Chan may refer to:
Places
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Chan (commune)
Pouy ( km, ប៉ូយ) is a commune in Ou Chum District in north-east Cambodia. It contains Chan, Kan Saeung, Kreh, Ta Ngach, Svay, Khmaeng, Krala, Kang Kuy villages and has a population of 1,696.[Chan Lake
Chan may refer to:
Places
*Chan (commune), Cambodia
* Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada
People
*Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田)
* Chan Cald ...]
, by
Chan Lake Territorial Park
Chan Lake Territorial Park is a small territorial park in the Northwest Territories of Canada, one of six such parks on the Yellowknife Highway (Hwy #3) and one of 34 parks maintained by the Northwest Territories government under the Territo ...
in Northwest Territories, Canada
People
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Chan (surname) Chan is a non-pinyin romanisation of multiple Chinese surnames, based on different varieties of Chinese.
Among respondents to the 2000 United States Census, Chan was the 12th-most common surname among Asian Pacific Americans, and 459th-most common ...
, romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田)
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Chan Caldwell
Charles Andrew Caldwell (January 6, 1920 – June 14, 2000) was a Canadian football coach who served as the head coach of the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1955. He played college football at Tennessee.
Early life and education
Chan Caldwell was born ...
(1920–2000), Canadian football coach
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Chan Gailey
Thomas Chandler Gailey Jr. (born January 5, 1952) is a former American football coach. Most recently in 2020, he was the offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). Gailey has previously served as the head ...
(born 1952), American football coach
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Chan Kai-kit
Tommy Chan Kai-kit (born 23 March 1950), born Chio Ho-cheong, is a Macanese businessman who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Macau and of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Following the revelation that Chan was the ...
(born 1952), Macanese businessman
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Chan Reec Madut Chan Reec Madut is a judge from South Sudan
South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuëny Thudän), is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, Central ...
, South Sudanese jurist
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Chan Romero
Robert Lee "Chan" Romero (born July 7, 1941) is an American rock and roll performer, best known for his 1959 song, "Hippy Hippy Shake".
Life and career
Romero was born in Billings, Montana, Billings, Montana. His father was of Spanish people, Sp ...
(born 1941), American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and musicians
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Chan Santokhi
Chandrikapersad "Chan" Santokhi ( Sarnami: चान संतोखी; ; born 3 February 1959) is a Surinamese politician and former police officer who is the 9th president of Suriname, since 2020. After winning the 2020 elections, Santokhi ...
(born 1959), President of Suriname and former chief of police
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Bang Chan
Stray Kids (; often abbreviated as SKZ) is a South Korean boy band formed by JYP Entertainment through the 2017 Stray Kids (TV series), reality show of the same name. The group is composed of eight members: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunji ...
(born 1997), member of the South Korean boy band Stray Kids
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Heo Chan
Heo is a family name in Korea.
It is also often spelled as Hur or Huh, or less commonly as Her. In South Korea in 1985, out of a population of between roughly 40 and 45 million, there were approximately 264,000 people surnamed Heo. The name is al ...
(born 1995), member of the South Korean boy band Victon
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Ta Chan
Mam Nai or Mam Nay ( km, ម៉មណៃ, born 1934), '' nom de guerre'' Comrade Chan (), is a Cambodian war criminal and former lieutenant of Santebal, the internal security branch of the Khmer Rouge communist movement, which ruled Democratic K ...
, nom de guerre of Cambodian war criminal Mam Nai
Computing and media
*chan-, an abbreviation for channels in
Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called ''channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and ...
(IRC)
*chan, a common suffix for the title of an
imageboard
An imageboard is a type of Internet forum that focuses on the posting of images, often alongside text and discussion. The first imageboards were created in Japan as an extension of the textboard concept. These sites later inspired the creation of ...
CHAN
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African Nations Championship
The African Nations Championship (french: Championnat d'Afrique des Nations; abbreviated as CHAN), known as the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship for sponsorship purposes, is a biennial African national association football tourname ...
or ''Championnat d'Afrique des Nations'' (CHAN), an African football tournament
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CHAN-DT
CHAN-DT (channel 8), branded on-air as Global BC (formerly British Columbia Television or BCTV), is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of the Global Television Network. Owned and oper ...
, a TV station in Vancouver, Canada
Other uses
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Chan Buddhism
Chan (; of ), from Sanskrit '' dhyāna'' (meaning "meditation" or "meditative state"), is a Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It developed in China from the 6th century CE onwards, becoming especially popular during the Tang and So ...
(禅), a school of Mahayana Buddhism
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-''chan'', a Japanese suffix which expresses endearment
*Chan (), a form of
Thai poetry
Poetry has been featured extensively in Thai literature, and constituted the near-exclusive majority of literary works up to the early Rattanakosin period (early 19th century). Most of imaginative literary works in Thai, before the 19th century, w ...
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"Chans" (Kent song)
*Chan, the plant ''
Hyptis suaveolens
''Mesosphaerum suaveolens'', synonym ''Hyptis suaveolens'', the pignut or chan, is a branching pseudocereal plant native to tropical regions of Mexico, Central, the West Indies, and South America, as well as being naturalized in tropical parts ...
'', a relative of mint also known as "pignut"
See also
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Chen (surname)
Chen () () is a common Chinese-language surname and one of the most common surnames in Asia. It is the most common surname in Taiwan (2010) and Singapore (2000). Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Macau, and ...
, pronounced in Cantonese as Chan (陳)
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Chung (surname) Chung is a surname whose bearers are generally people of Chinese people, Chinese or Korean people, Korean descent. It is also a Vietnamese surname worn by people of Chinese descent but is very rare in Vietnam; the surname is known as Zhong (Traditio ...
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