François-Amilcar Aran (12 July 1817, in Bordeaux – 22 February 1861, in Paris) was a French physician.
He studied medicine in Bordeaux and received his doctorate in Paris with a thesis on heart palpitations.
He worked as a deputy physician to Léon Louis Rostan at the Hôtel-Dieu, where he held popular clinical lectures.
[1] With Duchenne de Boulogne, the eponymous "Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy" is named.
[2] He was known for his translation of foreign works, he translated James Henry Bennett’s Practical Treatise on Inflammation of the Uterus and Its Appendages and on the Connexion with other Uterine Diseases as Traité pratique de l'inflammation de l'utérus, and Joseph Skoda’s Abhandlung über Perkussion und Auskultation as Traité de percussion et d’auscultation (1854).