Dan is a masculine name. It refers sometimes to the short form of the name Daniel. Daniel is a Hebrew Masculine Given name and a Surname. It means "God is my judge" and derives from two early Biblical figures

• Dan (Biblical figure), one of the sons of Jacob
• Dan (king), the name of one or more legendary Danish kings
• Dan (Chinese opera), a female role in Beijing opera
• DAN (protein) family of tgf beta signaling protein inhibitors
• Dan (newspaper), daily newspaper published in Montenegro
• Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
• Dan rank in Japanese, Chinese and Korean fine and martial arts. Dan ( Hebrew: דָּן Standard Dan Tiberian Dān "Judge" was according to the Book of Genesis, a Dan is the name of one or more legendary kings of the Danes in medieval Scandinavian texts Dan ( 旦) is the general name for Female roles in Chinese opera. DAN is a Protein that binds the 5' cap of MRNA and begins degradation in the 3' to 5' direction Dan ( English: The day Serbian Cyrillic: Дан is a daily newspaper published in Montenegro. Dan is a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire (~800000 speakers and Liberia (150800–200000 speakers
• DJ Dan, an electronic music artist who uses the singular name "Dan"
• Dan Dierdorf, a former American football player and current television sportscaster
• Dan Bălan, a Moldovan musician

Organizations which may be referred to as Dan or DAN include:

• Dan Bus Company, a public transport company in Israel
• Divers Alert Network, a non-profit organization for Scuba diving
• Dorsal attention network, a sensory orienting system in the brain

Persons with the surname Dan include:

• Fedor Dan, Russian Marxist revolutionary

Fictional characters named Dan include:

• Dan Hibiki, from the Street Fighter video game series. DJ Dan born Daniel Wherret is a professional recording artist on the Moonshine record label Daniel Lee "Longshanks" Dierdorf (born June 29, 1949) is a Hall of Fame former American football player and current For the football (soccer player see Daniel Bălan. Dan Mihai Bălan (born February 6, 1979 in Chişinău, Dan Bus Company is an Israeli Bus company based in Tel Aviv. It operates local bus service in the Gush Dan metropolitan area as well as some The Divers Alert Network ( DAN) is a non-profit organization devoted to assisting divers in need The dorsal attention network (DAN is one of two sensory orienting systems in the human brain the other being the Ventral attention network. Fedor Il'ich Dan ( Фёдор Ильич Дан, 1871-1949 was born to a Jewish family in St Petersburg. more commonly known simply as Dan, is a character from Capcom 's Street Fighter series of Fighting games Dan is consistently portrayed as an or commonly abbreviated as SF, is a popular series of Fighting games in which the players pit combatants from around the world each with his or her own
• Dan (aka TriceraRanger), from the Japanese television series Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger. translated into English as Dinosaur Squadron Zyuranger is a Japanese Tokusatsu Television series and the sixteenth entry in
• Dan (Salamander anime), one of the main protagonists who pilots the Vic Viper.
• Dan Dare, pilot of the future. Dan Dare is a classic British Science fiction comic hero created by illustrator Frank Hampson.
• Desperate Dan, regular in The Dandy since 1937. History The strip was drawn by Dudley D Watkins until his death in 1969 The Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom.

Places which may be referred to as Dan include:

• Gush Dan, metropolitan area in central Israel
• Tel Dan, an archaeological site in Israel
• Dan (biblical city), the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan
• Dan (kibbutz), a Kibbutz in northern Israel
• Dan River, a river in North Carolina and Virginia, USA

See also

• Daniel (disambiguation)
• daN (decanewton), unit of force - see newton, kilogram-force

Gush Dan (גּוּשׁ דָּן is a Metropolitan area including areas from both the Tel Aviv and the Central Districts of Israel. Tel Dan ("Mound of Dan" תל דן in Hebrew) also known as Tel el-Qadi ( Mound of the Judge in Arabic, literal translation of the Hebrew Dan (דן formerly named Laish, is a town mentioned by the Bible, in which it is portrayed as the northernmost town of the Kingdom of Israel, and formerly A kibbutz ( Hebrew: קיבוץ קִבּוּץ lit "gathering clustering" plural kibbutzim) is a collective community in The Dan River flows in both the US states of North Carolina and Virginia. The newton (symbol N) is the SI derived unit of Force, named after Isaac Newton in recognition of his work on Classical The unit kilogram-force ( kgf, often incorrectly just kg) or kilopond ( kp) is defined as the Force exerted by Earth's gravity

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