# Pan

Pan or PAN may refer to:

## Food

* Pan (cooking), a piece of cooking equipment
* Harina P.A.N., a pre-cooked corn meal
* Pan or Paan, a North Indian term for betel

## Prefix

* Pan-, a prefix meaning "all", "of everything", or "involving all members" of a group

## People

* Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
* Pen Ran (c. 1944 – c. 1979), Cambodian singer and songwriter whose name is sometimes Romanized as Pan Ron

## 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 Dragon Ball media
* Peter Pan, created by James Barrie

### Films

* Pan (1922 film), Norwegian film
* Pan (1995 film), a Danish/Norwegian/German film
* Pan (2015 film), film

### 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

#### Groups and labels

* Pan (band), a Filipino folk/punk rock band
* PAN (record label), a record label and art platform
* Pan, a Turkish band which performed "Bana Bana" at the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest

#### Works

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

### Sculpture

* Pan (Riccio), a 1510s bronze sculpture by Andrea Riccio
* Pan (White), a public artwork by Roger White, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.

## Religion and mythology

* Pan (god), a Greek deity, often depicted with goat horns

## Science and technology
### Astronomy

* Pan (crater), on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
* Pan (moon), of Saturn
* Pan, a name for Jupiter XI, now Carme (moon), 1955–1975
* 4450 Pan, an asteroid

### Biology and healthcare

* Pan (genus), the genus including chimpanzees and bonobos
* Pan, abbreviation for panoramic X-ray
* Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS)
* Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition
* Positional alcohol nystagmus, eye jerkiness

### Chemistry

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

### Computing

* Pan (newsreader), for Usenet
* Pan (programming language)
* Personal area network
* Permanent account number (PAN card), for taxpayers in India and Nepal
* Primary account number, another term for the payment card number of a payment card

### Multimedia technologies

* Panning (audio), of a signal into a new sound field
* Panning (camera), swivelling

## Languages

* Proto-Austronesian language, a proto-language commonly abbreviated PAN or PAn
* Punjabi language, ISO 639-3 code "pan"

## 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

* Banco Pan, a Brazilian midsize commercial bank
* Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program
* Pan Club Copenhagen, a gay club
* Pesticide Action Network, an international NGO network
* Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk)
* Protect Arizona Now, sponsor of 2004 Arizona Proposition 200

## Other uses

* pan, a term for a dry lake bed
* Gold panning, a mining technique
* Pan (horse), an early 19th century British thoroughbred racehorse and sire
* Flash pan, a small receptacle for priming powder on muzzle-loading firearms
* Pan, Slavic honorifics in Poland and Ukraine
* Pansexuality, a sexual orientation (often known as "pan")
* PAN, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for Panama
* PAN, the National Rail code for Pangbourne railway station in the county of Berkshire, UK
* USA-207, US satellite named "Palladium At Night"
* Bedpan