Pan

Pan may refer to:

Prefix

• Pan-, a prefix from the Greek πᾶν, pan, meaning "all", "of everything", or "involving all members" of a group
  • All pages with titles beginning with Pan, most but not all using the prefix

People

• Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
• Pan Ron, Cambodian singer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Card games

• Pan (game), a shedding card game of Polish origin
• Panguingue or Pan, a gambling card game

Fictional characters

• Pan (Dragon Ball), in the anime Dragon Ball Z
• Peter Pan, in a James Barrie novel

Films

• Pan (1922 film), Norwegian
• Pan (1995 film), 1995 Danish/Norwegian/German
• Pan's Labyrinth (2006), by Guillermo Del Toro
• Pan (2015 film), about Peter Pan

Literature and publishing

• Pan (novel), by Knut Hamsun
• Pan (magazine) an arts and literary review
• Pan Books, a publisher

Music

Musical instruments

• Pan, short for steelpan, an acoustic instrument
• Pan flute or pan pipes, a musical instrument

Performers

• A Turkish band that performed Bana Bana at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989
• Pan's People, a British dance troupe

Titled works

• Pan (The Blue Hearts), an album by the Japanese band
• Pan, an opera by Carl Venth

Religion

• Pan (god), a Greek god

Science and technology

Astronomy

• Pan (crater), on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
• Pan (moon), of Saturn
• A name for Jupiter XI, now Carme (moon), 1955-1975
• 4450 Pan, an asteroid

Chemistry

• Peroxyacyl nitrates
• Phthalic anhydride
• Polyacrylonitrile, a polymer of acrylonitrile

Computing

• Pan (newsreader), for Usenet
• Pan (programming language)
• P.A.N., a type of linguistic analyzer
• Personal Area Network
  • Bluetooth Personal Area Network (PAN), a Bluetooth profile
• Permanent account number (PAN card), for taxpayers in India
• Primary Account Number of a payment card

Geology

• Dry lake, a dry lake
  • Salt pan (geology), a salt dry lake
• Gold panning, a mining technique

Health and medicine

• Abbreviation for panoramic X-ray
• Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition
• Positional alcohol nystagmus, eye jerkiness
• Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS)

Multimedia technologies

• Pan and scan, to show wide-screen films on narrow screens
• Panchromatic black-and-white film
• Panning (audio), of a signal into a new sound field
• Panning (camera), swivelling

Zoology

• Pan (genus), of apes

Food and drink

• Pan (beer), a Croatian lager
• Pan, a type of cookware
  • Bread pan
  • Frying pan
  • Sheet pan
  • Springform pan
• Pan or Paan, a North Indian term for betel
• Sliced pan bread, popular in Ireland
• Pan dulce (sweet bread)
• Pan-bagnat
• Sugar panning, to add a candy shell to, for example, a nut

Languages

• Punjabi language (ISO 639-3 code "pan")
• Proto-Austronesian language

Organizations

Political parties

• National Action Party (El Salvador) (Partido Acción Nacional) of El Salvador
• National Action Party (Mexico) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Mexico
• National Action Party (Nicaragua) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Nicaragua
• National Advancement Party (Partido de Avanzada Nacional) of Guatemala
• National Autonomist Party (Partido Autonomista Nacional), former Argentine Political Party
• National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional) of Indonesia
• Party of the Nation's Retirees (Partido dos Aposentados da Nação) of Brazil
• People-Animals-Nature (Pessoas-Animais-Natureza) of Portugal

Other organizations

• Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program for the nutritional needs of impoverished families in Puerto Rico
• Pesticide Action Network (PAN), an international NGO network
• Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN)
• Protect Arizona Now, sponsor of Arizona Proposition 200 (2004)
• Pan Club Copenhagen, a gay club

Other uses

• Panama (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code PAN)
• Night of Pan, a mystical state in the philosophy or religion of Thelema
• Pan, Slavic honorifics in Poland and Ukraine
• Pan-pan, a radio state of urgency call
• USA-207, US satellite named "Palladium At Night"

See also

• Pain (disambiguation)
• Panas (disambiguation)
• Pancake
• Pane (disambiguation)