Pāvels Murāns (born June 19, 1985) is a Latvian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.

[2] He is a member of Rīga Swimming School, and is coached and trained by Jeļena Solovjova.

[1] Murans also had an opportunity to represent Latvia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing fifty-first in the 100-metre breaststroke.

Murans qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by eclipsing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:04.95 from the Croatian Open Championships in Rijeka.

[3][1] He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympians Jean Luc Razakarivony of Madagascar and Yevgeny Petrashov of Kyrgyzstan.