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Nan or NAN may refer to one of the following.
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- King Nan of Zhou (314-256 BC), last ruler of the Chinese Zhou dynasty
- Nan Geng, posthumous name of a Shang Dynasty King of China
[edit] First name
- Nan Britton (1896–1991), who claimed to have been the mistress of President Warren G. Harding
- Nan Cross (1928–2007), South African anti-apartheid and anti-conscription activist
- Nan Wood Honeyman, (1881–1970), first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Oregon
- Nan Kempner (1930–2005), New York socialite
- Nannerl "Nan" O. Keohane (born 1940), American political theorist and former president of Wellesley College and Duke University
- Nan Martin (1927–2010), American actress
- Nan Merriman (born 1920), American operatic singer
- Nan Grogan Orrock, member of the Georgia House of Representatives and State Senator
- Nan Phelps (1904–1990), American folk artist
- Nan Rich (born 1942), member of the Florida Senate and former member of the House of Representatives
- Nan C. Robertson (1926–2009), Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, author and teacher
- Luo Nan (born 1986), Chinese swimmer
- Sima Nan (born 1956), Chinese television pundit and journalist
- Song Nan (born 1990), Chinese figure skater
- Wang Nan (table tennis) (born 1978), Chinese table tennis player
- Yu Nan (born 1978), Chinese actress
- Zhang Nan (gymnast) (born 1986), Chinese gymnast
- Zhou Nan (born 1927), Chinese politician and diplomat
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- Nan, a play by the English poet John Masefield, first produced in 1908, also known as The Tragedy of Nan
- Nan, a form of the name Anna and Agnes
- NAN-190, a drug and research chemical widely used in scientific studies
- Nan, English-slang for grandmother, opposite of Pap(grandfather)
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