Stan

Stan may refer to:

People

• Stan (given name), a list of people with the given name
• Stan (surname), a Romanian surname
• Stan!, American author, cartoonist and games designer Steven Brown
• Stan (singer), Greek singer born Stratos Antipariotis

Fictional characters

• Stan Beeman, in the TV series The Americans
• Stan Carter, in the British soap opera EastEnders
• Stan Marsh, one of the main characters in the animated TV series South Park
• Stan Ogden, in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Stan Smith (American Dad!), one of the main characters in the animated TV series American Dad!
• Stan (Monkey Island), the recurring salesman character in the Monkey Island adventure games
• Grunkle Stan, one of the main characters in the animated TV series Gravity Falls

Nature

• Stan (dinosaur), a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil found in Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, U.S.
• Stan (horse), a British-American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Stan, abbreviation for orchid genus Stanhopea

Technology

• ST segment analysis (in electrocardiography)
• Stan (software), a software package for obtaining Bayesian inference using the No-U-Turn sampler
• STAN (System Trace Audit Number), a key to uniquely identify a card transaction based on the ISO 8583 standard.

Other

• -stan, a Persian suffix meaning "home of", "place of" or "country"
• Stan, Mirna, Slovenia, a settlement
• Mayors and Independents (Czech: Starostové a nezávislí, abbreviated STAN), a political party in the Czech Republic
• Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara, a state college in Indonesia
• "Stan" (song), a song by Eminem, originally featuring Dido
• Stan (fan), slang for an obsessed fan, named after the above song
• Standard Chartered's stock market symbol
• Stan (company), an Australian streaming company