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

See 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.