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  Chan may refer to:

Persons

  • Chan Marshall, American musician better known as Cat Power
  • Chan (surname), Chinese surname; Mandarin transcription of the same name is Chen (surname)
    Chen (surname)

    Ch?n is one of the most common Chinese family names. It ranks at the 5th most popular surname in Mainland China and the most popular surname in Singapore and Taiwan....
    • Agnes Chan
      Agnes Chan

      Agnes Chan or Agnes Miling Kaneko Chan is a pop singer, a television personality , a Doctor of Education, a professor at Japanese universities, an essayist, a novelist, and the ambassador of the Japan Committee for UNICEF....
      , Hong Kong singer, also famous in Japan
    • Charlie Chan
      Charlie Chan

      File:Charliechanfeb0539.jpgCharlie Chan is a fictional character Chinese American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers, who acknowledged that he was inspired by the career of Honolulu policeman Chang Apana....
      , fictional Chinese-American detective
    • Eason Chan
      Eason Chan

      Eason Chan Yik-Shun is a prominent male singer in Hong Kong's music industry. Undoubtedly one of the most dominant male singers in the post-1997 era of Hong Kong music industry, Eason Chan has been praised by Time magazine as a front runner in the next generation of Cantopop....
      , Hong Kong actor and singer
    • Frankie Chan
      Frankie Chan

      Frankie Chan Fan-kei is a Chinese martial arts actor, Film director, action director, Film producer, and composer. He is best known to Hong Kong action cinema...
      , nephew of Brian Leung
    • Jackie Chan
      Jackie Chan

      Jackie Chan, Silver Bauhinia Star, Member of the Order of the British Empire is an actor, Stage combat, film director, film producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer from Hong Kong....
      , Chinese actor, action choreographer, film director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer
    • Jordan Chan
      Jordan Chan

      Jordan Chan Siu-Chun is a Han Chinese actor and musician from Hong Kong.Chan got his start by enrolling in the TVB Dancers' Training Class in 1985....
       Siu-Chun, Chinese singer
    • Johnny Chan
      Johnny Chan (poker player)

      Johnny Chan , born in Guangzhou , People's Republic of China in 1957, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a professional poker player....
      , poker player
    • Patrick Chan
      Patrick Chan

      Patrick Chan is a Canadian Figure skating. He is the 2008 & 2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, the 2009 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, and the 2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships....
      , Canadian figure skater
    • Priscilla Chan
      Priscilla Chan

      Priscilla Chan Wai-han is a female Cantopop singer in Hong Kong....
      , Hong Kong singer
    • Vincy Chan
      Vincy Chan

      Vincy Chan is a female Cantopop singer from Hong Kong. She was signed by Emperor Entertainment Group, and debuted with the album Vincy on July 27, 2006....
      , Cantopop singer from Hong Kong
    • Wing-tsit Chan
      Wing-tsit Chan

      Professor Wing-tsit Chan was one of the world's leading scholars of China philosophy and religion, active in the United States.Chan was born to a peasant family in rural K'ai p'ing , in the Toisan area of southern China....
      , a Chinese scholar
  • Chan of Cambodia, Cambodian king who ruled from 1642-1659


East Asian expressions

  • Japanese (language) for "in relationship or owning of"
  • -chan, a Japanese honorific title


Computing and media

  • chan-, an abbreviation of IRC channel
  • *chan, a common suffix for the title of an imageboard
    Imageboard

    An imageboard is a type of Internet forum that revolves around the posting of Digital image. The first imageboards were created in Japan, and many English language imageboards today are centered around Japanese culture....
    , such as 4chan
    4chan

    4chan is an English language website. Launched on October 1, 2003, its boards are primarily used for the posting of pictures and discussion of manga and anime....
  • CHAN-TV
    CHAN-TV

    CHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on channel 8, and available via cable television providers in the area on channel 11....
    , a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia


Other

  • Chan, the plant Hyptis suaveolens, a relative of mint and also known as "pignut"
  • Ch'an, a school of Mahayana Buddhism cognate to the Japanese Zen
  • Chan (commune)
    Chan (commune)

    Chan is a commune in Ou Chum District in northeast Cambodia. It contains Chan, Kan Saeung, Kreh, Ta Ngach, Svay, Khmaeng, Krala, Kang Kuy villages and has a population of 1,696....
    , a commune in Cambodia
  • Chan, a village in Chan (commune)
    Chan (commune)

    Chan is a commune in Ou Chum District in northeast Cambodia. It contains Chan, Kan Saeung, Kreh, Ta Ngach, Svay, Khmaeng, Krala, Kang Kuy villages and has a population of 1,696....
    , Cambodia