Aran

Aran may refer to:

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