Account number may refer to:
- A number used to identify a bank account
- Bank card number, the primary account number found on credit cards and bank cards
- International Bank Account Number, an international standard for identifying bank accounts across national borders
- National identification number, a number used by the governments of many countries as a means of tracking people for the purposes of work, taxation, government benefits, health care, and other governmentally-related functions
Famous quotes containing the words account and/or number:
“Eighteen convicts being hanged in one day ... a woman was crying an account of their execution. A gentleman asked her why she said nineteen, when there had been but eighteen hanged? She replied, “Sir, I did not know you had been reprieved.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
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—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)