Tiran

Tiran may refer to:

Places

• Tiran and Karvan County, county in Isfahan Province, Iran, with its capital Tiran
• Tiran, Iran, a city in Isfahan Province, Iran
• Tiran, Kerman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Tiran, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
• Tiran, Mazandaran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Tiran, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Straits of Tiran, Red Sea
• Tiran Island, administered by Egypt in the Straits of Tiran. To be transferred to Saudi Arabia pending Egyptian parliament ratification.

Persons

First name / given name

• Tiran of Armenia, a 4th-century AD king of Armenia
• Tiran Alles, Sri Lankan businessmen, politician and MP
• Tiran Nersoyan (1904–1989), Armenian Apostolic Church clergyman, Patriarch-elect of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem briefly in 1957-1958
• Tiran Porter (born 1948), American bass and guitar player, vocalist and composer, member of The Doobie Brothers

Family name

• Itay Tiran (born 1980), Israeli stage and screen actor
• Virgil Tiran, Chicago-based American real estate developer
• Irena Yebuah Tiran (born 1974), Slovenian mezzo-soprano opera singer of Ghana descent

Others

• Tiran tank, Israeli modification of T-54, T-55 and T-62 tanks

See also

• Tirana, capital city of Albania
• Tirano, Italian municipality in Lombardy
• Diran (disambiguation)