Stan or STAN may refer to:

People

  • Stan (given name), a list of people with the given name
  • Stan (surname), a Romanian surname
  • Stan! (born 1964), American author, cartoonist and games designer Steven Brown
  • Stan (singer) (born 1987), Greek singer, born Stratos Antipariotis

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Stan Marsh, in the animated TV series South Park
  • Stan, an alligator in the 2006 Disney animated film The Wild
  • Grunkle Stan, in the animated TV series Gravity Falls
  • Stan, in the 2009 American fantasy comedy movie 17 Again
  • Stan, from the film Crawl
  • Stan Beeman, in the TV series The Americans
  • Stan Carter, in the British soap opera EastEnders
  • Stan Edgar, in the Amazon Prime Video series The Boys
  • Stan Gable, in the Revenge of the Nerds film series played by Ted McGinley
  • Stan Ogden, in the British soap opera Coronation Street
  • Stan Pembroke, in the American sitcom television series Charles in Charge
  • Stan Smith (American Dad!), in the animated TV series American Dad!
  • Stan (Monkey Island), a salesman in the Monkey Island adventure games

Music

  • Stan, a UK one hit wonder duo from 1993
  • "Stan" (song), a 2000 song by Eminem, sampling Dido from The Marshall Mathers LP
  • Stan (fan), slang for a fan, often of celebrity culture and sometimes used in a negative way
  • "Stan", a song by 6lack from East Atlanta Love Letter, 2018
  • Stan (EP), by Stan Walker, 2018

Science and technology

  • List of storms named Stan, tropical cyclones named as such
  • Hurricane Stan, the deadliest hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Stanhopea (abbreviation Stan), an orchid genus
  • Stan (dinosaur), a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil found at the Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, US

Technology

  • ST segment, analysis in electrocardiography
  • Stan (streaming service), an Australian video streaming service
  • Stan (software), a programming language for statistical inference
  • System Trace Audit Number, a key to uniquely identify a card transaction based on the ISO 8583 standard

Organisations

  • STAN (art-group), a Ukrainian cultural organisation
  • Mayors and Independents (Czech: Starostové a nezávislí), a political party in the Czech Republic
  • Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara, a state college in Indonesia
  • Standard Chartered, British multinational banking and financial services company whose stock market symbol is "STAN"

Places

  • Stan, Mirna, a settlement in Slovenia
  • Stan, a village and part of Vítanov in the Czech Republic

Other uses

  • Stan, "Stan" fans, excessively avid fans and supporters of a celebrity, TV show, group, musical artist, film or film series
  • Stan Twitter, a community of Twitter users
  • Stan (horse), a British-American Thoroughbred racehorse
  • -stan, a Persian suffix meaning "home of", "place of" or "country"
  • Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian, a proposed language family
  • Stan (administrative unit), a historical administrative unit in Russia

See also

  • Gamla Stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden
  • Stanley (disambiguation)
  • Stanly (disambiguation)
  • Stano (disambiguation)
  • Stanton (disambiguation)