Rand
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Rand may refer to a number of places, people, organizations, and acronyms.
Places named Rand include:
- 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
- The Witwatersrand, a ridge that runs through Gauteng, South Africa, which includes the East Rand and West Rand
People named Rand include:
- Ayn Rand, American writer
- Austin L. Rand, Canadian zoologist
- Paul Rand, American graphic designer
- Ivan Rand, Supreme Court of Canada justice who introduced the Rand formula
- William H. Rand, founder of Rand McNally
- Sally Rand, actor and dancer
Fictional characters named Rand include:
- Rand al'Thor, the main character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy fiction series
- Janice Rand, a character in the Star Trek universe
- Atton Rand, a character from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
- a character from the fictional Third Robotech War
Companies and organizations named Rand include:
- The RAND Corporation, 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 or Rand is also used as an abbreviation or acronym for:
- 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
Rand may also refer to the following:
- South African rand, the national currency of South Africa
- 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
