Nan

Nan or NAN may refer to:

Places

China

• Nan County, Yiyang, Hunan, China
• Nan Commandery, historical commandery in Hubei, China

Thailand

• Nan province
  • Nan, Thailand, the administrative capital of Nan province
• Nan River

People

Given name

• Nan A. Talese (born 1933), American retired editor
• Nan Achnas (born 1963), Indonesian film director
• Nan Agle (1905-2006), American children's book writer
• Nan Allely, Irish former lawn- and indoor bowler
• Nan Aron (born 1948), American lawyer
• Nan Aspinwall (1880–1964), American oriental dancer, horsewoman, sharpshooter, and roper
• Nan Aye Khine (born 1976), Burmese weightlifter
• Nan B. Frank (1886–1980), American social worker and women's suffrage leader
• Nan Baird (1911–1993), Scottish amateur golfer
• Nan Baker (born 1954), American Republican politician
• Nan Bangs McKinnell (1913–2012), American ceramicist and educator
• Nan Bentzen Skille (born 1945), Norwegian biographer and columnist
• Nan Bernstein Ratner, American professor and board-recognized specialist in child language disorders
• Nan Blair (1891–1944), American screenwriter and literary agent
• Nan Bosler (born 1935), Australian community activist and advocate for young people, the elderly, and people with disabilities
• Nan Braunton (1895–1978), British actress
• Nan Brooks, American children's book illustrator
• Nan Campbell (1926−2013), American politician
• Nan Chauncy (1900–1970), British-born Australian children's writer
• Nan Cohen (born 1968), American poet and teacher
• Nan Cross (1928–2007), South African anti-apartheid and anti-conscription activist
• Nan Cuz (1927–2019), German–Guatemalan painter
• Nan Dieter-Conklin (1926–2014), American radio astronomer
• Nan Dirk de Graaf (born 1958), Dutch sociologist
• Nan Doak-Davis (born 1962), American former long-distance runner
• Nan Dunbar (1928–2005), Scottish academic
• Nan Fairbrother (1913–1971), English writer and lecturer on landscape and land use
• Nan Fry (1945–2016), American poet
• Nan Giese (1922–2012), Australian leader in education and the visual and performing arts
• Nan Gindele (1910–1992), American athlete
• Nan Goldin (born 1953), American photographer and activist
• Nan Green (1904–1984), British communist
• Nan Grey (1918–1993), American film actress
• Nan Grogan Orrock (born 1943), American member of the Georgia House of Representatives and State Senator
• Nan Halperin (1898–1963), Russian-born American singing comedian
• Nan Hayworth (born 1959), American ophthalmologist and former U.S. Representative from New York's 19th Congressional District
• Nan Hoover (1931–2008), Dutch/American-expatriate artist
• Nan Hunt (1918–2015), Australian children's writer
• Nan Hutton (1917–1984), Australian journalist, columnist, and writer
• Nan Inger Östman (1923–2015), Swedish author of children's literature
• Nan Ino Cooper, 10th Baroness Lucas (1880–1958), British nurse and educator
• Nan Joyce (1940–2018), Irish Travellers' rights activist
• Nan Kelley (born c. 1965), American former Miss Mississippi (1985)
• Nan Kempner (1930–2005), American New York socialite
• Nan Kinross (1926–2021), New Zealand nurse and nursing academic
• Nan Knighton, American poet, playwright, and lyricist
• Nan Kyay Ngon (born 1987), Burmese footballer
• Nan Laird (born 1943), American professor of public health
• Nan Lawson Cheney (1897–1985), Canadian painter and medical artist
• Nan Leslie (1926–2000), American actress
• Nan Levinson (born 1949), American writer, journalist, and teacher
• Nan Lurie (1906–1985), American printmaker and engraver
• Nan Marie Jokerst, American professor of electrical- and computer engineering
• Nan Marriott-Watson (1899–1982), British character actress and Broadway theatre performer
• Nan Martin (1927–2010), American actress and comedian
• Nan Mason (1896–1982), American painter and photographer
• Nan McDonald (1921–1974), Australian poet and editor
• Nan McDonald, Canadian candidate in the Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 1984 Canadian federal election
• Nan McKay (1892–1986), Métis librarian
• Nan Melville (1949–2022), American photographer
• Nan Merriman (1920–2012), American operatic mezzo-soprano
• Nan Moe Moe Htwe (born 1983), Burmese politician
• Nan Murphy, Canadian candidate in the Liberal-Progressive Party candidates in the 1953 Manitoba provincial election
• Nan Ni Ni Aye (born 1969), Burmese politician
• Nan Nyunt Swe (1923–2010), Burmese writer
• Nan Peete (born 1938), American Episcopal priest
• Nan Phelps (1904–1990), American folk artist
• Nan Rae (born 1944), Scottish former competitive swimmer
• Nan Ribera (born 1975), Spanish retired footballer
• Nan Rich (born 1942), American member of the Florida Senate and former member of the House of Representatives
• Nan C. Robertson (1926–2009), American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and instructor in journalism
• Nan Ryan (1936–2017), American writer of romance novels
• Nan Sandar Hla Htun (born 1993), Burmese actress, model, and former beauty queen
• Nan Sheets (1885–1976), American painter, printmaker, and museum director
• Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), Scottish Modernist writer and poet
• Nan Su Yati Soe (born 1987), Burmese actress, model, singer, and TV host
• Nan Thuzar Win (born 1981), Burmese politician
• Nan Tom Teaimín de Búrca, Irish traditional sean-nós singer
• Nan Wood Honeyman, (1881–1970), American first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Oregon
• Nan Youngman (1906–1995), English painter and educationalist

