Chan may refer to:
Places
- Chan (commune), Cambodia
- Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada
People
- Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田)
- Chan Caldwell (1920–2000), Canadian football coach
- Chan Gailey (born 1952), American football coach
- Chan Kai-kit (born 1952), Macanese businessman
- Chan Reec Madut, South Sudanese jurist
- Chan Romero (born 1941), American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and musicians
- Chan Santokhi (born 1959), President of Suriname and former chief of police
- Ta Chan, nom de guerre of Cambodian war criminal Mam Nai
Computing and media
- chan-, an abbreviation for channels in Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
- chan, a common suffix for the title of an imageboard
As an acronym/initialism
- African Nations Championship or Championnat d'Afrique des Nations (CHAN), an African football tournament
- CHAN-DT, a TV station in Vancouver, Canada
Other uses
- Chan Buddhism (禅), a school of Mahayana Buddhism
- -chan, a Japanese suffix which expresses endearment
- Chan (ฉันท์), a form of Thai poetry
- "Chans" (Kent song)
- Chan, the plant Hyptis suaveolens, a relative of mint also known as "pignut"
See also
- Chen (surname), pronounced in Cantonese as Chan (陳)
- Chung (surname)
- Zen (disambiguation), Japanese Buddhist school originating from Chan Buddhism
- Dhyana (disambiguation), Indian Mahayana Buddhist school, origin of the Chan and Zen schools
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