Stan

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)