man A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromo ...

is an adult male of the modern

human species Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, an ...

, its individuals, and nearest extinct relatives. See also

man (word) The term ''man'' (from Proto-Germanic ''*mann-'' "person") and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their sex or age. In traditional usage, ''man'' (without an article) itself refers to the specie ...

for the etymology. Man or MAN may also refer to:

Places

Isle of Man ) , anthem = "O Land of Our Birth" , image = Isle of Man by Sentinel-2.jpg , image_map = Europe-Isle_of_Man.svg , mapsize = , map_alt = Location of the Isle of Man in Europe , map_caption = Location of the Isle of Man (green) in Europe ...

, located in the Irish Sea, part of the British Isles * Man Island (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), a small uninhabited island in the Bay of Bengal *

Man (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Man Assembly constituency of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha is one of the constituencies located in the Satara district. It is a part of the Madha (Lok Sabha constituency), along with five other assembly constituencies, namely Phaltan in the Satara ...

, political district in India * Man Department, Ivory Coast ** Man, Ivory Coast, a town and capital of the department *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Man The Roman Catholic Diocese of Man ( la, Manen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Man in the Ecclesiastical province of Gagnoa in Côte d'Ivoire. History * June 8, 1968: Established as Diocese of Man from the Diocese of Daloa Special c ...

, Ivory Coast * Man, West Virginia, a town in the United States * Man., abbreviation for

Manitoba , image_map = Manitoba in Canada 2.svg , map_alt = Map showing Manitoba's location in the centre of Southern Canada , Label_map = yes , coordinates = , capital = Winn ...

, a Canadian province * Man, Vikramgad, a village in Maharashtra, India * Manchester Airport's IATA airport code *

Manchester Piccadilly station Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England. Opened as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of Manchester city ...

's National Rail station code MAN

Music

* Man (band), a Welsh progressive rock group ** ''Man'' (Man album), 1971 * ''Man'' (Neneh Cherry album), the third solo album by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry, released in 1996 * "Man" (Skepta song), 2016 * "Man" (JoJo song), 2020 * "Man", a 1989 song on the album '' Staring at the Sun'' by Level 42 * "Man", a 2003 song on the album ''

Fever to Tell ''Fever to Tell'' is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 29, 2003, by Interscope Records. It was produced by David Andrew Sitek and mixed by Alan Moulder. Four singles were issued, the first being ...

'' by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs * "Man", a 2016 song on the album '' Air for Free'' by Relient K * "Man", a 2018 song on the album ''

Blue Madonna ''Blue Madonna'' is the second studio album by American musician Børns. It was released on January 12, 2018 through Interscope Records. Background On July 28, 2017, Børns released the single "Faded Heart" on Interscope Records. On September ...

'' by Børns * "Man", a song by the band The Worst featured in the 2020

Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a fi ...

crime documentary series, Unabomber: In His Own Words.

Businesses

MAN SE MAN SE (abbreviation of ''Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg'', ) was a manufacturing and engineering company based in Munich, Germany. Its primary output was commercial vehicles and diesel engines through its MAN Truck & Bus and MAN Latin Ame ...

, a German engineering company that manufactures (amongst other things) buses and trucks *

Man Group Man Group plc is an active investment management business listed on the London Stock Exchange. It provides a range of funds across liquid and private markets for institutional and private investors globally and is the world's largest publicly t ...

plc, a British financial services company * The stock symbol of Manpower, Inc., an American employment agency

Political organizations

* ''Marea Adunare Naţională'', the

Great National Assembly Great National Assembly or Grand National Assembly may refer to: * Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia, an assembly of Romanian delegates that declared the unification of Transylvania and Romania * Great National Assembly (Socialist Republic of ...

in Communist Romania *

Mongolian People's Party The Mongolian People's Party (MPP) is a social democratic political party in Mongolia. It was founded as a communist party in 1920 by Mongolian revolutionaries and is the oldest political party in Mongolia. The party played an important role ...

, a political party in Mongolia ( mn, Монгол Ардын Нам) * Movement of Arab Nationalists * ''Movimento de Acção Nacional'' or the National Action Movement (Portugal) * ''Movimiento de Acción Nacional'' or the National Action Movement (Venezuela) *

Partido MAN Partido MAN is a political party in Curaçao founded in 1971, which has two of the 21 seats of the Estates of Curaçao after the Curaçao general election of 2021. In the elections preceding the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles the party g ...

(''Movementu Antia Nobo'' or New Antilles Movement), a political party in Curaçao

Computing

Metropolitan area network A metropolitan area network (MAN) is a computer network that interconnects users with computer resources in a geographic region of the size of a metropolitan area. The term MAN is applied to the interconnection of local area networks (LANs) in ...

, large computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city * The "man" command, used to retrieve a

man page A man page (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system. Topics covered include computer programs (including library and system calls), formal standards and conventions, and e ...

, a software documentation page on Unix and Unix-like operating systems

Other uses

* A chess piece or pawn; sometimes the word "piece" is defined to exclude pawns. * ''

Man! ''Man! A Journal of the Anarchist Ideal and Movement'' was an anarchist periodical published in San Francisco from 1933 to 1940. Bibliography * * External links * Anarchist periodicals published in the United States 1933 establ ...

'', American anarchist periodical, 1933–1940 * Man (name) (includes a list of people with the name) * The Man, derisive slang phrase for higher authority * Man or

Nanman The Man, commonly known as the Nanman or Southern Man (, ''lit. Southern Barbarians''), were ancient indigenous peoples who lived in inland South and Southwest China, mainly around the Yangtze River valley. In ancient Chinese sources, the ter ...

, ancient Chinese ethnic group * Standard romanization of the Manchu people *

Man (Middle-earth) In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction, Man and Men denote humans, whether male or female, in contrast to Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and other humanoid races. Men are described as the second or younger people, created after the Elves, and di ...

, people in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien * ''Man'' (journal) (1901–1994), continued by ''The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute'' * Man (unit), an ancient Arabic and Persian unit of mass * "Man", a statue by Virgil Cantini *

Ultraman ''Ultraman'', also known as the , is the collective name for all media produced by Tsuburaya Productions featuring Ultraman, his many brethren, and the myriad monsters. Debuting with ''Ultra Q'' and then ''Ultraman'' in 1966, the series is one ...

, a Japanese television series often referred to as "Man" * In neo-pagan Germanic mysticism, the alternative name of the Norse

Algiz Algiz (also Elhaz) is the name conventionally given to the "''z''-rune" of the Elder Futhark runic alphabet. Its transliteration is ''z'', understood as a phoneme of the Proto-Germanic language, the terminal ''*z'' continuing Proto-Indo-Europ ...

rune, where it is used as a purported ''life rune''