Bhan

Bhan is an Indian Kashmiri Pandit and punjabi saraswat brahmin surname. Notable People with surname :

• Ashok Bhan (born 1950), retired Indian Police Service officer, Director General of Police Intelligence and Director General of Police Prisons
• Gopinath Bhan (1898–1968), also called Bhagwan Gopinath Ji, mystic saint of Kashmir in India
• Maharaj Kishan Bhan, Indian Paediatrician and Clinical Scientist
• Mona Bhan, cultural anthropologist and associate professor of Anthropology at DePauw University
• Pushkar Bhan (1926–2008), radio actor and script writer from Kashmir
• Shereen Bhan (born 1976), Indian journalist and news anchor

See also

In Scottish Gaelic, the word for white is bàn (also bhàn, bhàin), as in:

• An Eala Bhàn ("The White Swan"), a Scottish Gaelic love song composed by Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna during the Battle of the Somme
• Battle of Coille Bhan (Battle of the White Wood) was fought in 1721 near Attadale, in the county of Ross in the Scottish Highlands
• Beinn Bhàn (disambiguation), meaning White Mountain in Gaelic, is a common name, applied to several hills in different parts of Scotland
• Beinn Bhan (Applecross), a mountain in the highlands of Scotland, lying on the Applecross peninsula, on the north side of Loch Kishorn
• Beinn Bhan (Arkaig), a Scottish mountain situated in the Lochaber region of the Highland Council Area
• Binn Bhan, a mountain in County Galway, Ireland, the highest of the Twelve Bens, and the highest peak in Galway
• Leine bhan, ("White Shirt"), a distinctive smock which trangressors of ecclesiastical law in Scotland were at one time obliged to wear

Other names including the word Bhan:

• Takali Bhan, small village in Shrirampur taluka, Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India
• Bhan Syedabad, a small town near Dadu, Dadu District, Sindh, Pakistan