- Rand
Rand may refer to a number of places, people, organizations, and acronyms:
Places
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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 ofRandsburg, California
* The "Witwatersrand ", a ridge that runs through Gauteng, South Africa, which includes theEast Rand andWest Rand People
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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 ofRand McNally Fictional characters
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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 characterCompanies and organizations
* The
RAND Corporation, an American think tank
* TheAyn 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 printerAbbreviation 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 processOther uses
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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
*Rand index , a technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters
*Rand formula , a formula in Canadian labor lawee also
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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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