Stan

Stan may refer to:

• -stan, a Persian suffix meaning "home of", "place of" or "country"
• Hurricane Stan, the 19th storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
• Mayors and Independents (STAN) - political party in the Czech Republic
• Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara, a state college in Indonesia
• "Stan" (song), a song by Eminem, originally featuring Dido
  • Stan (fan), a person who is fan of a celebrity; term inspired by the song
• Stan, Bulgaria, a village in Novi Pazar Municipality, Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria
• Standard Chartered's stock market symbol
• Stan (company), an Australian streaming company

People:

• Stan, short for Stanislav (given name)
• Stan, short for Stanley (name)
• Stan Galazin, American football player
• Professor Stan Heptinstall, British academic and politician
• Stan Lee, American comic book writer
• Stan Mikita, Slovak-Canadian ice hockey player
• Stan Musial, Hall of Fame Baseball Player for the St. Louis Cardinals
• Stan Olejniczak, American football player
• Stan Rogers, Canadian folk singer and songwriter
• Stan! (born Steven Brown), American author, cartoonist and games designer
• Stan (singer), born Stratos Antipariotis, Greek singer
• Stan (surname), an English surname
• Stan (given name), an English given name

Fictional characters:

• Stan Marsh, one of the main characters in the animated TV series South Park
• Stan (Monkey Island), the recurring salesman character in the Monkey Island adventure games
• Stan Smith (American Dad!), one of the main characters in the animated TV series American Dad!
• Grunkle Stan, one of the main characters in the animated TV series Gravity Falls

Nature:

• Stan (dinosaur), a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil found in Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, U.S.
• Stan (horse), a British-American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Stan, abbreviation for orchid genus Stanhopea

Technology:

• ST segment analysis (in electrocardiography)
• Stan (software), a software package for obtaining Bayesian inference using the No-U-Turn sampler