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

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 former ophthalmologist

• Rand (Robotech), character from the fictional Third Robotech War

• Rand al'Thor, main protagonist in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

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