Chinese name

• Nan Geng, a king of the Shang dynasty of ancient China
• Nan Hanchen (1895–1967), Chinese governor
• Nan Hu, Chinese physician-scientist, molecular geneticist, and cancer epidemiologist
• Nan Huai-Chin (1918–2012), Chinese Buddhist monk, religious scholar, teacher, and writer
• Nan Lin (born 1938), Chinese professor of sociology
• Nan Qi (artist) (born 1960), Chinese artist
• Nan Rendong (1945–2017), Chinese astronomer of Manchu descent
• Nan Song (disambiguation)
• Nan Xiaoheng (born 1995), Chinese footballer
• Nan Yunqi (born 1993), Chinese football player
• Nan Zhang (actress) (born 1986), Chinese-American actress
• King Nan of Zhou (r. 314–256 BC), last ruler of the Chinese Zhou dynasty
• Luo Nan (born 1986), Chinese swimmer
• Sima Nan (born 1956), Chinese television pundit and journalist
• Song Nan (born 1990), Chinese figure skater
• Wang Nan (disambiguation)
• Yu Nan (born 1978), Chinese actress
• Zhang Nan (disambiguation)
• Zhou Nan (born 1927), Chinese politician and diplomat

Family name

• Nan (surname) (南), Chinese surname
• Mohd Fauzi Nan (born 1980), Malaysian football player

Nickname

• Nan Britton (1896–1991), mistress of President Warren G. Harding
• Nannerl O. Keohane (born 1940), American political theorist and former president of Wellesley College and Duke University
• Nan Merriman (1920–2012), American operatic singer

Fictional people

• Nan (American Horror Story)

Other

• English familiar term for grandmother

Arts and entertainment

• Nan, a play by the English poet John Masefield, first produced in 1908, also known as The Tragedy of Nan
• Nan, nickname of the character Joanie Taylor, from the Catherine Tate Show

Organisations

• National Action Network, American civil rights organization
• Nishnawbe Aski Nation
• Northern Access Network, an unlicensed television system in Canada launched in the late 1970s by David Brough

Science and technology

• NaN (not a number), used in computer arithmetic and defined in the IEEE floating-point standard
• NaN (congress), 20th Chaos Communication Congress in 2003
• NAN-190, a drug and research chemical widely used in scientific studies
• Near-me area network, a communication network that focuses on wireless communication among devices in close proximity
• Neighborhood Aware Networking, in Android O
• NMDA Antagonist Neurotoxicity, a potential form of brain damage
• Sodium azide, a chemical compound with the formula NaN₃

Other uses

• News Agency of Nigeria
• Norwegian Air Norway
• Southern Min (ISO 639-3 language code nan), a language originated from China
• Nadi International Airport (IATA code NAN), Fiji
• Tandyr nan, Uzbek flatbread
• Naan, flatbread

See also

• Naan (disambiguation)