Ban, or BAN, may refer to:

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 Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ziad Tariq, Iraqi psychiatric (1991–2025) 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, 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 BAN, the ISO provincial code for Bataan, Philippines

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), 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), an episode of the American TV series Atlanta "B.A.N.", a song by Saweetie

Fictional characters Ban (The Seven Deadly Sins), a character in the manga series The Seven Deadly Sins Ban Mido, a character in the manga series GetBackers BanBan Akaza, nicknamed Ban, a character in the television series Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger

See also

Bann (disambiguation) Banned (disambiguation) Banning (disambiguation) Block (disambiguation)