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 The Nan River ( th, แม่น้ำน่าน, , ) is a river in Thailand. It is one of the most important tributaries of the Chao Phraya River. Geography The Nan River originates in the Luang Prabang Range, Nan Province. The provinces ...

People

Given name

Nan Cross Nan Cross (3 January 1928 – 14 July 2007) was a South African anti-apartheid and anti-conscription activist. Early life Cross was born in Pretoria, South Africa before the Apartheid era, when racial segregation was less formalised. Her father ...

(1928–2007), South African anti-apartheid and anti-conscription activist *

Nan Hayworth Nan Alison Hayworth (née Sutter; born December 14, 1959) is an American ophthalmologist and former Congresswoman for . A Republican, she was elected in 2010. In 2012, after redistricting, Hayworth ran for reelection in the new 18th district. ...

(born 1959), former U.S. Representative from New York's 19th Congressional District *

Nan Wood Honeyman Nan Honeyman (née Wood; July 15, 1881 – December 10, 1970) was an American politician from the state of Oregon. A native of New York, she was the daughter of author and attorney Charles Erskine Scott Wood. After growing up in Oregon, she serve ...

, (1881–1970), first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Oregon * Nan Hu, Chinese physician-scientist, molecular geneticist, and cancer epidemiologist * Nan Kempner (1930–2005), New York socialite * Nan Martin (1927–2010), American actress *

Nan Grogan Orrock Nan Grogan Orrock (born November 8, 1943) is an American politician serving as the Democratic State Senator in the Georgia State Senate, representing Senate District 36 in eastern Atlanta. Following the 2006 retirement of State Senator Sam Zam ...

(born 1943), member of the Georgia House of Representatives and State Senator * Nan Phelps (1904–1990), American folk artist *

Nan Rich Nan H. Rich (born February 9, 1942) is an American politician from the state of Florida and currently serves as a county commissioner in Broward County, Florida. Career She served as a Democratic member of the Florida Senate from 2004 to 2012 ...

(born 1942), member of the Florida Senate and former member of the House of Representatives *

Nan C. Robertson Nan C. Robertson (July 11, 1926 – October 13, 2009) was an American journalist, author and instructor in journalism. Her awards included a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Five decades in journalism Born in Chicago, Illinois, Robertson atten ...

(1926–2009), Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, author and teacher *

Nan A. Talese Nan Talese (née Ahearn; born December 19, 1933) is a retired American editor, and a veteran of the New York publishing industry. Talese was the senior vice president of Doubleday. From 1990 to 2020, Talese was the publisher and editorial direct ...

(born 1933), American editor

Chinese name

Nan Huai-Chin Nan Huai-Chin () (March 18, 1918 – September 29, 2012) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, religious scholar, and writer. A well-regarded spiritual teacher in contemporary China, he was considered by many to be the major force in the revival ...

(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 Luo Nan (born 1986-11-03 in Anshan, Liaoning) is a female Chinese swimmer, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Major achievements *2001 National Games - 1st 200m breast/4 × 100 m medley relay; *2006 Asian Games 6 (six ...

(born 1986), Chinese swimmer * Sima Nan (born 1956), Chinese television pundit and journalist *

Song Nan Song Nan (; born August 9, 1990) is a Chinese former competitive figure skater. He is the 2014 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 2014 Four Continents bronze medalist, the Figure skating at the 2013 Winter Universiade, 2013 Winter Uni ...

(born 1990), Chinese figure skater * Wang Nan (disambiguation) *

Yu Nan Yu Nan (, born 5 September 1978) is a Chinese actress. Born in Dalian, Yu Nan studied at the Beijing Film Academy, where she graduated in 1999. Career Yu Nan started acting at the age of 4, playing role of a little girl with a handkerchief t ...

(born 1978), Chinese actress * Zhang Nan (disambiguation) *

Zhou Nan Zhou Nan () was a prominent Chinese politician and diplomat, and served as Director of the Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong, Vice Minister of the People's Republic of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ambassador to the United Nations. He wa ...

(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 Nannerl "Nan" Overholser Keohane (born September 18, 1940, in Blytheville, Arkansas) She is now a professor in social sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, where she is researching the theory and practice of leadership in democ ...

(born 1940), American political theorist and former president of Wellesley College and Duke University *

Nan Merriman Katherine Ann Merriman (April 28, 1920 – July 22, 2012) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Biography A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she performed with her pianist brother, J. Vick O'Brien (later president of the Pittsburgh Nation ...

(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 John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ''The Midnight Folk'' and ''The Box of Delights'', and the poem ...

, 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 The National Action Network (NAN) is a not-for-profit, civil rights organization founded by the Reverend Al Sharpton in New York City, New York, in early 1991. In a 2016 profile, '' Vanity Fair'' called Sharpton "arguably the country's most infl ...

, 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) The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club. The congress features a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues related to security, cryptography, privacy and online ...

, 20th Chaos Communication Congress in 2003 *

NAN-190 NAN-190 is a drug and research chemical widely used in scientific studies. It was previously believed to act as a selective 5-HT1A receptor Receptor may refer to: * Sensory receptor, in physiology, any structure which, on receiving environmen ...

, a drug and research chemical widely used in scientific studies *

Near-me area network A near-me area network is a logical grouping of communication devices that are in close physical proximity to each other, but not necessarily connected to the same communication network infrastructure. Thus, two smartphones connected via differe ...

, a communication network that focuses on wireless communication among devices in close proximity *

Neighborhood Aware Networking Android Oreo ( codenamed Android O during development) is the eighth major release and the 15th version of the Android mobile operating system. It was first released as an alpha quality developer preview in March 2017 and released to the publ ...

, in Android O *

NMDA Antagonist Neurotoxicity Olney's lesions, also known as NMDA receptor antagonist neurotoxicity (NAN), are a form of potential brain damage due to drugs that have been studied experimentally and have produced neuronal damage, yet are administered by doctors to humans in the ...

, a potential form of brain damage * Sodium azide, a chemical compound with the formula NaN₃

Other uses

* News Agency of Nigeria *

Norwegian Air Norway Norwegian Air Norway AS is a Norwegian airline and a fully integrated subsidiary of low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle, using its corporate identity. The airline is based at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, with its aircraft registered in Norway ...

Southern Min Southern Min (), Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation: ) or Banlam (), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwan ( ...

(ISO 639-3 language code nan), a language originated from China *

Nadi International Airport Nadi International Airport is the main international airport of Fiji as well as an important regional hub for the South Pacific islands, located by the coast on the western side of the main island Viti Levu. Owned and operated by Fiji Airports ...

(IATA code NAN), Fiji *

Tandyr nan ''Tandyr nan'' is a type of Central Asian bread. Names * Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik: ''nan'' (), ''tandyr nan'' () * Turkmen: * Uyghur: ''nan'' (), ''tonur nan'' () * Uzbekistan: , * Chinese: ''náng'' () * Russian: ''lepyoshka'' () Variet ...

, Uzbek flatbread