Aran may refer to:

Places

Azerbaijan

Villages and municipalities:

  • Aran, Aghjabadi
  • Aran, Lerik
  • Aran, Shaki
  • Aran, Tovuz
  • Aran, Yevlakh

Iran

  • Aran, Alborz, a village in Alborz Province
  • Aran, Nain, a village in Isfahan Province
  • Aran, Kermanshah, a village in Kermanshah Province
  • Aran, former name of the city of Rezvanshahr, Isfahan
  • Aran, former name of Bileh Savar in Ardabil Province

Russia

  • Aran, village in Dagestan

Elsewhere

  • Aran Fawddwy, mountain in Wales, United Kingdom
  • Aran Benllyn, subsidiary summit
  • Aran (river), in France
  • Aran Islands, a group of islands across the mouth of Galway Bay, Ireland
  • Arranmore, also known as Aran Island, off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland
  • Val d'Aran, commonly shortened to Aran, an autonomous region of Catalonia, Spain
  • Aran Island (disambiguation), several islands
  • Isle of Arran, Scotland

People

  • Aran Bell, American ballet dancer
  • Aran Embleton (born 1981), English female international footballer
  • Aran Fox (born 1988), English ice hockey goaltender
  • Aran Hakutora (born 1984), Russian sumo wrestler
  • Aran Jones, chief executive of Cymuned, a Welsh pressure group
  • Aran Tharp (born 1977), New York filmmaker
  • Aran Zalewski (born 1991), Australian field hockey player
  • François-Amilcar Aran (1817–1861), French physician

Fictional characters

  • Samus Aran, the protagonist of Nintendo's Metroid video game series
  • Aran Linvail, in the role-playing game Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
  • Aran Ryan, in the Nintendo-produced Punch-Out!! game series

Other uses

  • Aran or Haran, brother of Abraham in the Bible
  • Aran jumper, a style of jumper originating in Ireland
  • , a former vessel of the Swedish Navy
  • Aran (film), a 2006 film in the Tamil language
  • , ISO 15294 code for the Nastaliq (Persian and Urdu) script
  • Left Recomposition or ARAN, a political party in Greece

See also

  • Aaron (disambiguation)
  • Arran (disambiguation)
  • Arun (disambiguation)
  • Earl of Arran (Ireland)
  • Enda of Aran (5th-6th century), Irish saint
  • Aer Arann, former regional airline in Ireland