Stan or STAN may refer to:

People

Stan (given name) Stan is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Stanley (name), Stanley or Stanford (name), Stanford or Stanislav (given name), Stanislaus. Notable persons with that name include: * Stan Blake (born 1954), American politician * ...

, a list of people with the given name **

Stan Laurel Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 10 ...

(1890–1965), English comic actor, part of duo Laurel and Hardy * Stan (surname), a Romanian surname * Stan! (born 1964), American author, cartoonist and games designer Steven Brown *

Stan (singer) Stan ( gr, Στράτος Αντιπαριώτης, born Stratos Antipariotis on August 1, 1987 in Athens, Greece), is a Greek singer, songwriter and fashion model. Early career Stratos, better known in Greece by his stage name "Stan", is ...

(born 1987), Greek singer born Stratos Antipariotis

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Stan, an alligator in the 2006 Disney animated film '' The Wild'' * Grunkle Stan, in the animated TV series ''Gravity Falls'' * Stan, in the 2009 American fantasy comedy movie '' 17 Again'' * Stan, from the film '' Crawl'' *

Stan Beeman Stan Beeman is a fictional character in the American television drama series ''The Americans'' on FX, and the supporting male character. He was created by series creator Joe Weisberg and is portrayed by Noah Emmerich. Stan is an FBI agent and a ne ...

, in the TV series ''The Americans'' * Stan Carter, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Stan Edgar, in the Amazon Prime Video series '' The Boys'' * Stan Gable, in the ''

Revenge of the Nerds ''Revenge of the Nerds'' is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, and Bernie Casey. The film's plot chronicles a group of nerds at the fictional Adams College tryi ...

'' film series played by Ted McGinley *

Stan Marsh Stanley Randell William Marsh is a fictional character in the adult animated television series ''South Park''. He is voiced by and loosely based on series co-creator Trey Parker. Stan is one of the series' four central characters, along with Kyl ...

, in the animated TV series ''South Park'' * Stan Ogden, in the British soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * Stan Pembroke, in the American sitcom television series ''

Charles in Charge ''Charles in Charge'' is an American sitcom television series that premiered on October 3, 1984, on CBS. The series was a production of Al Burton Productions and Scholastic Productions in association with Universal Television and starred Scott ...

'' * Stan Smith (''American Dad!''), in the animated TV series ''American Dad!'' * Stan (''Monkey Island''), a salesman in the ''Monkey Island'' adventure games

Music

* "Stan" (song), a 2000 song by Eminem, featuring Dido from ''The Marshall Mathers LP'' **

Stan (fan) A fan or fanatic, sometimes also termed an aficionado or enthusiast, is a person who exhibits strong interest or admiration for something or somebody, such as a celebrity, a sport, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a movie, a vi ...

, slang for an unhealthily obsessed fan * ''Stan'' (EP), by Stan Walker, 2018

Science and technology

Hurricane Stan Hurricane Stan was a relatively weak but deadly tropical cyclone that affected areas of Central America and Mexico in early October 2005. The eighteenth named storm and eleventh hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Stan formed from ...

, a 2005 hurricane * ''

Stanhopea ''Stanhopea'' is a genus of the orchid family (Orchidaceae) from Central and South America. The abbreviation used in horticultural trade is ''Stan.'' The genus is named for the 4th Earl of Stanhope (Philip Henry Stanhope) (1781-1855), president ...

'' (abbreviation Stan), an orchid genus *

Stan (dinosaur) "Stan", also known by its inventory number BHI 3033, is a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' fossil found in the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota, just outside of Buffalo in 1987, and excavated in 1992. It is the fifth most complete '' T. rex'' fossil d ...

, a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' fossil found at the Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, US

Technology

ST segment In electrocardiography, the ST segment connects the QRS complex and the T wave and has a duration of 0.005 to 0.150 sec (5 to 150 ms). It starts at the J point (junction between the QRS complex and ST segment) and ends at the beginning of the ...

, analysis in electrocardiography *

Stan (service) Stan (stylized as Stan.) is an Australian over-the-top streaming service. It was launched on 26 January 2015. Stan originally was founded as StreamCo Media, a 50/50 joint venture between Nine Entertainment Co. and Fairfax Media. In August 2014 ...

, an Australian streaming service *

Stan (software) Stan is a probabilistic programming language for statistical inference written in C++.Stan Development Team. 2015Stan Modeling Language User's Guide and Reference Manual, Version 2.9.0/ref> The Stan language is used to specify a (Bayesian) sta ...

, a programming language for statistical inference * System Trace Audit Number, a key to uniquely identify a card transaction based on the

ISO 8583 ISO 8583 is an international standard for ''financial transaction card originated'' interchange messaging. It is the International Organization for Standardization standard for systems that exchange electronic transactions initiated by cardholde ...

standard

Organisations

* Stan, an Australian streaming video service *

STAN (art-group) STAN (art-group) is the modern art community acting in Ukraine since 1999. Art-group «STAN» contributes the accumulation of creative forces of the region to overcome the cultural crisis and realization the creative projects. Location of group ...

, a Ukrainian cultural organisation *

Mayors and Independents The Mayors and Independents ( cs, Starostové a nezávislí), abbreviated to STAN, is a liberal political party in the Czech Republic that is focused on localism and subsidiarity. The party grew out of four minor parties, including Independe ...

(Czech: ''Starostové a nezávislí''), a political party in the Czech Republic * Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara, a state college in Indonesia *

Standard Chartered Standard Chartered plc is a multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services. Despite being headquartered in the United Kingdom, it does not conduct retail banking in the UK, and around 9 ...

(stock market symbol), British multinational banking and financial services company

Other uses

Stan (horse) Stan (foaled in 1950 in England) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in England and in the United States where he was the 1954 American Champion Male Turf Horse. Racing at age two in 1952, he won six of his eight starts in England before bei ...

, a British-American Thoroughbred racehorse *

-stan The suffix -stan ( fa, ـستان, translit=''stân'' after a vowel; ''estân'' or ''istân'' after a consonant), has the meaning of "a place abounding in" or "a place where anything abounds" in the Persian language. It appears in the names of ...

, a Persian suffix meaning "home of", "place of" or "country" *

Stan, Mirna Stan () is a settlement in the hills to the southeast of Mirna in the Municipality of Mirna in southeastern Slovenia. The municipality is included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower C ...

, a settlement in Slovenia *

Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian Sino-Austronesian or Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian is a proposed language family suggested by Laurent Sagart in 1990. Using reconstructions of Old Chinese, Sagart argued that the Austronesian languages are related to the Sinitic languages phonolog ...

, a proposed language family * Stan (administrative unit), a historical administrative unit in Russia