Rand
Rand may refer to a number of places, people, organizations, and acronyms:
Places
The Witwatersrand, ridge that runs through Gauteng, South Africa, which includes the East Rand and West Rand rivers
Rand, New South Wales, small town in Australia
Rand, Lincolnshire, small village in Lincolnshire, England
Rand, California, community in Kern County, California
Rand, Colorado, small unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado
The "Rand Mining District", area in Kern County, California
Randsburg, California
People
Ayn Rand, American writer and philosopher
Austin L. Rand, Canadian zoologist
Ivan Rand, Supreme Court of Canada justice who introduced the "Rand formula"
James Rand, Jr., American industrialist and president of the Remington Rand company
Mary Rand, British athlete and Olympic champion
Paul Rand, American graphic designer
Rand Miller, co-creater of the computer game Myst
Rand Paul, American political activist
Rose Rand, Logician and philosopher, member of the Vienna Circle
Sally Rand, American actress and dancer
Shuli Rand and Michal Batsheva Rand, husband and wife, Israeli actors
William H. Rand, founder of the Rand McNally company
Fictional characters
Rand al'Thor, the main character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy fiction series
Rand (Robotech), a character from the fictional Third Robotech War
Atton Rand, a character from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
Janice Rand, a character in the Star Trek universe
Iron Fist (comics) (Daniel Rand), a Marvel Comics character
Ben Rand, a character from Being There (1979) performed by Melvyn Douglas [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There#Cast.2C_characters_and_their_perceptions]
Companies and organizations
The RAND Corporation, an American think tank
The Ayn Rand Institute, an American think tank
Remington Rand, an American computer firm and general manufacturer
Sperry Rand, an American equipment and electronics company
Ingersoll-Rand, a diversified American industrial firm
Rand McNally, an American map publisher and printer
Rand Worldwide, an engineering and professional services firm
Abbreviation or acronym
In computer science, any of a number of pseudorandom number generator functions
Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing, a type of licensing used during a standardisation process
Other uses
South African rand, the national currency of South Africa (abbreviation: R, ISO-4217-Code: ZAR). The Rand is also widely accepted as currency in Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe
Rand index, a technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters
Rand formula, a formula in Canadian labor law
Translation
The word "Rand" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Polish, Slovak, Swedish, Volapük.
Translation(s) in other languages: Hebrew: ראנד, Lithuanian: Randas, Russian: Ранд.
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