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Chan may refer to:

Nature

• Chan, the plant Hyptis suaveolens, a relative of mint also known as "pignut"

Geography and society

• Chan tribe, Champa
• Chan (commune), a commune in Cambodia
• Chan (ฉันท์), a form of Thai poetry
• Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in the Northwest Territories of Canada on Hwy #3

People

Surname

• Chan (surname), Chinese surname; Mandarin transcription of the same name is Chen (surname)
  • Agnes Chan (born 1955), Hong Kong singer, also famous in Japan
  • Charlie Chan, fictional Chinese-American
  • Eason Chan (born 1974), Hong Kong actor and singer
  • Francis Chan (born 1967), American preacher
  • Frankie Chan (born 1955), nephew of Brian Leung
  • Jackie Chan (born 1954), Chinese actor, action choreographer, film director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer
  • Jordan Chan Siu-Chun (born 1967), Chinese singer
  • Johnny Chan (poker player) (born 1957), poker player
  • Kim Chan (1917–2008), American actor
  • Margaret Chan (born 1947), Director of World Health Organization
  • Moses Chan (born 1971), Hong Kong actor
  • Leighton Chan (born 1961), Physician Researcher
  • Patrick Chan (born 1990), Canadian figure skater
  • Priscilla Chan (singer) (born 1965), Hong Kong singer
  • Priscilla Chan (philanthropist) (born 1985), philanthropist and wife of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg
  • Vincy Chan (born 1982), Cantonese pop singer from Hong Kong
  • Wing-tsit Chan (1901–1994), Chinese scholar
  • Yau-Man Chan (born 1952), Chief Technology Officer for Computing Services, Network Services, and Telecommunications at the University of California, Berkeley's College of Chemistry
  • Alexandre Chan (born 1942) famous architect and awarded bridge designer.
  • Andrew Chan, an Australian criminal who was on death row in Indonesia; he was a member of Bali 9 and was executed in April 2015

Given name

• Chan Marshall, American musician better known as Cat Power
• Mam Nai, former lieutenant of the internal security branch of Khmer Rouge

East Asian expressions

• Zen (禪), a school of Mahayana Buddhism, pronounced Chán in Mandarin Chinese
• Chán (禅), a school of Mahayana Buddhism, primarily a Chinese Buddhist lineage
• -chan, a Japanese honorific title

Entertainment

• "Chans" (Kent song)

Computing and media

• chan-, an abbreviation of IRC channel
  • chan, a common suffix for the title of an imageboard, such as 4chan
• CHAN-DT, a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia

Other

• African Championship of Nations, also known as Championnat Afrique de Nations (CHAN), an African football tournament

• Disambiguation pages