Tan or TAN may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

* Black and Tans, a nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence. By extension "Tans" can now also colloquially refer to English or British people in general, especially disparagingly. * TAN Books, a Catholic publishing company * FC Rubin-TAN Kazan, a Russian professional ice hockey club in Kazan in 1991-94 * Transportes Aereos Nacionales, an airline based in Honduras known as

TAN Airlines Tan or TAN may refer to: Businesses and organisations * Black and Tans, a nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence. By extension "Tans" can now also colloquially refer to English people, English or British peopl ...

People

* Tan (surname) (譚), a Chinese surname *

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 ...

(陳), a Chinese surname, pronounced "Tan" in Min Nan languages *

Laozi Laozi (), also known by numerous other names, was a semilegendary ancient Chinese Taoist philosopher. Laozi ( zh, ) is a Chinese honorific, generally translated as "the Old Master". Traditional accounts say he was born as in the state ...

, posthumous name "Tan" or "Dān" (聃), philosopher of ancient China * Leborgne, nicknamed Tan, a patient of Paul Broca's, on whose autopsy he identified Broca's area * TAN (musician) (born 1990), Malaysian pop singer * Tan Sağtürk (born 1969), Turkish ballet

Places

China

* Tan (state), an ancient viscountcy in eastern Shandong Province, China * Tai'an railway station (Shandong), China Railway pinyin code TAN

Vietnam

Tân An, Bắc Giang Province Tan or TAN may refer to: Businesses and organisations * Black and Tans, a nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence. By extension "Tans" can now also colloquially refer to English or British people in general, ...

, a northeastern commune and village *

Tân An, Long An Province Tan or TAN may refer to: Businesses and organisations * Black and Tans, a nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence. By extension "Tans" can now also colloquially refer to English or British people in general, es ...

, the capital city of Long An Province, Mekong Delta * Tân An Province, a former province of South Vietnam

Elsewhere

* Tan Track, also known as "The Tan", a running track in Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia * Tanzania (IOC and FIFA trigram: TAN), a country *

Taunton Municipal Airport Taunton Municipal Airport , also known as King Field, is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Taunton, Massachusetts, Taunton, a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, Bristol Count ...

(IATA airport code: TAN), in Taunton, Massachusetts, US

Science and technology

* Tan (color), a pale shade of brown * Tanning (leather), the process of making leather from hides * Tangent (tan), one of the trigonometric functions * Ti-6Al-7Nb, a titanium alloy containing aluminum and niobium * Total acid number, or TAN, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity * Transaction authentication number or TAN, in electronic banking

Biology

* Tan (goat pattern), a goat color pattern *

Tanbark Tanbark is the bark of certain species of trees, traditionally used for tanning hides into leather. The words "tannin", "tanning", "tan," and " tawny" are derived from the Medieval Latin ''tannare'', "to convert into leather." Bark mills are ...

, or tan, the bark of certain species of tree * Sun tanning, the darkening of skin in response to ultraviolet light ** Sunless tanning, the darkening of skin without ultraviolet light *

Tropical ataxic neuropathy Tropical ataxic neuropathy (TAN, also known as Strachan-Scott Syndrome and prisoners of war neuropathy) is a disease or category of diseases that commonly causes disability and increases mortality. The causes of TAN are not understood; there is no ...

Other uses

-tan The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called , which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are a ...

, a Japanese honorific * ''Tan'', an album by the Polish rock band Kult * TAN (group), South Korean boy band * ''Tan'' (newspaper), a newspaper in Turkey * ''Tan'' (weekly newspaper), a newspaper in Kosovo *

Irish War of Independence The Irish War of Independence () or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-mil ...

, sometimes called the "Black and Tan war" or "Tan war" * Tahn (Armenian ''tʻan''), a yoghurt-based drink from the Middle East * Tanfana, or Tan, an ancient European goddess * Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number (TAN), an Indian tax code