# 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, Thailand, the administrative capital of Nan province
* Nan River

## People
### Given name

* Nan A. Talese (born 1933), American retired editor
* Nan Achnas (born 1963), Indonesian film director
* Nan Agle (1905–2006), American children's book writer
* Nan Allely, Irish former lawn- and indoor bowler
* Nan Aron (born 1948), American lawyer
* Nan Aspinwall (1880–1964), American oriental dancer, horsewoman, sharpshooter, and roper
* Nan Aye Khine (born 1976), Burmese weightlifter
* Nan B. Frank (1886–1980), American social worker and women's suffrage leader
* Nan Baird (1911–1993), Scottish amateur golfer
* Nan Baker (born 1954), American Republican politician
* Nan Bangs McKinnell (1913–2012), American ceramicist and educator
* Nan Bentzen Skille (born 1945), Norwegian biographer and columnist
* Nan Bernstein Ratner, American professor and board-recognized specialist in child language disorders
* Nan Blair (1891–1944), American screenwriter and literary agent
* Nan Bosler (born 1935), Australian community activist and advocate for young people, the elderly, and people with disabilities
* Nan Braunton (1895–1978), British actress
* Nan Brooks, American children's book illustrator
* Nan Campbell (1926−2013), American politician
* Nan Chauncy (1900–1970), British-born Australian children's writer
* Nan Cohen (born 1968), American poet and teacher
* Nan Cross (1928–2007), South African anti-apartheid and anti-conscription activist
* Nan Cuz (1927–2019), German–Guatemalan painter
* Nan Dieter-Conklin (1926–2014), American radio astronomer
* Nan Dirk de Graaf (born 1958), Dutch sociologist
* Nan Doak-Davis (born 1962), American former long-distance runner
* Nan Dunbar (1928–2005), Scottish academic
* Nan Fairbrother (1913–1971), English writer and lecturer on landscape and land use
* Nan Fry (1945–2016), American poet
* Nan Giese (1922–2012), Australian leader in education and the visual and performing arts
* Nan Gindele (1910–1992), American athlete
* Nan Goldin (born 1953), American photographer and activist
* Nan Green (1904–1984), British communist
* Nan Grey (1918–1993), American film actress
* Nan Grogan Orrock (born 1943), American member of the Georgia House of Representatives and State Senator
* Nan Halperin (1898–1963), Russian-born American singing comedian
* Nan Hayworth (born 1959), American ophthalmologist and former U.S. Representative from New York's 19th Congressional District
* Nan Hoover (1931–2008), Dutch/American-expatriate artist
* Nan Hunt (1918–2015), Australian children's writer
* Nan Hutton (1917–1984), Australian journalist, columnist, and writer
* Nan Inger Östman (1923–2015), Swedish author of children's literature
* Nan Ino Cooper, 10th Baroness Lucas (1880–1958), British nurse and educator
* Nan Joyce (1940–2018), Irish Travellers' rights activist
* Nan Kelley (born c. 1965), American former Miss Mississippi (1985)
* Nan Kempner (1930–2005), American New York socialite
* Nan Kinross (1926–2021), New Zealand nurse and nursing academic
* Nan Knighton, American poet, playwright, and lyricist
* Nan Kyay Ngon (born 1987), Burmese footballer
* Nan Laird (born 1943), American professor of public health
* Nan Lawson Cheney (1897–1985), Canadian painter and medical artist
* Nan Leslie (1926–2000), American actress
* Nan Levinson (born 1949), American writer, journalist, and teacher
* Nan Lurie (1906–1985), American printmaker and engraver
* Nan Marie Jokerst, American professor of electrical- and computer engineering
* Nan Marriott-Watson (1899–1982), British character actress and Broadway theatre performer
* Nan Martin (1927–2010), American actress and comedian
* Nan Mason (1896–1982), American painter and photographer
* Nan McDonald (1921–1974), Australian poet and editor
* Nan McDonald, Canadian candidate in the Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 1984 Canadian federal election
* Nan McKay (1892–1986), Métis librarian
* Nan Melville (1949–2022), American photographer
* Nan Merriman (1920–2012), American operatic mezzo-soprano
* Nan Moe Moe Htwe (born 1983), Burmese politician
* Nan Murphy, Canadian candidate in the Liberal-Progressive Party candidates in the 1953 Manitoba provincial election
* Nan Ni Ni Aye (born 1969), Burmese politician
* Nan Nyunt Swe (1923–2010), Burmese writer
* Nan Peete (born 1938), American Episcopal priest
* Nan Phelps (1904–1990), American folk artist
* Nan Rae (born 1944), Scottish former competitive swimmer
* Nan Ribera (born 1975), Spanish retired footballer
* Nan Rich (born 1942), American member of the Florida Senate and former member of the House of Representatives
* Nan C. Robertson (1926–2009), American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and instructor in journalism
* Nan Ryan (1936–2017), American writer of romance novels
* Nan Sandar Hla Htun (born 1993), Burmese actress, model, and former beauty queen
* Nan Sheets (1885–1976), American painter, printmaker, and museum director
* Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), Scottish Modernist writer and poet
* Nan Su Yati Soe (born 1987), Burmese actress, model, singer, and TV host
* Nan Thuzar Win (born 1981), Burmese politician
* Nan Tom Teaimín de Búrca, Irish traditional sean-nós singer
* Nan Wood Honeyman, (1881–1970), American first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Oregon
* Nan Youngman (1906–1995), English painter and educationalist

### Chinese name

* Nan Geng, a king of the Shang dynasty of ancient China
* Nan Hanchen (1895–1967), Chinese governor
* Nan Hu, Chinese physician-scientist, molecular geneticist, and cancer epidemiologist
* Nan Huai-Chin (1918–2012), Chinese Buddhist monk, religious scholar, teacher, and writer
* Nan Lin (born 1938), Chinese professor of sociology
* Nan Qi (artist) (born 1960), Chinese artist
* Nan Rendong (1945–2017), Chinese astronomer of Manchu descent
* Nan Song (disambiguation)
* Nan Xiaoheng (born 1995), Chinese footballer
* Nan Yunqi (born 1993), Chinese football player
* Nan Zhang (actress) (born 1986), Chinese-American actress
* King Nan of Zhou (r. 314–256 BC), last ruler of the Chinese Zhou dynasty
* Luo Nan (born 1986), Chinese swimmer
* Sima Nan (born 1956), Chinese television pundit and journalist
* Song Nan (born 1990), Chinese figure skater
* Wang Nan (disambiguation)
* Yu Nan (born 1978), Chinese actress
* Zhang Nan (disambiguation)
* Zhou Nan (born 1927), Chinese politician and diplomat

### Family name

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

### 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

### Fictional people

* Nan (American Horror Story)

### 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 Joanie Taylor, from the Catherine Tate Show

## Organisations

* National Action Network, American civil rights organization
* Nishnawbe Aski Nation
* Northern Access Network, an unlicensed television system in Canada launched in the late 1970s by David Brough

## 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 NaN$_3$

## 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
* Tandyr nan, Uzbek flatbread
* Naan, flatbread