Stan

Look up Stan, stan, or -stan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Stan may refer to:

People

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

Fictional characters

• Stan Beeman, in the TV series The Americans
• Stan Carter, in the British soap opera EastEnders
• Stan Marsh, one of the main characters in the animated TV series South Park
• Stan Ogden, in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Stan Smith (American Dad!), one of the main characters in the animated TV series American Dad!
• Stan (Monkey Island), the recurring salesman character in the Monkey Island adventure games
• Grunkle Stan, one of the main characters in the animated TV series Gravity Falls

Nature

• Stan (dinosaur), a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil found at the Hell Creek Formation in the U.S. state of South Dakota
• Stan (horse), a British-American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Hurricane Stan, a 2005 hurricane
• Stan, an abbreviation for the orchid genus Stanhopea

Technology

• ST segment, analysis (in electrocardiography)
• Stan (software), a software package for obtaining Bayesian inference using the No-U-Turn sampler
• STAN (System Trace Audit Number), a key to uniquely identify a card transaction based on the ISO 8583 standard

Other

• -stan, a Persian suffix meaning "home of", "place of" or "country"
• Stan, Mirna, a settlement in Slovenia
• Mayors and Independents (Czech: Starostové a nezávislí, abbreviated STAN), a political party in the Czech Republic
• Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara, a state college in Indonesia
• "Stan," a 2000 song by Eminem, featuring Dido
• Stan, slang for an obsessed fan, named after the 2000 song "Stan" by Eminem
• Standard Chartered', s stock market symbol
• Stan, an Australian streaming company
• Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian, a proposed language family
• Stan, an administrative unit of the Russian Empire.