Ban

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
 * 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
 * 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

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

 * Akaza BanBan, nicknamed Ban, a character in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
 * Ban Mido, a main character of the GetBackers series
 * Ban: Fox's Sin of Greed, a sin from  The Seven Deadly Sins (2014 TV series)