Nan

Nan or NAN may refer to:

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

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 ), a language originated from China
 * Nadi International Airport (IATA code NAN), Fiji
 * Tandyr nan, Uzbek flatbread
 * Naan, flatbread