Rand

Rand may refer to:

Money and business

 * South African rand, the nation's unit of currency
 * Krugerrand, South African gold coin
 * Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing, type of licensing used in the context of standardisation processes
 * Rand formula, formula in Canadian labour law
 * Randlord, term used to denote the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase
 * Sperry Rand, an American technology company

Places

 * Rand, New South Wales, small town in Australia
 * Rand, Lincolnshire, small village in Lincolnshire, England
 * Brussels Periphery (Flemish territory around the city called Rand rond Brussel in Dutch, commonly shortened to de Rand)

South Africa

 * Witwatersrand, escarpment running through Gauteng region, South Africa; commonly shortened to the Rand (die Rand in Afrikaans), and associated urban area (Greater Johannesburg)
 * East Rand, urban eastern part of the Witwatersrand
 * West Rand, urban western part of the Witwatersrand
 * Randburg, area in Gauteng province
 * Midrand, area in Gauteng province
 * Randfontein, a town in Gauteng province

United States

 * Randsburg, California
 * Rand, Colorado, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado
 * Rand, Texas, an unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas
 * Rand, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia

People

 * Rand (given name)
 * Rand (surname)
 * Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist and philosopher
 * Rand Paul, American politician and physician.
 * Rand (Robotech), character from the fictional Third Robotech War
 * Rand al'Thor, main protagonist in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
 * Paul Rand, American art director and graphic designer

Organizations

 * RAND Corporation, an American think tank
 * Ayn Rand Institute, an American think tank
 * Rand Refinery, the world's largest gold refinery
 * Remington Rand, American computer firm and general manufacturer
 * Ingersoll-Rand, diversified American industrial firm
 * Rand McNally, American map publisher and printer
 * Sperry Rand, American equipment and electronics company
 * Rand Club, the oldest members club in Johannesburg
 * Rand Afrikaans University, a defunct university that is now part of the University of Johannesburg

Science and technology

 * rand, any of a number of pseudorandom number generator functions in various programming languages
 * Rand index, technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters
 * R Andromedae (R And), a variable star
 * Rand Airport, an airport near Johannesburg