Stan or STAN may refer to:

People

* Stan (given name), a list of people with the given name ** Stan Laurel (1890–1965), English comic actor, part of duo Laurel and Hardy * Stan (surname), a Romanian surname *

Stan! Stan! (born Steven Brown) is an American author, cartoonist, and game designer. He is sometimes credited as Stan Brown. Biography Brown was born and grew up on Long Island and attended Binghamton University. Brown began publishing fiction, ca ...

(born 1964), American author, cartoonist and games designer Steven Brown *

Stan (singer) Stan ( gr, Στράτος Αντιπαριώτης, born Stratos Antipariotis on August 1, 1987 in Athens, Greece), is a Greek singer, songwriter and fashion model. Early career Stratos, better known in Greece by his stage name "Stan", is ...

(born 1987), Greek singer born Stratos Antipariotis

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Stan, an alligator in the 2006 Disney animated film ''

The Wild ''The Wild'' is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by animator Steve "Spaz" Williams and written by Ed Decter, John J. Strauss, Mark Gibson and Philip Halprin. It features the voices of Eddie Izzard, Kiefer Sutherl ...

'' *

Grunkle Stan Stanley Pines, also known as "Grunkle Stan", is one of the main characters of the Disney Channel animated series ''Gravity Falls'', created and voiced by the series creator Alex Hirsch. In an interview, Hirsch claims that Grunkle Stan is loosely ...

, in the animated TV series ''Gravity Falls'' * Stan, in the 2009 American fantasy comedy movie '' 17 Again'' * Stan, from the film ''

Crawl Crawl, The Crawl, or crawling may refer to: Biology * Crawling (human), any of several types of human quadrupedal gait * Limbless locomotion, the movement of limbless animals over the ground * Undulatory locomotion, a type of motion characteriz ...

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Stan Beeman Stan Beeman is a fictional character in the American television drama series ''The Americans'' on FX, and the supporting male character. He was created by series creator Joe Weisberg and is portrayed by Noah Emmerich. Stan is an FBI agent and a ne ...

, in the TV series ''The Americans'' *

Stan Carter Stan Carter is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', portrayed by Timothy West. He first appeared in the show's 4,793rd episode, originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2014, and was introduced as the f ...

, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Stan Edgar, in the Amazon Prime Video series '' The Boys'' * Stan Gable, in the ''

Revenge of the Nerds ''Revenge of the Nerds'' is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, and Bernie Casey. The film's plot chronicles a group of nerds at the fictional Adams College tryi ...

'' film series played by Ted McGinley *

Stan Marsh Stanley Randell William Marsh is a fictional character in the adult animated television series ''South Park''. He is voiced by and loosely based on series co-creator Trey Parker. Stan is one of the series' four central characters, along with Kyl ...

, in the animated TV series ''South Park'' *

Stan Ogden Stanley Josiah Ogden is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Bernard Youens. He debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 29 June 1964 and remained for twenty years until his death on 21 N ...

, in the British soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * Stan Pembroke, in the American sitcom television series '' Charles in Charge'' * Stan Smith (''American Dad!''), in the animated TV series ''American Dad!'' * Stan (''Monkey Island''), a salesman in the ''Monkey Island'' adventure games

Music

* "Stan" (song), a 2000 song by Eminem, featuring Dido from ''The Marshall Mathers LP'' **

Stan (fan) A fan or fanatic, sometimes also termed an aficionado or enthusiast, is a person who exhibits strong interest or admiration for something or somebody, such as a celebrity, a sport, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a movie, a vi ...

, slang for an unhealthily obsessed fan * ''Stan'' (EP), by Stan Walker, 2018

Science and technology

* Hurricane Stan, a 2005 hurricane * ''

Stanhopea ''Stanhopea'' is a genus of the orchid family (Orchidaceae) from Central and South America. The abbreviation used in horticultural trade is ''Stan.'' The genus is named for the 4th Earl of Stanhope (Philip Henry Stanhope) (1781-1855), presiden ...

'' (abbreviation Stan), an orchid genus * Stan (dinosaur), a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' fossil found at the Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, US

Technology

* ST segment, analysis in electrocardiography * Stan (service), an Australian streaming service * Stan (software), a programming language for statistical inference * System Trace Audit Number, a key to uniquely identify a card transaction based on the ISO 8583 standard

Organisations

* Stan, an Australian streaming video service * STAN (art-group), a Ukrainian cultural organisation * Mayors and Independents (Czech: ''Starostové a nezávislí''), a political party in the Czech Republic * Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara, a state college in Indonesia * Standard Chartered (stock market symbol), British multinational banking and financial services company

Other uses

Stan (horse) Stan (foaled in 1950 in England) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in England and in the United States where he was the 1954 American Champion Male Turf Horse. Racing at age two in 1952, he won six of his eight starts in England before bei ...

, a British-American Thoroughbred racehorse *

-stan The suffix -stan ( fa, ـستان, translit=''stân'' after a vowel; ''estân'' or ''istân'' after a consonant), has the meaning of "a place abounding in" or "a place where anything abounds" in the Persian language. It appears in the names of ...

, a Persian suffix meaning "home of", "place of" or "country" *

Stan, Mirna Stan () is a settlement in the hills to the southeast of Mirna in the Municipality of Mirna in southeastern Slovenia. The municipality is included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower C ...

, a settlement in Slovenia *

Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian Sino-Austronesian or Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian is a proposed language family suggested by Laurent Sagart in 1990. Using reconstructions of Old Chinese, Sagart argued that the Austronesian languages are related to the Sinitic languages phonolog ...

, a proposed language family * Stan (administrative unit), a historical administrative unit in Russia