Aran
# Aran

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, Republic of 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, a comarca of Catalonia consisting of the Aran Valley
* Aran Island (disambiguation), several islands

## 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 sweater, a sweater manufactured in Ireland
* HSwMS Äran, a former vessel of the Swedish Navy
* Aran (film), a 2006 film in the Tamil language
* Aran, ISO 15294 code for the Nastaliq (Persian and Urdu) script
