# Stan

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**Stan** or **STAN** may refer to:

## People

- [Stan (given name)](/source/Stan_(given_name)), a list of people with the given name
- [Stan (surname)](/source/Stan_(surname)), a Romanian surname
- [Stan!](/source/Stan!) (born 1964), American author, cartoonist and games designer Steven Brown
- [Stan (singer)](/source/Stan_(singer)) (born 1987), Greek singer, born Stratos Antipariotis

## Arts and entertainment

### Fictional characters

- [Stan Marsh](/source/Stan_Marsh), in the animated TV series *South Park*
- Stan, an alligator in the 2006 Disney animated film *[The Wild](/source/The_Wild)*
- [Grunkle Stan](/source/Grunkle_Stan), in the animated TV series *Gravity Falls*
- Stan, in the 2009 American fantasy comedy movie *[17 Again](/source/17_Again_(film)#Cast)*
- Stan, from the film *[Crawl](/source/Crawl_(2019_film))*
- [Stan Beeman](/source/Stan_Beeman), in the TV series *The Americans*
- [Stan Carter](/source/Stan_Carter), in the British soap opera *EastEnders*
- Stan Edgar, in the Amazon Prime Video series *[The Boys](/source/The_Boys_(TV_series))*
- Stan Gable, in the *[Revenge of the Nerds](/source/Revenge_of_the_Nerds_(film_series)#Cast)* film series played by Ted McGinley
- [Stan Ogden](/source/Stan_Ogden), in the British soap opera *Coronation Street*
- Stan Pembroke, in the American sitcom television series *[Charles in Charge](/source/Charles_in_Charge#Cast)*
- [Stan Smith (*American Dad!*)](/source/Stan_Smith_(American_Dad!)), in the animated TV series *American Dad!*
- [Stan (*Monkey Island*)](/source/Stan_(Monkey_Island)), a salesman in the *Monkey Island* adventure games

### Music

- [Stan](/source/Stan_(duo)), a UK [one hit wonder](/source/One_hit_wonder) duo from 1993
- ["Stan" (song)](/source/Stan_(song)), a 2000 song by Eminem, sampling Dido from *The Marshall Mathers LP* - [Stan (fan)](/source/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](/source/East_Atlanta_Love_Letter)*, 2018
- [*Stan* (EP)](/source/Stan_(EP)), by Stan Walker, 2018

## Science and technology

- [List of storms named Stan](/source/List_of_storms_named_Stan), tropical cyclones named as such - [Hurricane Stan](/source/Hurricane_Stan), the deadliest hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
- *[Stanhopea](/source/Stanhopea)* (abbreviation Stan), an orchid genus
- [Stan (dinosaur)](/source/Stan_(dinosaur)), a *Tyrannosaurus rex* fossil found at the Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, US

### Technology

- [ST segment](/source/ST_segment), analysis in electrocardiography
- [Stan (streaming service)](/source/Stan_(streaming_service)), an Australian video streaming service
- [Stan (software)](/source/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](/source/ISO_8583) standard

## Organisations

- [STAN (art-group)](/source/STAN_(art-group)), a Ukrainian cultural organisation
- [Mayors and Independents](/source/Mayors_and_Independents) (Czech: *Starostové a nezávislí*), a political party in the Czech Republic
- [Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara](/source/Sekolah_Tinggi_Akuntansi_Negara), a state college in Indonesia
- [Standard Chartered](/source/Standard_Chartered), British multinational banking and financial services company whose stock market symbol is "STAN"

## Places

- [Stan, Mirna](/source/Stan,_Mirna), a settlement in Slovenia
- Stan, a village and part of [Vítanov](/source/V%C3%ADtanov) in the Czech Republic

## Other uses

- [Stan](/source/Fan_(person)#"Stan"_fans), "Stan" fans, excessively avid fans and supporters of a celebrity, TV show, group, musical artist, film or film series - [Stan Twitter](/source/Stan_Twitter), a community of Twitter users
- [Stan (horse)](/source/Stan_(horse)), a British-American Thoroughbred racehorse
- [-stan](/source/-stan), a Persian suffix meaning "home of", "place of" or "country"
- [Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian](/source/Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian), a proposed language family
- [Stan (administrative unit)](/source/Stan_(administrative_unit)), a historical administrative unit in Russia

## See also

- [Gamla Stan](/source/Gamla_Stan), the old town of Stockholm, Sweden
- [Stanley (disambiguation)](/source/Stanley_(disambiguation))
- [Stanly (disambiguation)](/source/Stanly_(disambiguation))
- [Stano (disambiguation)](/source/Stano_(disambiguation))
- [Stanton (disambiguation)](/source/Stanton_(disambiguation))

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