Lan or LAN may also refer to:

Science and technology

Local asymptotic normality In statistics, local asymptotic normality is a property of a sequence of statistical models, which allows this sequence to be asymptotically approximated by a normal location model, after a rescaling of the parameter. An important example when t ...

, a fundamental property of regular models in statistics *

Longitude of the ascending node The longitude of the ascending node (☊ or Ω) is one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space. It is the angle from a specified reference direction, called the ''origin of longitude'', to the direction of the asce ...

, one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space * Łan, unit of measurement in Poland *

Local area network A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building. By contrast, a wide area network (WAN) not only covers a larger ...

, a computer network that interconnects within a limited area such as one or more buildings *

Lan blood group system The Lan blood group system (short for Langereis) is a human blood group defined by the presence or absence of the Lan antigen on a person's red blood cells. More than 99.9% of people are positive for the Lan antigen. Individuals with the rare Lan- ...

, a human blood group

Places

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...

(Chapman code), England *

Lancaster railway station Lancaster may refer to: Lands and titles *The County Palatine of Lancaster, a synonym for Lancashire *Duchy of Lancaster, one of only two British royal duchies *Duke of Lancaster *Earl of Lancaster *House of Lancaster, a British royal dynasty ...

(National Rail station code), England *

Capital Region International Airport Capital Region International Airport , formerly Lansing Capital City Airport, is a public, Class C airport located northwest of downtown Lansing in a portion of DeWitt Township, Michigan that has been annexed to the City of Lansing via Pub ...

(IATA airport code), Lansing, Michigan, US *

Lan County Lan County or Lanxian is a county under the administration of Lüliang City, in west-central Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region ...

, Shanxi, China * Łan, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland *

Lan (river) The Lan ( be, Лань) is a river in Belarus, approximately long. It is a left tributary of the Pripyat Pripyat ( ; russian: При́пять), also known as Prypiat ( uk, При́пʼять, , ), is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, l ...

, Belarus *

Llan (placename) Llan () and its variants ( br, lan; kw, lann; xpi, lhan; Irish and gd, lann) are a common element of Celtic placenames in the British Isles and Brittany, especially of Welsh toponymy. In Welsh an (often mutated) name of a local saint or a g ...

, a placename element known in Breton as ''lan''

Airlines

LAN Airlines LATAM Airlines Chile (formerly LAN Airlines and LAN-Chile) is an airline based in Santiago, Chile, one of the founders of LATAM Airlines Group, Latin America's largest airline holding company. The main hub is Arturo Merino Benítez International ...

, former name of LATAM Chile, an airline in Chile, with a stake in other airlines: **

LAN Peru Lan or LAN may also refer to: Science and technology * Local asymptotic normality, a fundamental property of regular models in statistics * Longitude of the ascending node, one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in sp ...

, an airline based in Peru ** LAN Ecuador, an airline based in Quito, Ecuador ** LAN Argentina, a defunct Argentinian airline **

LAN Dominicana LAN Dominicana (formerly and legally ''Líneas Aéreas Nacionales de Navegación Dominicana S.A.'') was an airline based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic that operated international services."Directory:World airlines." ''Flight International'' ...

, a defunct Dominican airline ** LAN Colombia, an airline based in Bogotá, Colombia

Arts

* ''Lan'' (film), a 2009 Chinese film *

Lan Mandragoran This article serves as an index of major characters in the fictional setting of Robert Jordan's ''The Wheel of Time'' series, with a description of their main roles or feats in the series. ''The Wheel of Time'' has 2787 distinct named characters. ...

, a fictional character from Robert Jordan's ''The Wheel of Time'' series *

Lan Hikari Since the debut of the first '' Mega Man'' video game in 1987, numerous characters have been introduced into the series. Overview Key: = Does Not Appear List indicator(s) * A dark grey cell indicates that the character was not in the prop ...

, protagonist of the ''Mega Man: Battle Network'' series of video games and animated television shows

People

Lan (surname 蓝) Lan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified Chinese and in traditional Chinese. It is romanized Lam or Nam in Cantonese. Lan is listed 131st in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred F ...

, a Chinese surname *

Lan (surname 兰) Lan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified Chinese and in traditional Chinese. As of 2008, it is the 154th most common surname in China, shared by 840,000 people. Lan 蘭 is not listed ...

, a Chinese surname *

Lan (given name) Lan is a personal name, frequently used in Chinese and Vietnamese contexts as a feminine given name, which means "orchid." In Vietnamese, "Lân" with the accent denotes a masculine given name, which refers to Kỳ Lân, a mythical creature that a ...

, a given name (including a list of people with the name) *

Lan (tribe) The Lan () tribe was one of the five member tribes of the old Xiongnu people who lived during the Han Dynasty in Northern Wei. History The Xiongnu people had five tribes: Luandi, Xubu, Huyan, Lan, and Qiulin. According to the Chinese assimilation ...

, ethnic group in Han dynasty China *

David Lan David Lan is a South African-born British playwright, theatre producer and director and a social anthropologist. Career Born in Cape Town, he trained as an actor and gained a BA at the University of Cape Town. He has lived in London since 197 ...

(born 1952), South African-born British playwright *

Donald Lan Donald Paul Lan Sr. (December 19, 1930 – April 29, 2019) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as Secretary of State of New Jersey from 1977 to 1982. He was appointed to the post by Governor Brendan Byrne. Lan has been the Un ...

(1930–2019), American politician *

Phạm Chi Lan Phạm Chi Lan is a Vietnamese economist. She specialises in economic policy reforms and Vietnam's international integration process. Biography Lan graduated from the Foreign Trade University in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1966. She started her career ...

, Vietnamese economist

Other uses

Län Län (Swedish, ), lääni (Finnish, ) and len (Norwegian, ) refer to the administrative divisions used in Sweden and previously in Finland and Norway. The provinces of Finland were abolished on January 1, 2010. In Norway, the term was in use betw ...

, administrative division used in Sweden and until 2009 in Finland *

, a tribe of Eastern Huns * ''Lan'', a

Cantonese profanity The five most common Cantonese profanities, vulgar words in the Cantonese language are '' diu'' (/), ''gau'' (//), ''lan'' (/), ''tsat'' (//) and ''hai'' (/), where the first literally means '' fuck'', "Diu" (or Jiu) is literally the word for fuck ...

Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam LEO A DALY, established by Leo A. Daly, Sr. in 1915, is an American architecture, planning, engineering, interior design and program management firm. The firm's portfolio includes projects in 91 countries, all 50 U.S. states and the District of C ...

, an American civil engineering company *

Typhoon Lan Typhoon Lan, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Paolo, was the third-most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2017. A very large storm, Lan was the twenty-first tropical storm and ninth typhoon of the annual typhoon season. It originated from ...