Ban, or BAN, may refer to:

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

  • Bann (disambiguation)
  • Banned (disambiguation)
  • Banning (disambiguation)
  • Block (disambiguation)