Stan

Stan or STAN may refer to:

People

 * Stan (given name), a list of people with the given name
 * Stan Laurel (1890–1965), English comic actor, part of duo Laurel and Hardy
 * Stan (surname), a Romanian surname
 * Stan! (born 1964), American author, cartoonist and games designer Steven Brown
 * Stan (singer) (born 1987), Greek singer born Stratos Antipariotis

Fictional characters

 * Stan Marsh, in the animated TV series South Park
 * Stan, an alligator in the 2006 Disney animated film The Wild
 * Grunkle Stan, in the animated TV series Gravity Falls
 * Stan, in the 2009 American fantasy comedy movie 17 Again
 * Stan, from the film Crawl
 * Stan Beeman, in the TV series The Americans
 * Stan Carter, in the British soap opera EastEnders
 * Stan Edgar, in the Amazon Prime Video series The Boys
 * Stan Gable, in the Revenge of the Nerds film series played by Ted McGinley
 * Stan Ogden, in the British soap opera Coronation Street
 * Stan Pembroke, in the American sitcom television series Charles in Charge
 * Stan Smith (American Dad!), in the animated TV series American Dad!
 * Stan (Monkey Island), a salesman in the Monkey Island adventure games

Music

 * "Stan" (song), a 2000 song by Eminem, sampling Dido from The Marshall Mathers LP
 * Stan (fan), slang for a fan, often of celebrity culture and sometimes used in a negative way
 * Stan (EP), by Stan Walker, 2018

Science and technology

 * Hurricane Stan, a 2005 hurricane
 * Stanhopea (abbreviation Stan), an orchid genus
 * Stan (dinosaur), a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil found at the Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, US

Technology

 * ST segment, analysis in electrocardiography
 * Stan (service), an Australian streaming service
 * Stan (software), a programming language for statistical inference
 * System Trace Audit Number, a key to uniquely identify a card transaction based on the ISO 8583 standard

Organisations

 * Stan (service), an Australian streaming video service
 * STAN (art-group), a Ukrainian cultural organisation
 * Mayors and Independents (Czech: Starostové a nezávislí), a political party in the Czech Republic
 * Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara, a state college in Indonesia
 * Standard Chartered (stock market symbol), British multinational banking and financial services company

Places

 * Stan, Mirna, a settlement in Slovenia
 * Stan, a village and part of Vítanov in the Czech Republic

Other uses

 * Stan (horse), a British-American Thoroughbred racehorse
 * -stan, a Persian suffix meaning "home of", "place of" or "country"
 * Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian, a proposed language family
 * Stan (administrative unit), a historical administrative unit in Russia