Dun (disambiguation)

A dun is a type of fort, and a dull brown-gray color.

Dun or DUN may also refer to:

Places

• Dun, Angus, a civil parish in Scotland
• Dun, Ariège, a commune in southern France
• Dun, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
• Dun, Norway, a village in Trøndelag, Norway
• Dùn, an island of St Kilda, Scotland
• Dün, a range of hills in Thuringia, Germany
• Dun or Doon Valley (Hindi: दून) in the Sivalik hills of northern India
• Dun Bhruichlinn, an Iron Age fort south of Esknish, Islay, Scotland.
• Dun Borrafiach, an Iron Age broch on the island of Skye, Scotland
• Dun Glacier
• Dun Guaidhre, an Iron Age fort southwest of Kilmeny, Islay, Scotland
• Dun Nosebridge, an Iron Age fort southeast of Bridgend, Islay, Scotland
• Dun Ringill, an Iron Age hill fort on the Strathaird peninsula on the island of Skye, Scotland
• Dun Sar, a village in Gatab-e Shomali Rural District, Gatab District, Babol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Dun-le-Poëlier, a commune in central France
• House of Dun, a Scottish estate

People with the name or title

Given name or title

• Consort Dun (1746–1806), Chinese imperial consort
• Dun Deal (born 1986), American record producer and rapper
• Dun Mihaka
• Dun Karm Psaila (1871–1961), Maltese writer and poet
• Dun Mikiel Xerri (1737–1799)

Surname

• Angus Dun (1892–1971), American clergyman and author
• Dennis Dun (born 1952), Chinese–American actor
• Edwin Dun (1848–1931), American agriculturalist
• Jean Dun (died 1735), French opera singer
• Josh Dun (born 1988), American musician and drummer of Twenty One Pilots
• Tan Dun (born 1957), Chinese composer
• William Sutherland Dun (1868–1934), Australian palaeontologist and geologist

Biology

• Dun gene, producing a brownish-gray color in horses and other equidae
• Subimago, or dun, a stage in the life cycle of mayflies, especially an artificial fishing fly tied to imitate one

Computing and technology

• Dial-up networking (DUN,) a dialed connection to the Internet via public telephone lines
  • Dial-up Networking Profile, a Bluetooth computer communications profile

Other uses

• Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS), a unique numeric identifier for businesses
• Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN), the legislative assemblies of Malaysian states
• Dun & Bradstreet, an American credit reporting agency
• Dun comma or enumeration comma, a Chinese punctuation mark
• Dun Cow, a brown bovine; a common motif in English folklore

See also

• Dunn (disambiguation)
• River Dun (disambiguation)
• Duns (disambiguation)