Rand

Rand may refer to:

Money and business

• South African rand, the nation's unit of currency
• Krugerrand, South African gold coin
• Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing, type of licensing used in the context of standardisation processes
• Rand formula, formula in Canadian labour law
• Randlord, term used to denote the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase
• Sperry Rand, an American technology company

Places

• Rand, New South Wales, small town in Australia
• Rand, Lincolnshire, small village in Lincolnshire, England
• Brussels Periphery (Flemish territory around the city called Rand rond Brussel in Dutch, commonly shortened to de Rand)

South Africa

• Witwatersrand, escarpment running through Gauteng region, South Africa; commonly shortened to the Rand (die Rand in Afrikaans), and associated urban area (Greater Johannesburg)
  • East Rand, urban eastern part of the Witwatersrand
  • West Rand, urban western part of the Witwatersrand
• Randburg, area in Gauteng province
• Midrand, area in Gauteng province
• Randfontein, a town in Gauteng province

United States

• Randsburg, California
• Rand, Colorado, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado
• Rand, Texas, an unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas
• Rand, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia

People

• Rand (given name)
• Rand (surname)
• Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist and philosopher
• Rand Paul, American politician and physician.
• Rand (Robotech), character from the fictional Third Robotech War
• Rand al'Thor, main protagonist in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
• Paul Rand, American art director and graphic designer

Organizations

• RAND Corporation, an American think tank
• Ayn Rand Institute, an American think tank
• Rand Refinery, the world's largest gold refinery
• Remington Rand, American computer firm and general manufacturer
• Ingersoll-Rand, diversified American industrial firm
• Rand McNally, American map publisher and printer
• Sperry Rand, American equipment and electronics company
• Rand Club, the oldest members club in Johannesburg
• Rand Afrikaans University, a defunct university that is now part of the University of Johannesburg

Science and technology

• rand, any of a number of pseudorandom number generator functions in various programming languages
• Rand index, technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters
• R Andromedae (R And), a variable star
• Rand Airport, an airport near Johannesburg

1. RAND Corporation
2. Ayn Rand
3. Rand Paul
4. South African rand
5. Rand index
6. Ingersoll Rand
7. Remington Rand
8. East Rand
9. Objectivism
10. Randers
11. Rands
12. Randal
13. Paul Rand
14. Andre Rand
15. Trane Technologies
16. West Rand
17. Janice Rand
18. Financial rand
19. Sally Rand
20. Rand House