Sagan

Sagan may refer to:

Places

• German name for
  • Żagań, Poland
  • Duchy of Żagań (1274–1549), one of the duchies of Silesia
• Sagan, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
• Sagan, West Azerbaijan, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Sagan, Ethiopia
• Sagan River, Ethiopia
• Şağan, Azerbaijan

• 2709 Sagan, asteroid named after Carl Sagan
• Sagan (crater), impact crater on Mars named after Carl Sagan

People

• Segan, an Aramaic term for the deputy of a civil or religious leader, rendered as sagan in Hebrew

• Anna of Sagan (died 1541), duchess by marriage to Duke Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels
• Alexandra "Sasha" Sagan (born 1982), American author, television producer, and filmmaker
• Carl Sagan (1934–1996), American astronomer, science writer, and advocate for rationalism and skepticism
• Dorion Sagan (born 1959), American writer, one of Carl Sagan's sons
• Françoise Sagan (1935–2004), French writer
• Ginetta Sagan (1925–2000), American human-rights activist
• Hedwig of Sagan (died 1390), Queen of Poland as wife of Casimir III
• Jacob Dungau Sagan (born 1946), Malaysian politician and Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia
• Jeanne Sagan (born 1979), American musician, bassist for All That Remains
• Juraj Sagan (born 1988), Slovak cyclist, Peter Sagan's brother
• Leontine Sagan (1889–1974), Austrian film director and actress
• Nick Sagan (born 1970), American writer, one of Carl Sagan's sons
• Peter Sagan (born 1990), Slovak cyclist, Juraj Sagan's brother
• Scott Sagan (born 1955), professor of political science at Stanford University

Engineering, science and technology

• Sagan (number), the number of stars in the observable universe
• Sagan (unit of measurement), humorous unit of measurement named after Carl Sagan
• S.A.G.A.N., social and collaborative web-platform
• Sagan (software), a high performance, multi-threaded log analysis engine

Other

• Sagan (ceremony), a Nepalese sacred ritual
• Sagan (film), 2008 French film about the French writer Françoise Sagan
• Sagan Tosu, Japanese professional football club based in Tosu, Saga Prefecture

See also

• All pages with titles containing Sagan
• All pages with titles beginning with Sagan
• Sagen (disambiguation)