBan Akaza](/source/List_of_Tokusou_Sentai_Dekaranger_characters), nicknamed Ban, a character in the television series ''Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger''

== See also ==
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* [Bann (disambiguation)](/source/Bann_(disambiguation))
* [Banned (disambiguation)](/source/Banned_(disambiguation))
* [Banning (disambiguation)](/source/Banning_(disambiguation))
* [Block (disambiguation)](/source/Block_(disambiguation))

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