Ban

Ban may refer to:

Ban (law), a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship
The imperial ban, a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
Ban (title), a noble title which was used in south-eastern Europe (Croatia, Bosnia and Hungary)
Ban (information), a logarithmic unit of information or weight of evidence
Ban (mythology), a king from Arthurian legend
Ban (deodorant), a brand name deodorant & antiperspirant
Ban (medieval), a Frankish institution
Ban (Chinese:班), a Chinese surname
Ban (plural: bani), a coin, the 1/100 part of a Romanian leu or Moldovan leu
Muban, or Ban for short, the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand
Another name for the paiban, a clapper used in Chinese music

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.

People
Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
Shigeru Ban, a Japanese architect
Oana Ban

Fictional characters
Akaza BanBan, nicknamed Ban, a character in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
Ban Mido, a main character of the GetBackers series

See also

BAN
Bann
Banner
Banning
Block (internet)
Banhammer

Translation

The word "Ban" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Hungarian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese.

Translation(s) in other languages: Bulgarian: Бан (пояснение), German: Ban (Begriffsklärung), Italian: BAN, Ripuarian: BAN (Watt ėßß datt?), Russian: Бан, Slovenian: Ban (razločitev).