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Nan or NAN may refer to one of the following.
Places
- Nan Province, Thailand
- Nan, Thailand, its administrative capital
- Nan River in Thailand
- Nan County, in Hunan, China
People
Kings
- King Nan of Zhou (r. 314–256 BC), last ruler of the Chinese Zhou dynasty
First name
- Nanna Nan Britton (1896–1991), who claimed to have been the mistress of President Warren G. Harding
- 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
- Nannerl O. Keohane (born 1940), American political theorist and former president of Wellesley College and Duke University
- Nan Martin (1927–2010), American actress
- Katherine Ann Nan Merriman (born 1920), American operatic singer
- 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
- Luo Nan (born 1986), Chinese swimmer
- Sima Nan (born 1956), Chinese television pundit and journalist
- Song Nan (born 1990), Chinese figure skater
- Wang Nan (table tennis) (born 1978), Chinese table tennis player
- Yu Nan (born 1978), Chinese actress
- Zhang Nan (gymnast) (born 1986), Chinese gymnast
- Zhou Nan (born 1927), Chinese politician and diplomat
Last name
- Nan (surname) (南), Chinese surname
- Nan Huai-Chin (1918–2012), Buddhist teacher in China
- Mohd Fauzi Nan (born 1980), Malaysian football player
Acronyms
- NaN ("Not a Number"), used in computer arithmetic and defined in the IEEE floating-point standard
- Nano Assault Neo, a video game
- NMDA Antagonist Neurotoxicity, also known as Olney's lesions
- National Assembly of Nigeria
- News Agency of Nigeria
- Nick at Nite, an American cable-TV network
- Near-me Area Network
Other
- Nan, a play by the English poet John Masefield, first produced in 1908, also known as The Tragedy of Nan
- Nan, a form of the name Anna and Agnes
- Nan, English familiar term for grandmother, matching Pap (grandfather)
- nan, ISO 639-3 language code for the Southern Min language of China
- NAN, IATA code for Nadi International Airport, Fiji
- nickname of Joannie Taylor, a character from the Catherine Tate Show and various specials
See also
- NAN-190, a drug and research chemical widely used in scientific studies
- Naan, a type of leavened bread
- Nana (disambiguation)
- Nanna (disambiguation)
- Nans (disambiguation)
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