Aryan (disambiguation)

Aryan was a self-designation by Indo-Iranian people.

Aryan or Arya may also refer to:

Ethno-linguistics

 * Indo-Iranians, a prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo-Iranian language which evolved into modern Indo-Iranian languages
 * Indo-Aryan peoples, people speaking the Indo-Aryan languages and historically who spoke the Proto-Indo-Aryan language
 * Iranian peoples, people speaking the Iranian languages and historically who spoke the Proto-Iranian language
 * Arya (Iran), self-designation of early Iranians from Greater Iran
 * Self-designation of the Alans, a group of Iranic nomads from the Eurasian steppe
 * Self-designation of the Iranians in the Avesta
 * Self-designation of the Iranians in the Achaemenid Empire
 * People from Ariana, corresponding to Khorasan during the medieval period
 * Inhabitants of the Sasanian Empire, the name of which in Middle Persian, Eran Shah, means Aryan Empire
 * Proto-Indo-Europeans, in works published in the 19th century and early 20th century describing speakers of Proto-Indo-European language which evolved into modern Indo-European languages
 * Aryan race (dated), a discredited racial grouping popular in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries in Europe
 * Nordic race (dated), a racialist concept called "Nordicism" developed by Ariosophy and later adopted by the Nazis
 * Nordic aliens or Aryan aliens
 * Aryan language (disambiguation)
 * Aryan languages (disambiguation)
 * Aryan religion (disambiguation)

People

 * Arya (name), a Persian and Indian given name (including a list of persons with the name)
 * Aryan (name), a given name and surname that is popular in India and Iran
 * Gabriel Arya (7th century AD), Syriac writer from Arabia

Organizations

 * Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda
 * Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist street gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States
 * Aryan Brotherhood of Texas
 * Aryan Guard, a neo-Nazi group based in Alberta, Canada
 * Aryan Nations, a white supremacist religious organization
 * White Aryan Resistance, a neo-Nazi white separatist organization
 * Aryan Republican Army, a white nationalist terrorist gang

Films

 * The Aryan, 1915 American silent film
 * Aryan (1988 film), a Malayalam film
 * Arya (2004 film), a Telugu Tollywood film starring Allu Arjun
 * Arya 2, a 2009 Telugu film
 * Aryan: Unbreakable, a 2006 Indian film
 * Aarya (film), a 2007 Tamil-language romantic comedy film
 * Aryan (2014 film), a 2014 Kannada-language film
 * Aarya (TV series), 2020 Indian TV series

Places

 * Aryavarta, meaning land of the Aryans, the historic name of Northern India
 * Herat, Afghanistan, a city in Northwest Afghanistan
 * Varian, Iran, a village in Alborz Province, Iran
 * Aryan, Kurdistan, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
 * Aryan, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
 * Arya (urban-type settlement), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Other uses

 * Arya (Buddhism), a concept in Buddhism
 * Arya: A Philosophical Review, a monthly periodical published in India from 1914 to 1921
 * Arya metre, a poetic metre used in Sanskrit and Prakrit verse
 * Aryan FC, an Indian football club founded in 1884
 * Arya F.C., an Iranian football club
 * Aryanism, an ideology of Aryan racial supremacy
 * Aryanization, in Nazism, the expulsion of "non-Aryans"
 * Aryan paragraph, Nazi discriminatory regulation
 * Aryan certificate, Nazi-era document which certified one's membership of the alleged Aryan race
 * Indo-Aryan migrations, part of Indo-European migrations from Proto-Indo-European homeland into Indian subcontinent