Ron

Ron is a shortening of the name Ronald.

Ron or RON may also refer to:

Arts and media

 * Big Ron (EastEnders), a TV character
 * Ron (King of Fighters), a video game character
 * Ron Douglas, the protagonist in Lucky Stiff played by Joe Alasky
 * Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective, a manga series
 * Ron Weasley, a character in Harry Potter.

Language

 * Ron language, spoken in Plat State, Nigeria
 * Romanian language (ISO 639-3 code ron)

Mononym

 * Ron (singer), Rosalino Cellamare (born 1953), Italian singer

Given name

 * Ron (given name)

Surname

 * Dana Ron (born 1964), Israeli computer scientist and professor
 * Elaine Ron (1943-2010), American epidemiologist
 * Emri Ron (1936–2013), Israeli politician
 * Ivo Ron (born 1967), Ecuadorian football player
 * Jason De Ron (born 1973), Australian musician
 * José Ron (born 1981), Mexican actor
 * Liat Ron, actress, dancer and dance instructor
 * Lior Ron (born 1982), Israeli-American film and trailer composer and musician
 * Mercedes Ron (born 1993), Argentine writer
 * Michael Ron (born 1932), Israeli fencer
 * Michael Røn (born 1984), Danish-born Norwegian footballer
 * Moshe Ron (1925-2001), Israeli materials scientist
 * Pan Ron, Cambodian singer and songwriter
 * Ron Ron or Ronald White, American rapper and director
 * Yuval Ron, Israeli musician

Places

 * Ron, Karnataka, a city in India
 * Røn, a village in Vestre Slidre, Norway
 * Ron (river, Vietnam)

Science and technology

 * Gyrodyne RON Rotorcycle, mid-1950s US helicopter
 * Remote online notarization, electronic notarization online
 * Research Octane Number, a standard measure of the performance of a fuel
 * Resilient Overlay Network, an Internet application architecture

Other uses

 * Cyclone Ron, a 1998 cyclone in the South Pacific
 * Rhongomiant, or Ron, King Arthur's lance
 * Romanian leu (ISO 4217 code: RON), the currency of Romania
 * "Ron's Piece", a track from the 1986 Jean-Michel Jarre album Rendez-Vous
 * Rum, ron in Spanish
 * Re-open Nominations, a "none of the above" ballot option
 * Rota Osobogo Naznacheniya (рота особого назначения), a 1940s unit of Russian commando frogmen