# Ban

Ban, or BAN, may refer to:

## Law

* 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 or "banning order" could be served on people in apartheid-era South Africa

## Internet

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

## People

* Ban (Chinese 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)
** Ban of Bosnia
** Ban of Croatia
* Lynn Ban (1973–2025), Singapore-born jewelry designer
* Marijan Ban (born 1963), Croatian musician, frontman of the rock band Daleka obala
* Matija Ban (1818–1903), Serbo-Croatian poet
* Mitrofan Ban (1841–1920), Serbian-Montenegrin cleric
* Nenad Ban (born 1966), Croatian biochemist
* Oana Ban (born 1986), Romanian artistic gymnast
* Olga Ban (1926–1943), Croatian partisan
* Shigeru Ban (born 1957), Japanese architect
* Y Ban (born 1961), real name Phạm Thị Xuân Ban, Vietnamese writer
* Zoran Ban (born 1973), Croatian football player

## Places

* Ban, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso
* Bans, Jura, a commune in eastern France
* Ban, Murree, a village and UC of Rawalpindi District, Pakistan
* Ban, an alternate name of Ben, a city in Iran
* Ban, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
* Ban, a village in Bănișor Commune, Sălaj County, Romania
* Ban (river), a river in Sălaj County, Romania
* Ban, habitation in Thai muban
* Ban, a settlement in Sarawak, Malaysia
* Ban, Kubu, Karangasem, a village in Bali
* Bans, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India

## Codes

* 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

## Other

* 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 analyze authentication protocols
* Muban, or Ban for short, is the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand
* "B.A.N." (Atlanta), an episode of the American TV series Atlanta
* "B.A.N.", a song by Saweetie

## Fictional characters

* Akaza BanBan, nicknamed Ban, a character in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
* Ban Mido, a main character of the GetBackers series
* Ban: Fox's Sin of Greed, a sin from The Seven Deadly Sins (2014 TV series)