Nan
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 Cross (1928–2007), South African anti-apartheid and anti-conscription activist
- Nan Hayworth (born 1959), former U.S. Representative from New York's 19th Congressional District
- Nan Wood Honeyman, (1881–1970), first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Oregon
- Nan Kempner (1930–2005), New York socialite
- Nan Martin (1927–2010), American actress
- Nan Grogan Orrock (born 1943), member of the Georgia House of Representatives and State Senator
- Nan Phelps (1904–1990), American folk artist
- Nan Rich (born 1942), member of the Florida Senate and former member of the House of Representatives
- Nan C. Robertson (1926–2009), Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, author and teacher
- Nan A. Talese (born 1933), American editor
Chinese name
- Nan Huai-Chin (1918–2012), Buddhist teacher in China
- Nan Song (disambiguation)
- 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
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
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
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