Tan or TAN may refer to:
Businesses and organisations
- Black and Tans, a nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence. By extension "Tans" can now also colloquially refer to English or British people in general, especially disparagingly.
- TAN Books, a Catholic publishing company
- FC Rubin-TAN Kazan, a Russian professional ice hockey club in Kazan in 1991-94
- Transportes Aereos Nacionales, an airline based in Honduras known as TAN Airlines
People
- Tan (surname) (譚), a Chinese surname
- Chen (surname) (陳), a Chinese surname, pronounced "Tan" in Min Nan languages
- Laozi, posthumous name "Tan" or "Dān" (聃), philosopher of ancient China
- Leborgne, nicknamed Tan, a patient of Paul Broca's, on whose autopsy he identified Broca's area
- TAN (musician) (born 1990), Malaysian pop singer
- Tan Sağtürk (born 1969), Turkish ballet dancer
Places
China
- Tan (state), an ancient viscountcy in eastern Shandong Province, China
- Tai'an railway station (Shandong), China Railway pinyin code TAN
Vietnam
- Tân An, Bắc Giang Province, a northeastern commune and village
- Tân An, Long An Province, the capital city of Long An Province, Mekong Delta
- Tân An Province, a former province of South Vietnam
Elsewhere
- Tan Track, also known as "The Tan", a running track in Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
- Tanzania (IOC and FIFA trigram: TAN), a country
- Taunton Municipal Airport (IATA airport code:
TAN), in Taunton, Massachusetts, US
Science and technology
- Tan (color), a pale shade of brown
- Tanning (leather), the process of making leather from hides
- Tangent (tan), one of the trigonometric functions
- Ti-6Al-7Nb, a titanium alloy containing aluminum and niobium
- Total acid number, or TAN, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity
- Transaction authentication number or TAN, in electronic banking
Biology
- Tan (goat pattern), a goat color pattern
- Tanbark, or tan, the bark of certain species of tree
- Sun tanning, the darkening of skin in response to ultraviolet light
- Sunless tanning, the darkening of skin without ultraviolet light
- Tropical ataxic neuropathy
Other uses
- -tan, a Japanese honorific
- Tan, an album by the Polish rock band Kult
- TAN (group), South Korean boy band
- Tan (newspaper), a newspaper in Turkey
- Tan (weekly newspaper), a newspaper in Kosovo
- Irish War of Independence, sometimes called the "Black and Tan war" or "Tan war"
- Tahn (Armenian թան tʻan), a yoghurt-based drink from the Middle East
- Tanfana, or Tan, an ancient European goddess
- Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number (TAN), an Indian tax code
- TAN, marketing name for Semitan, operates public transport in Nantes, France
See also
- Dan (disambiguation) (Tan is the older romanization of Dan in Chinese)
- Tannin (disambiguation)
- Tanning (disambiguation)
- TANS (disambiguation)
- Tanzhou (disambiguation), a Chinese placename originally meaning "Tan District" and now meaning "Tan City"
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