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 [1]

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 labour law

See also

• 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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