Kan

Kan or KAN may refer to:

People

• Kan (surname), including a list of people with the surname
• Kanye West, American musician who is sometimes known as just "Kan"

In Japan

• KAN (born 1962), Japanese singer-songwriter
• Kan Kimura (born 1966), Japanese scholar
• Kan Otake (born 1983), Japanese professional baseball player
• Kan Shimozawa (1892–1968), Japanese novelist

Places

• Kan (river), a tributary of the Yenisey in Russia
• Kan District of Iran
• Kan, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Batken Region
• Kananook railway station, Melbourne
• Kannapolis (Amtrak station), North Carolina, US, station code
• IATA code of the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport at Kano, Nigeria
• Kansas, a U.S. state

In language

• In Chinese, a dated transliteration of Gan
• One of several languages

In media

Literature

• Kan, one of the Bacabs (deities) of Mayan mythology

Music

• KAN, UK folk supergroup with Brian Finnegan and Aidan O'Rourke
• Kan, the Israeli entry to the 1991 Eurovision

Television

• Kan (Hebrew: כאן, lit. 'Here'), the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation

In science and technology

• KAN, the Iwasawa decomposition of a Lie group in mathematics
• Kan (貫), a Japanese unit of mass equal to 3.75 kg
• Kan (간), a Korean unit of length roughly equal to 2 meters
• Kanamycin A, a PDP ligand
• Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, a type of artificial neural network architecture

Other uses

• Club of Committed Non-Party Members (KAN), Czech Republic
• Variation of the Sicilian Defence in chess
• A string of Japanese mon coins

See also

• Can (disambiguation)
• Kaan (disambiguation)
• Kahn (German surname)
• Kane (disambiguation)
• Kang (disambiguation)
• Kann (disambiguation)
• Khan (disambiguation)
• 幹 (disambiguation)