Ron

Ron is a shortening of the name Ronald.

Ron or RON may also refer to:

Arts and media

• Big Ron (EastEnders), a TV character
• Ron (King of Fighters), a video game character
• Ron Douglas, the protagonist in Lucky Stiff played by Joe Alasky
• Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective, a manga series
• Ron Weasley, a character in Harry Potter.

Language

• Ron language, spoken in Plat State, Nigeria
• Romanian language (ISO 639-3 code ron)

People

For fictional characters, see § Arts and media.

Mononym

• Ron (singer), Rosalino Cellamare (born 1953), Italian singer

Given name

• Ron (given name)

Surname

• Dana Ron (born 1964), Israeli computer scientist and professor
• Elaine Ron (1943-2010), American epidemiologist
• Emri Ron (1936–2013), Israeli politician
• Ivo Ron (born 1967), Ecuadorian football player
• Jason De Ron (born 1973), Australian musician
• José Ron (born 1981), Mexican actor
• Liat Ron, actress, dancer and dance instructor
• Lior Ron (born 1982), Israeli-American film and trailer composer and musician
• Mercedes Ron (born 1993), Argentine writer
• Michael Ron (born 1932), Israeli fencer
• Michael Røn (born 1984), Danish-born Norwegian footballer
• Moshe Ron (1925-2001), Israeli materials scientist
• Pan Ron, Cambodian singer and songwriter
• Ron Ron or Ronald White, American rapper and director
• Yuval Ron, Israeli musician

Places

• Ron, Karnataka, a city in India
• Røn, a village in Vestre Slidre, Norway
• Ron (river, Vietnam)

Science and technology

• Gyrodyne RON Rotorcycle, mid-1950s US helicopter
• Remote online notarization, electronic notarization online
• Research Octane Number, a standard measure of the performance of a fuel
• Resilient Overlay Network, an Internet application architecture

Other uses

• Cyclone Ron, a 1998 cyclone in the South Pacific
• Rhongomiant, or Ron, King Arthur's lance
• Romanian leu (ISO 4217 code: RON), the currency of Romania
• "Ron's Piece", a track from the 1986 Jean-Michel Jarre album Rendez-Vous
• Rum, ron in Spanish
• Re-open Nominations, a "none of the above" ballot option
• Rota Osobogo Naznacheniya (рота особого назначения), a 1940s unit of Russian commando frogmen

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Ron
• Big Ron (disambiguation)
• Ronn (disambiguation)