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'''Ban''', or '''BAN''', may refer to:

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== Law ==
* [[Ban (law)]], a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship, being denied from entering or using the place/item
** [[Imperial ban]] (''Reichsacht''), a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
* [[Ban (medieval)]], the sovereign's power to command
** [[King's ban]] (''Königsbann''), a royal command or prohibition in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
* [[Herem (disambiguation)]], a Hebrew word usually translated as "the ban"
* A ban or "[[banning order]]" could be served on people in apartheid-era South Africa

== Internet ==
* [[Ban (Internet)]], the banning of individual users from websites
* [[Body Area Network]], a wireless network of wearable computing devices
* [[IP ban]], a block set up by a server or website that blocks requests originating from particular IP addresses or ranges of addresses
* [[Shadow ban]] or stealth ban, a practice used in managing online communities

== People ==
* [[Ban (Chinese surname)]], a Chinese surname
* [[Ban (Korean name)]], a Korean surname and element in given names
** [[Ban Ki-moon]], United Nations Secretary-General
* [[King Ban]], a king from the Matter of Britain
* [[Ban (title)]], a noble title used in Central and Southeastern Europe (Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Hungary)
** [[Ban of Bosnia]]
** [[Ban of Croatia]]
* [[Lynn Ban]] (1973–2025), Singapore-born jewelry designer
* [[Marijan Ban]] (born 1963), Croatian musician, frontman of the rock band ''Daleka obala''
* [[Matija Ban]] (1818–1903), Serbo-Croatian poet
* [[Mitrofan Ban]] (1841–1920), Serbian-Montenegrin cleric
* [[Nenad Ban]] (born 1966), Croatian biochemist
* [[Oana Ban]] (born 1986), Romanian artistic gymnast
* [[Olga Ban]] (1926–1943), Croatian partisan
* [[Shigeru Ban]] (born 1957), Japanese architect
* [[Y Ban]] (born 1961), real name Phạm Thị Xuân Ban, Vietnamese writer
* [[Zoran Ban]] (born 1973), Croatian football player

== 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
* Ban, an alternate name of [[Ben, Iran|Ben]], a city in Iran
* [[Ban, Iran]], a village in Markazi Province, Iran
* Ban, a village in [[Bănișor]] Commune, Sălaj County, Romania
* [[Ban (river)]], a river in Sălaj County, Romania
* Ban, habitation in Thai [[muban]]
* Ban, a settlement in [[Sarawak]], Malaysia
* [[Ban, Kubu, Karangasem]], a village in Bali
* [[Bans, Raebareli]], a village in Uttar Pradesh, India

== Codes ==
* [[Balinese language]] (ISO 639-2 and -3 code "ban"), spoken in Indonesia
* BAN, the National Rail code for [[Banbury railway station]] in the county of Oxfordshire, UK
* BAN, the Chapman code for [[Banffshire]], historic county in Scotland
* BAN, the IOC code for [[Bangladesh at the Olympics]]
* BAN, the IATA code for [[Basongo Airport]] in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

== Other ==
* An alternate spelling for "bann" as in [[banns of marriage]]
* [[Paiban]], a clapper used in Chinese music, alternately called BAN)
* [[Ban (unit)]], a logarithmic unit of information or weight of evidence
* [[Ban (deodorant)]], a brand name deodorant & antiperspirant
* Ban (plural: ''bani''), a coin, the 1/100 part of a [[Romanian leu]] or [[Moldovan leu]]
* [[Ban (song)|"Ban" (song)]], a 2021 single by Sakurazaka46
* [[Basel Action Network]]
* [[British Approved Name]], for a pharmaceutical substance
* [[Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic]], BAN logic, used to analyze authentication protocols
* [[Muban]], or Ban for short, is the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand
* [[B.A.N. (Atlanta)|"B.A.N." (Atlanta)]], an episode of the American TV series ''Atlanta''
* "B.A.N.", a song by [[Saweetie discography|Saweetie]]

== Fictional characters ==
* Akaza BanBan, nicknamed Ban, a character in ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]''
* [[Ban Mido]], a main character of the ''GetBackers'' series
* Ban: Fox's Sin of Greed, a sin from [[The Seven Deadly Sins (2014 TV series)|'' The Seven Deadly Sins'' (2014 TV series)]]

== See also ==
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* {{Lookfrom|Ban}}
* {{Lookfrom|BAN}}
* [[Bann (disambiguation)]]
* [[Banned (disambiguation)]]
* [[Banning (disambiguation)]]
* [[Block (disambiguation)]]

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