Nan

Nan or NAN may refer to:

Places

China

• Nan County, Yiyang, Hunan, China
• Nan Commandery, historical commandery in Hubei, China

Thailand

• Nan Province
  • Nan (town), the administrative capital of Nan Province
• Nan River

People

First name

• King Nan of Zhou (r. 314–256 BC), last ruler of the Chinese Zhou dynasty
• Nan Cross (1928–2007), South African anti-apartheid and anti-conscription activist
• Nan Hayworth (born 1959), former U.S. Representative from New York's 19th Congressional District
• Nan Wood Honeyman, (1881–1970), first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Oregon
• Nan Huai-Chin (1918–2012), Buddhist teacher in China
• Nan Kempner (1930–2005), New York socialite
• Nan Martin (1927–2010), American actress
• Nan Grogan Orrock (born 1943), 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
• Nan A. Talese (born 1933), American editor

Nickname

• Nan Britton (1896–1991), mistress of President Warren G. Harding
• Nannerl O. Keohane (born 1940), American political theorist and former president of Wellesley College and Duke University
• Nan Merriman (1920–2012), American operatic singer

Last name

• Nan (surname) (南), Chinese surname
• Mohd Fauzi Nan (born 1980), Malaysian football player
• 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

Other

• English familiar term for grandmother

Arts and entertainment

• Nan, a play by the English poet John Masefield, first produced in 1908, also known as The Tragedy of Nan
• Nan, nickname of the character Joannie Taylor, from the Catherine Tate Show

Organisations

• National Action Network, American civil rights organization
• Nishnawbe Aski Nation

Science and technology

• NaN (not a number), used in computer arithmetic and defined in the IEEE floating-point standard
• NaN (congress), 20th Chaos Communication Congress in 2003
• NAN-190, a drug and research chemical widely used in scientific studies
• Near-me area network, a communication network that focuses on wireless communication among devices in close proximity
• Neighborhood Aware Networking, in Android O
• NMDA Antagonist Neurotoxicity, a potential form of brain damage
• Sodium azide, a chemical compound with the formula NaN₃

Other uses

• News Agency of Nigeria
• Norwegian Air Norway
• Southern Min (ISO 639-3 language code nan), a language originated from China
• Nadi International Airport (IATA code NAN), Fiji

See also

• Naan, a type of leavened bread