RAND

'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 and philosopher

★ Austin L. Rand, Canadian zoologist

★ Mary Rand, British athlete and Olympic champion

★ 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

★ Shuli and Michal Batsheva Rand, husband and wife, Israeli actors

★ Rand Butcher, Intensive Care Nurse, Australia
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

★ Daniel Rand, a Marvel Comics character known as Iron Fist
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 McNally, an American map publisher and printer
'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 (abbreviation: R, ISO-4217-Code: ZAR)

★ Rand index, a technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters

★ Rand formula, a formula in Canadian labor law

★ Rand, Slang for courtesan

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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