Pan or PAN may refer to:

Common meanings

  • Pan (cooking), a piece of cooking equipment
  • Frying pan, a type of cooking pan
  • Saucepan, a type of cooking pan
  • Sauté pan, a type of cooking pan
  • Pan (god), a Greek deity, often depicted with specific goat features
  • Panning (camera), (short for panoramic), film and photography technique in which the camera is swivelled horizontally from a fixed spot

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

Literature and publishing

  • Pan (Hamsun novel), by Knut Hamsun. 1894.
  • Pan (Clune novel), by Michael Clune. 2025.
  • 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.

Food

  • Harina P.A.N., a pre-cooked corn meal
  • Pan or Paan, a North Indian term for betel

Languages

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

Organizations

  • Banco Pan, a Brazilian midsize commercial bank
  • Pan Club Copenhagen, a gay club
  • Palo Alto Networks, an American cybersecurity company
  • Pesticide Action Network, an international NGO network
  • Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk)
  • Protect Arizona Now, sponsor of 2004 Arizona Proposition 200

People

  • Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
  • Pen Ran (), Cambodian singer and songwriter whose name is sometimes Romanized as Pan Ron

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

Science and technology

Astronomy

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

Biology

  • Pan (genus), a genus that includes bonobos and chimpanzees

Chemistry

  • Peroxyacyl nitrates
  • Phthalic anhydride
  • Polyacrylonitrile, a polymer of acrylonitrile
  • Protactinium nitride, chemical formula PaN

Computing

  • Pan (newsreader), for Usenet
  • Pan (programming language)
  • Personal area network

Medicine

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

Multimedia technologies

  • Panning (audio), of a signal into a new sound field

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
  • Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program
  • 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
  • Pancoran LRT station, a light rail station in Jakarta, Indonesia
  • USA-207, an American satellite also known as PAN ("Palladium At Night")
  • Bedpan
  • Permanent account number, for taxpayers in India and Nepal
  • Primary account number, another term for the payment card number of a payment card
  • Pan (chimpanzee), a chimp known for his appearance on Japanese variety shows

See also

  • Pan Pan (disambiguation)
  • Pan-pan, a radio state of urgency call