Zan or ZAN, may refer to:

Geography

Zhan, Kurdistan Zhan ( fa, ژان, also Romanized as Zhān; also known as Zān and Zheyān) is a village in Bisaran Rural District, in the Central District (Sarvabad County), Central District of Sarvabad County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its po ...

, Iran, also known as Zān * Zhan, Lorestan, Iran, also known as Žān * Zan, Tehran, a village in Tehran Province, Iran

Ethnicity and language

Zans The Zans ( ka, ზანები, tr) or Chans ( ka, ჭანები, tr) are a subethnic group of Kartvelian people, speaking the Zan languages. * Kartvelian peoples **Georgians **Zans (Mingrelians and Laz people) **Svans See also * Kar ...

, the Zan People, people who speak the Zan languages *

Zan Gula language Zan Gula, or Zan, is an Adamawa language of Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north ...

, an Adamawa language of Chad *

Zan language The Zan languages, or Zanuri ( ka, ზანური ენები) or Colchidian, are a branch of the Kartvelian languages constituted by the Mingrelian and Laz languages. The grouping is disputed as some Georgian linguists consider the two ...

, a proposed collective term for the Megrelian and Laz languages in 7th Century Caucasus

People

* Zan, a soca singer winner of International Soca Monarch in Trinidad in 2006

Given name

Zan Abeyratne Suzanne Marguerite Abeyratne (born 1961), who performs as Zan or Xan, is an Australian-based singer born in London. Abeyratne was a co-lead vocalist of I'm Talking (1984–87), alongside Kate Ceberano. She provided lead vocals on their single, ...

, backing singer in ''Models'' *

Žan Benedičič Žan Benedičič (born 3 October 1995) is a Slovenian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Celje. Benedičič has also represented the Slovenia national under-21 football team. Club career Milan After progressing through the yout ...

(born 1994) Slovenian soccer player * Žan Celar (born 1999) Slovenian soccer player *

Zan Ganassa Zan Ganassa (, ; – c. 1584) was the stage name of an early actor-manager of Commedia dell'arte, whose company was one of the first to tour outside Italy.Senelick 1995a, p. 409. Ganassa's real name was probably Alberto NaseliHartnoll 1983, "Ganass ...

(1540–1584) Italian actor *

Zan Wesley Holmes Jr Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. is Pastor Emeritus of St. Luke Community United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, where he served as Senior Pastor for 28 years. Life Rev. Dr. Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. graduated cum laude from Huston–Tillotson University in A ...

, U.S. minister * Žan Jakše, Slovenian canoeist *

Žan Kranjec Žan Kranjec (born 15 November 1992) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Slovenia. He is mainly competing in the technical events of giant slalom and slalom. At the 2022 Winter Olympics, Kranjec won a silver medal in giant slalom. Career Kranj ...

(born 1992) Slovenian alpine skier * Žan Marolt (1964–2009) Bosnia-Herzegovina actor * Zan Perrion, Canadian pickup artist, founder of the Ars Amorata philosophy *

Zan Rowe Susanna "Zan" Rowe is an Australian radio and television presenter. she works for ABC digital radio station Double J. Early life Rowe grew up in Melbourne. She attended university at RMIT University, majoring in radio and cinema. Career ...

(born 1978) Australian radio personality *

Žan Tabak Žan Tabak (born 15 June 1970) is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player who last served as the head coach for San Pablo Burgos of the Liga ACB. His basketball career, spanning twenty years, was marked by several notable achie ...

(born 1970) Canadian basketball player

Surname

Alessandro Zan Alessandro Zan (; born 4 October 1973 in Padova) is an Italian left-wing politician, LGBT activist. Biography Zan is a leading member of the Italian gay organisation Arcigay. Since 2013 he has been a member of Italian Chamber of Deputies. Bor ...

(born 1973) Italian politician *

Gökhan Zan Gökhan Zan (born 7 September 1981 in Antakya) is a retired Turkish footballer. Club career Zan started his career with Hatayspor and then moved on to Çanakkale Dardanelspor before joining Beşiktaş in 2003. He needed time to make his mark wi ...

(born 1981) Turkish footballer * Zinny J. Zan of Zan Clan * Zan (surname), Chinese surname (昝)

Fictional characters

* Zan, the eagle in

Guardians of Ga'Hoole ''Guardians of Ga'Hoole'' is a fantasy book series written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic. The series contains a total of 16 books and although originally intended to conclude with the 2008 publication of ''The War of the Ember' ...

* Zan, the main character in the video game '' Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman'' * Zan, the male Wonder Twin in the American animated Hanna-Barbera TV series ''Super Friends'' * Zan Owlson, the female acting CEO of Glomgold Industries in the 2017 reboot of ''

DuckTales ''DuckTales'' is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation. The original cartoon series premiered on syndication and on Disney Channel on September 18, 1987 and ran for a total of 100 episodes over four seas ...

'' * Zan Partizane, one of the characters in ''

Kirby Star Allies ''Kirby Star Allies'' is a 2018 platform video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. The twelfth mainline installment in the ''Kirby'' series, the player controls Kirby in his quest to prevent a pri ...

Media

* ''Zan'' (newspaper), an Iranian newspaper *

Zan TV Zan TV (''Women TV/تلویزیون زن'' in Dari) is an Afghan television channel that almost exclusively employs women, and offers programming that especially addresses issues relevant to women in Afghanistan. Founded by Hamid Samar, a media en ...

, Afghan women's TV station

Music

* ''Zan'' (Shohreh Solati album), a critically acclaimed album by

Shohreh Solati Fatemeh Solati Nayebi ( fa, فاطمه صولتی نایبی), better known by her stage name Shohreh ( fa, شهره), is an Iranian singer. Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, she has continued her music career in exile. Biography Shohreh S ...

* "Zan", a 1999 song by Japanese rock band Dir En Grey on ''

Gauze Gauze is a thin, translucent fabric with a loose open weave. In technical terms "gauze" is a weave structure in which the weft yarns are arranged in pairs and are crossed before and after each warp yarn keeping the weft firmly in place. ...

'' * "Zan", song by Gackt released as "Setsugekka (The End of Silence)"/"Zan" in 2009

Video games

* Zan: Yasha Enbukyoku * Zan II: Spirits

Other uses

* Zan (簪), the Chinese name for hairpins, called

Kanzashi are hair ornaments used in traditional Japanese hairstyles. The term refers to a wide variety of accessories, including long, rigid hairpins, barrettes, fabric flowers and fabric hair ties. In the English-speaking world, the term is typica ...

in Japan

Acronyms and codes

Zanzibar Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islands ...

, a part of Tanzania, East Africa *

Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center (PAZA/ZAN) is located just outside the main gate of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson at 700 North Boniface Parkway in Anchorage, Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The Anchorage ARTCC is one of 2 ...

in Alaska (identifier) *

Zantop International Airlines Zantop International Airlines, Inc., was a United States airline incorporated in May 1972 as a Michigan corporation, the stock of which was 100% owned by the Zantop family. History Zantop traces its origins to 1946 when the Zantop family set up Z ...

, United States (ICAO code)