Van (disambiguation)

Van (disambiguation)

A Van is a road vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people.

Van may also refer to:

Vehicles

* Goods van, a boxcar rail vehicle
* Brake van or guard's van, a caboose, the last rail vehicle in a train

Abbreviations

* Value-added network, as used in Electronic Data Interchange
* Van Speelautomaten Branche-Organisatie, the Dutch branch of EUROMAT
* Vehicle Area Network, an electronic communications network that interconnects components inside vehicles
* VAN method, an experimental earthquake prediction method
* The country code for Vanuatu
* Vancomycin, an antibiotic
* Voluntary Arts Network, the UK and Republic of Ireland development agency for the voluntary arts and crafts
* Voter Activation Network, a voter database used by the US Democratic Party.

Places

In Turkey

* Van, Turkey
* Van Province
* Lake Van

In Britain

* Van, Caerphilly
* Van, Llanidloes

In the United States

* Van, Texas
* Van, West Virginia
* Van, Arkansas
* Van, Kentucky
* Van, Michigan
* Van, Missouri
* Van, Ohio
* Van, Oregon
* Van, Pennsylvania
* Van, Utah
* Van, West Virginia
* Van, Virginia

People

Real people

* Van Cliburn, a pianist
* Van Hansis, an actor
* Van Heflin, an actor
* Van Johnson, an actor
* Van Morrison (born 1945), an Irish musician
* Van Nelson (born 1945), an American long-distance runner
* Van Tiffin, former Alabama Crimson Tide placekicker

Fictional characters

* Van (Gun X Sword), main characters of the Japanese anime "Gun X Sword"
* Van (Chrono Cross), a character from the PlayStation game "Chrono Cross"
* Van Slanzar de Fanel, a character from the Japanese anime "The Vision of Escaflowne"
* Van, a character in the 2006 animated Pixar film, "Cars (film)"

* Van Flyheight (more correctly romanised as Freiheit in the Japanese version), a character from the anime Zoids.

* Van Wilder, the protagonist of the 2002 comedy film "National Lampoon's Van Wilder."
* Van Montgomery, a fictional character on "Reba"

Other uses

* Van (Dutch), a Dutch preposition meaning "of" or "from the place of"
* Van (music), a Swedish musical group active in the late 1990s
* Los Van Van, a Cuban musical group
* Turkish Van, a breed of cat
* Van Halen, A rock band

ee also

* Van Pelt (disambiguation)
* Vanir, name of one of the two groups of gods in Norse mythology
* Vans, a brand of shoes
* "Vans" (song), by the rap group The Pack
*Tussenvoegsel in Dutch linguistics, is a word between a first name and last name.


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