Ban

Ban, or BAN, may refer to:

Law[edit]

Ban (law), a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship, being denied from entering or using the place/item
- Imperial ban (Reichsacht), a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
Ban (medieval), the sovereign's power to command
- King's ban (Königsbann), a royal command or prohibition in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
Herem (disambiguation), a Hebrew word usually translated as "the ban"
A ban could be served on people in apartheid-era South Africa

Ban (surname), a Chinese surname
Ban (Korean name), a Korean surname and element in given names
- Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
King Ban, a king from the Matter of Britain
Ban (title), a noble title used in Central and Southeastern Europe (Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Hungary)
- Banate of Bosnia
- Ban of Croatia
Matija Ban, a Croatian poet
Oana Ban, a Romanian artistic gymnast
Shigeru Ban, a Japanese architect
Y Ban (real name Phạm Thị Xuân Ban), a Vietnamese writer

Ban (Internet), the banning of individual users from websites
Body Area Network, a wireless network of wearable computing devices
IP address blocking, a block set up by a server or website that blocks requests originating from particular IP addresses or ranges of addresses
Stealth banning or shadow banning, a practice used in managing online communities

Balinese language (ISO 639-2 and -3 code "ban"), spoken in Indonesia
BAN, the National Rail code for Banbury railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK
BAN, the Chapman code for Banffshire, historic county in Scotland
BAN, the IOC code for Bangladesh at the Olympics
BAN, the IATA code for Basongo Airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

An alternate spelling for "bann" as in banns of marriage
Paiban, a clapper used in Chinese music, alternately called BAN)
Ban (unit), a logarithmic unit of information or weight of evidence
Ban (deodorant), a brand name deodorant & antiperspirant
Ban (plural: bani), a coin, the 1/100 part of a Romanian leu or Moldovan leu
"Ban" (song), a 2021 single by Sakurazaka46
Basel Action Network
British Approved Name, for a pharmaceutical substance
Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic, BAN logic, used to analyse authentication protocols
Muban, or Ban for short, the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand
"B.A.N." (Atlanta), an episode of American TV series Atlanta
"B.A.N.", a song by Saweetie