# Dan

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**Dan** or **DAN** may refer to:

## People

- [Dan (name)](/source/Dan_(name)), including a list of people with the name - [Dan (king)](/source/Dan_(king)), several kings of Denmark
- [Dan people](/source/Dan_people), an ethnic group located in West Africa - [Dan language](/source/Dan_language), a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
- [Dan (son of Jacob)](/source/Dan_(son_of_Jacob)), one of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel in the Bible - [Tribe of Dan](/source/Tribe_of_Dan), one of the 12 tribes of Israel descended from Dan - [Danel](/source/Danel), the hero figure of Ugarit who might have inspired stories of the biblical figure
- [Crown Prince Dan](/source/Crown_Prince_Dan), prince of Yan in ancient China

## Places

- [Dan (ancient city)](/source/Dan_(ancient_city)), the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan
- [Dan, Israel](/source/Dan,_Israel), a kibbutz
- Dan, subdistrict of [Kap Choeng District](/source/Kap_Choeng_District), Thailand
- [Dan, West Virginia](/source/Dan,_West_Virginia), an unincorporated community in the United States
- [Dan River (disambiguation)](/source/Dan_River_(disambiguation))
- [Danzhou](/source/Danzhou), formerly Dan County, China
- [Gush Dan](/source/Gush_Dan) (Hebrew: גּוּשׁ דָּן, lit. 'Dan bloc'), the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv in Israel

## Organizations

- [Dan-Air](/source/Dan-Air), a defunct airline in the United Kingdom
- [Dan Bus Company](/source/Dan_Bus_Company), a public transport company in Israel
- [Dan Hotels](/source/Dan_Hotels), a hotel chain in Israel
- Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), a defunct, controversial program of the [Autism Research Institute](/source/Autism_Research_Institute)
- [Direct Action Network](/source/Direct_Action_Network), a confederation of anarchist and anti-authoritarian affinity groups, collectives, and organizations
- [Disabled People's Direct Action Network](/source/Disabled_People's_Direct_Action_Network), a former disability rights campaign in the UK
- [Divers Alert Network](/source/Divers_Alert_Network), a non-profit organization for Scuba diving

## Science

- daN (decanewton), unit of force—see [newton](/source/Newton_(unit))
- [DAN (protein)](/source/DAN_(protein)), a family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
- [Dorsal attention network](/source/Dorsal_attention_network), a sensory orienting system in the brain
- [Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons](/source/Dynamic_Albedo_of_Neutrons), a scientific instrument on board the *Curiosity* rover

## Other

- [Dàn](/source/D%C3%A0n) or *Dangbé*, a snake deity in the Kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin)
- *Dan*, a 1914 film starring [Lois Meredith](/source/Lois_Meredith)
- [Dan (Chinese opera)](/source/Dan_(Chinese_opera)), a female role in Chinese opera
- [Dan (cuneiform)](/source/Dan_(cuneiform)), a cuneiform sign
- [*Dan* (newspaper)](/source/Dan_(newspaper)), a daily newspaper published in Montenegro
- [Dan (rank)](/source/Dan_(rank)) in Japanese, Chinese and Korean martial arts, go, and shogi
- "Dan", a song by Owen Riegling from the 2024 album *[Bruce County (From the Beginning)](/source/Bruce_County_(From_the_Beginning))*
- English corruption of the title [Dominus](/source/Dominus_(title))
- Do Anything Now (DAN), a [jailbreak for ChatGPT](/source/ChatGPT#Jailbreaking)
- [Dan (volume)](/source/Dan_(volume)), a traditional Chinese measure unit of volume
- [Dan (weight)](/source/Dan_(weight)), a traditional Chinese measure unit of weight

## See also

- [List of people with given name Dan](/source/List_of_people_with_given_name_Dan)
- [Daniel (disambiguation)](/source/Daniel_(disambiguation))
- [Danny (disambiguation)](/source/Danny_(disambiguation))
- [Dane](/source/Dane)

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