Pac-Man (disambiguation)

Pac-Man is a popular 1980 arcade game by Namco and the name of its title character.

Pac-Man may also refer to:

Pac-Man (1982 video game), a 1982 port of the arcade game for the Atari 2600
Pac-Man (character), the titular protagonist of the franchise
Pac-Man (series), the original game and its sequels and spinoffs
Pac-Man (TV series), the short-lived cartoon series
Pac-Man (album), the 1992 EP produced by Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) under the Power Pill alias, which sampled heavily from the game's audio
"Pacman", an unreleased song by "Weird Al" Yankovic, and a parody of The Beatles' song "Taxman"
Pacman, the Drosophila melanogaster orthologue of the exoribonuclease enzyme XRN1
Pacman frog, the name given to several varieties of frog with large mouths and abdomens
Pacman Nebula, a region of space formally known as NCG 281
Lilac chaser, an optical phenomenon also known as the Pacman illusion
Pac-Man defense, a legal strategy where a smaller company fights off a takeover by purchasing the larger company
slang for a coin acceptor
The codename of a covert propaganda operation undertaken by the South African military to discredit the anti-apartheid movement by the International Freedom Foundation
Operation Pacman, a campaign enacted by the New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries in 2002 to apprehend illegal paua and rock lobster poachers
Team Pacman, a wrestling team
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, an animated television series
1-Pacman, a Philippine party-list group

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Pac-Man is often used as a nickname to refer to the following people:

Manny Pacquiao (born 1978), Filipino boxer and politician
Adam Jones (American football) (born 1983), National Football League player
MC PacMan, a member of Portuguese hip-hop group Da Weasel
Danny McGavin, a fictional police officer portrayed by Sean Penn in the 1988 film Colors