Van Allen

Van Allen may refer to:

People

Given name

• Van Allen Plexico (born 1968), U.S. professor

Surname

• George Van Allen (1890–1937), politician in Alberta, Canada
• James Van Allen (1914–2006), American space scientist
• John Delbert Van Allen (1850–1928), retail dry goods merchant and department store owner
• Mark van Allen (born 1954), American musician
• Shaun Van Allen (born 1967), former hockey player
• Van Allen Plexico (born 1968), science fiction and fantasy author

Places

• Van Allen Range, a mountain range in Oates Land, Antarctica
• Van Allen Building, Clinton, Iowa, US
• Van Allen Hall, University of Iowa
• Van Allen House, Oakland, Bergen, New Jersey, US

Other uses

• Van Allen radiation belt, a torus of energetic charged particles around Earth
• Van Allen Probes, two robotic NASA spacecraft

See also

• Van Allen Belt (band), a Canadian rock band
• All pages with titles beginning with Van Allen
• All pages with titles containing Van Allen
• Allen (disambiguation)
• Van Alen (disambiguation)
• Van Halen (disambiguation)