Tan

Tan or TAN may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

 * Black and Tans, a nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence. By extension "Tans" can now also colloquially refer to English or British people in general, especially disparagingly.
 * TAN Books, a Catholic publishing company
 * FC Rubin-TAN Kazan, a Russian professional ice hockey club in Kazan in 1991-94
 * Transportes Aereos Nacionales, an airline based in Honduras known as TAN Airlines

People

 * Tan (surname) (譚), a Chinese surname
 * Chen (surname) (陳), a Chinese surname, pronounced "Tan" in Min Nan languages
 * Laozi, posthumous name "Tan" or "Dān" (聃), philosopher of ancient China
 * Leborgne, nicknamed Tan, a patient of Paul Broca's, on whose autopsy he identified Broca's area
 * TAN (musician) (born 1990), Malaysian pop singer
 * Tan Sağtürk (born 1969), Turkish ballet dancer

China

 * Tan (state), an ancient viscountcy in eastern Shandong Province, China
 * Tai'an railway station (Shandong), China Railway pinyin code TAN

Vietnam

 * Tân An, Bắc Giang Province, a northeastern commune and village
 * Tân An, Long An Province, the capital city of Long An Province, Mekong Delta
 * Tân An Province, a former province of South Vietnam

Elsewhere

 * Tan Track, also known as "The Tan", a running track in Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
 * Tanzania (IOC and FIFA trigram: TAN), a country
 * Taunton Municipal Airport (IATA airport code: ), in Taunton, Massachusetts, US

Science and technology

 * Tan (color), a pale shade of brown
 * Tanning (leather), the process of making leather from hides
 * Tangent (tan), one of the trigonometric functions
 * Ti-6Al-7Nb, a titanium alloy containing aluminum and niobium
 * Total acid number, or TAN, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity
 * Transaction authentication number or TAN, in electronic banking

Biology

 * Tan (goat pattern), a goat color pattern
 * Tanbark, or tan, the bark of certain species of tree
 * Sun tanning, the darkening of skin in response to ultraviolet light
 * Sunless tanning, the darkening of skin without ultraviolet light
 * Tropical ataxic neuropathy

Other uses

 * -tan, a Japanese honorific
 * Tan, an album by the Polish rock band Kult
 * TAN (group), South Korean boy band
 * Tan (newspaper), a newspaper in Turkey
 * Tan (weekly newspaper), a newspaper in Kosovo
 * Irish War of Independence, sometimes called the "Black and Tan war" or "Tan war"
 * Tahn (Armenian թան tʻan), a yoghurt-based drink from the Middle East
 * Tanfana, or Tan, an ancient European goddess
 * Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number (TAN), an Indian tax code
 * TAN, marketing name for Semitan, operates public transport in Nantes, France