Chan may refer to:

Places

  • Chan (commune), Cambodia
  • Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada

People

  • Chan Caldwell (1920–2000), Canadian football coach
  • Chan Gailey (born 1952), American football coach
  • Chan Kai-kit (born 1952), Macanese businessman
  • Chan Reec Madut, South Sudanese jurist
  • Chan Romero (1941–2024), American rock and roll performer
  • Chan Santokhi (born 1959), Surinamese politician
  • Ta Chan, nom de guerre of Cambodian war criminal Mam Nai
  • Bang Chan (born 1997), Australian singer and producer of Korean descent, member of boy band Stray Kids
  • Kang Yu-chan (born 1997), formerly known as Chan, Korean singer, member of boy band A.C.E

Computing and media

  • chan-, an abbreviation for channels in Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
  • chan, a common suffix for the title of an imageboard

As an acronym/initialism

  • African Nations Championship or Championnat d'Afrique des Nations (CHAN), an African football tournament
  • CHAN-DT, a TV station in Vancouver, Canada

Other uses

  • Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames
  • Chan Buddhism, a school of Mahayana Buddhism
  • Chan (honorific), a Japanese suffix which expresses endearment
  • Chan (), a form of Thai poetry
  • "Chans" (Kent song), a song by Swedish band Kent
  • Chan, the plant Hyptis suaveolens, a relative of mint also known as "pignut"

See also

  • Chhan (disambiguation)
  • Chen (surname), pronounced in Cantonese as Chan
  • Chung (surname)
  • Zen (disambiguation), Japanese Buddhist school originating from Chan Buddhism
  • Dhyana (disambiguation), Indian Mahayana Buddhist school, origin of the Chan and Zen schools