Bran (disambiguation)

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Bran is the hard outer layer of cereal grains.

Bran may also refer to:

Places

  • Bran, Brașov, a commune in Brașov County, Romania
    • Bran Castle, a medieval German castle in Romania, wrongly associated with Vlad Țepeş ("Dracula")
  • Bran, a village in Golăiești Commune, Iași County, Romania
  • Bran, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département in France
  • Bran (Oroso) [gl], a place in the parish of Os Ánxeles in the Galician council of Oroso, Spain
  • Castell Dinas Brân, a castle in Llangollen, Wales

People

  • Bran Mutimirović, Serbian prince
  • Bran Drobnjak, founder of the Drobnjaci clan
  • Bran Ardchenn, king of Leinster
  • Bran Becc mac Murchado, king of Leinster
  • Bran Ferren, American designer and inventor
  • Guto Nyth Brân, legendary Welsh athlete

Characters

  • Brân the Blessed, a character in Welsh mythology
  • Bran Mak Morn, the last King of the Picts in Robert E. Howard's fiction
  • Bran mac Febail, the protagonist of Immram Brain (The Voyage of Bran), a tale from Irish mythology
  • Bran Stark, a character from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Other

  • Broadband Radio Access Network (BRAN), a European Telecommunications Standards Institute project involving low-cost, high-capacity radio links
  • A nickname (abbreviation) for "Brandon"
  • Accademia della Crusca, also known as "The Bran"; crusca is Italian for bran
  • Bran (exoplanet) (HAT-P-36b), a hot Jupiter-type exoplanet orbiting Tuiren (HAT-P-36)

See also

  • List of Celtic deities: Brân, Celtic for “Raven”, Celtic god
  • Slavic names, see Bron, Bran: to protect, to defend
  • Related Romanian place-names
    • Brănești (disambiguation)
    • Braniște (disambiguation)
    • Braniștea (disambiguation)
  • Branle, Baroque dance (Spanish form)
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