Ban may refer to:

• Ban (law), a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship
• The imperial ban, a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
• Ban (information), a logarithmic unit of information or weight of evidence
• Ban (musical instrument) (板), a wooden clapper (musical instrument) used in traditional Chinese music
• Ban (mythology), a king from Arthurian legend
• Ban (title), a noble title which was used in various Balkan countries
• Ban (deodorant), a brand name deodorant & antiperspirant
• Ban (cabbage), a brand of cabbage
• Ban (Chinese:班), a Chinese surname
• Ban (plural: bani), a coin, the 1/100 part of a Romanian leu or Moldovan leu
• Ban et arrière ban, collection of nobles summoned for military service in France in the Middle Ages
• Ban, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso
• Bans, Jura, a commune in eastern France
• Muban, or Ban for short, the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand

People

• Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
• Shigeru Ban, a Japanese architect

Fictional characters

• Ban, a fictional character in the Bleach franchise
• Akaza BanBan, nicknamed Ban, a character in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
• Ban Mido, a main character of the GetBackers series
• Oana Ban

See also

• BAN
• Bann
• Banner
• Banning
• Block (internet)
• Banhammer