Bran is the hard outer layer of cereal grains.

Bran may also refer to:

Places

Bran, Brașov, a commune in Brașov County, Romania

• Bran Castle, a medieval German castle in Romania, wrongly associated with Vlad Țepeş ("Dracula")

• Bran, a village in Golăiești Commune, Iași County, Romania

• Bran, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département in France

• , a place in the parish of Os Ánxeles in the Galician council of Oroso, Spain

• Castell Dinas Brân, a castle in Llangollen, Wales

People

• Bran Mutimirović, Serbian prince

• Bran Drobnjak, founder of the Drobnjaci clan

• Bran Ardchenn, king of Leinster

• Bran Becc mac Murchado, king of Leinster

• Bran Ferren, American designer and inventor

• Guto Nyth Brân, legendary Welsh athlete

Characters

• Brân the Blessed, a character in Welsh mythology

• Bran Mak Morn, the last King of the Picts in Robert E. Howard's fiction

• Bran mac Febail, the protagonist of Immram Brain (The Voyage of Bran), a tale from Irish mythology

• Bran Stark, a character from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Other

• Broadband Radio Access Network (BRAN), a European Telecommunications Standards Institute project involving low-cost, high-capacity radio links

• A nickname (abbreviation) for "Brandon"

• Accademia della Crusca, also known as "The Bran"; crusca is Italian for bran

• Bran (exoplanet) (HAT-P-36b), a hot Jupiter-type exoplanet orbiting Tuiren (HAT-P-36)

See also

• List of Celtic deities: Brân, Celtic for “Raven”, Celtic god

• Slavic names, see Bron, Bran: to protect, to defend

Related Romanian place-names

• Brănești (disambiguation)

• Braniște (disambiguation)

• Braniștea (disambiguation)

• Branle, Baroque dance (Spanish form)