# Chan

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'''Chan''' may refer to:

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==Places==
*[Chan (commune)](/source/Chan_(commune)), Cambodia
*Chan Lake, by [Chan Lake Territorial Park](/source/Chan_Lake_Territorial_Park) in Northwest Territories, Canada

==People==
*[Chan Caldwell](/source/Chan_Caldwell) (1920–2000), Canadian football coach
*[Chan Gailey](/source/Chan_Gailey) (born 1952), American football coach
*[Chan Kai-kit](/source/Chan_Kai-kit) (born 1952), Macanese businessman
*[Chan Reec Madut](/source/Chan_Reec_Madut), South Sudanese jurist
*[Chan Romero](/source/Chan_Romero) (1941–2024), American rock and roll performer
*[Chan Santokhi](/source/Chan_Santokhi) (born 1959), Surinamese politician
*[Ta Chan](/source/Ta_Chan), nom de guerre of Cambodian war criminal Mam Nai
*[Bang Chan](/source/Bang_Chan) (born 1997), Australian singer and producer of Korean descent, member of boy band Stray Kids
*[Kang Yu-chan](/source/Kang_Yu-chan) (born 1997), formerly known as Chan, Korean singer, member of boy band A.C.E

==Computing and media==
*chan-, an abbreviation for channels in [Internet Relay Chat](/source/Internet_Relay_Chat) (IRC)
*chan, a common suffix for the title of an [imageboard](/source/imageboard)

==As an acronym/initialism ==
*[African Nations Championship](/source/African_Nations_Championship) or ''Championnat d'Afrique des Nations'' (CHAN), an African football tournament
*[CHAN-DT](/source/CHAN-DT), a TV station in Vancouver, Canada

==Other uses==
*[Chan (surname)](/source/Chan_(surname)), romanization of various Chinese surnames
*[Chan Buddhism](/source/Chan_Buddhism), a school of Mahayana Buddhism
*[Chan (honorific)](/source/Chan_(honorific)), a Japanese suffix which expresses endearment
*Chan ({{lang|th|ฉันท์}}), a form of [Thai poetry](/source/Thai_poetry)
*["Chans" (Kent song)](/source/Chans_(Kent_song)), a song by Swedish band Kent
*Chan, the plant ''[Hyptis suaveolens](/source/Hyptis_suaveolens)'', a relative of mint also known as "pignut"

==See also==
*[Chhan (disambiguation)](/source/Chhan_(disambiguation))
*[Chen (surname)](/source/Chen_(surname)), pronounced in Cantonese as Chan
*[Chung (surname)](/source/Chung_(surname))
*[Zen (disambiguation)](/source/Zen_(disambiguation)), Japanese Buddhist school originating from Chan Buddhism
*[Dhyana (disambiguation)](/source/Dhyana_(disambiguation)), Indian Mahayana Buddhist school, origin of the Chan and Zen schools

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