This is part of the given name of Indian actor Uday Kiran (translates to 'rays of the morning'). Also, there is a film production house known as Usha Kiran or Usha Kiron (which translates as 'rays of dawn'). The Indian variant is pronounced ki-RUN.
Kiran Hayes is one of the all-powerful Billings Girls in the first four novels in Kate Brian's Private series.
― Anonymous User 12/27/2007
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The Indian-born novelist Kiran Desai became the youngest woman to win the Man Booker literature prize with her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, in 2006.
Kiran Shaw is a scale double in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Peter Jackson, not those awful animated ones where Gollum looks like a frog) and is also the queen's servant in The Chronicles of Narnia movie.