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• In a university, a dean is often the head of a division, faculty, college, or school.
• In a school, a dean may have a counseling role and enforce discipline.
• In diplomacy, the title Dean of the Diplomatic Corps is sometimes given to the most senior ambassador in a country's diplomatic corps.
• In politics, the title Dean of the House is sometimes given to the most senior member of a country's legislature.
• In a cathedral or other collegiate church, the dean is the chief resident clergyman, the head of the chapter of canons.
• In the Roman Catholic Church, a dean is responsible for a number of parishes within his diocese. In the Church of England, this official is called a 'rural dean.'

In geography, Dean is a common place name, meaning 'valley'.

• Dean, Bedfordshire
• Dean, Cumbria
• Dean, Devon
• Dean, Dorset
• Dean, Hampshire
• Dean, Oxfordshire
• Dean, Somerset
• Dean Prior , Devon
• Dean Row , Greater Manchester
• Deane, Greater Manchester
• Deane, Hampshire
• East Dean, East Sussex
• East Dean, Hampshire
• East Dean, West Sussex
• Forest of DeanThe (Royal) Forest of Dean is a region in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is a roughly triangular area bounded by the River Wye to the west and north, the River Severn to the south, and the City of Gloucester to the east. It is characterised by, GloucestershireGloucestershire is a ceremonial and administrative county in southwest England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire of the Forest of Dean. The county town is Gloucester, and
• Hedgerley & DeanHedgerley & Dean is a parish in south Buckinghamshire, England. It is comprised of the village of Hedgerley and the hamlet of Dean . The parish is located two miles to the west of Gerrards Cross, four miles south east of Beaconsfield. The village name 'He, BuckinghamshireBuckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks is a county in south central England. The county town is Aylesbury. Buckinghamshire is divided into four districts: Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe. The ceremonial county (which is based on the post- 19
• West Dean, Hampshire
• West Dean, West Sussex

There are some notable people who are referred to by the name "Dean".

• Howard DeanHoward Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is a Democratic politician who served as Governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003. Dean was serving as Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, a part-time position, when Governor Richard A. Snelling died of a heart atta was a presidential candidate in 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co elections, and former Vermont governor.
• Dean MartinDean Martin ( June 7, 1917 December 25, 1995) was an American film actor and singer. Biography Born Dino Paul Crocetti into an Italian-American family in Steubenville, Ohio, he left school at age sixteen and had a variety of jobs including that of prizefi was a musician, and member of the Rat PackThe Rat Pack was a nickname given to a group of 1950s entertainers, which included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford. The Rat Pack often performed in Las Vegas and were part of the reason that Las Vegas became such
• Dean Torrence was part of the musical group Jan and Dean
• James Dean was an iconographic actor
• Dean Allen is lead developer of Textpattern, a CMS and Blog software. He is also the co-founder of TextDrive, a web hosting company.