Nan

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Nan or NAN may refer to:

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 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