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Rand may refer to a number of places, people, organizations, and acronyms:
[edit] Places
- Rand, New South Wales, a small town in Australia
- Rand, Lincolnshire, a small village in Lincolnshire, England
- Rand, Colorado, a small unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, U.S.
- Rand Mining District, an area in Kern County, California, containing, inter alia, the town of Randsburg, California
- The Witwatersrand, a ridge that runs through Gauteng, South Africa, which includes the East Rand and West Rand
[edit] 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 Remington Rand
- Mary Rand, British athlete and Olympic champion
- Paul Rand, American graphic designer
- Rose Rand, Logician and Philosopher, member of the Vienna Circle
- Sally Rand, actor and dancer
- Shuli Rand and Michal Batsheva Rand, husband and wife, Israeli actors
- William H. Rand, founder of Rand McNally
[edit] 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
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[edit] Other uses
- South African rand, the national currency of South Africa (abbreviation: R, ISO-4217-Code: ZAR), the Rand is also wdely accepted as currency in Namibia
- Rand index, a technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters
- Rand formula, a formula in Canadian labor law
[edit] See also
- James Randi, American stage magician and skeptic
- Krugerrand, a South African gold coin
- Randlord, a term used to denote the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase
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