Kan or KAN may refer to:

Places

Kan (river) The Kan (russian: Кан) river is a right tributary of the Yenisey in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia. It is long and drains a basin of . Its valley forms the southern boundary of the Yenisey Range.

, a tributary of the Yenisey in Russia * Kan District of Iran * Kan, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Batken Region *

Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport is an international airport serving Kano, the capital city of Kano State of Nigeria. It was a Royal Air Force station before the country became independent. It is the main airport serving northern N ...

, Kano, Nigeria, IATA code * Kannapolis (Amtrak station), North Carolina, US, station code *

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to th ...

, a U.S. state

People

* Kan (surname), including a list of people with the surname * One of the

Bacab Bacab () is the generic Yucatec Maya name for the four prehispanic aged deities of the interior of the earth and its water deposits. The Bacabs have more recent counterparts in the lecherous, drunken old thunder deities of the Gulf Coast regions. ...

s of Mayan mythology *

Kan (musician) , known by his stage name Kan (commonly stylized as KAN), is a Japanese singer-songwriter. In 1983, he joined his first band, which was called Annette, before going solo in 1984. Kan wrote the background music for a 1986 film directed by Nobuhik ...

, Japanese singer-songwriter *

Kan Shimozawa was a Japanese novelist and historical writer. He was born February 1, 1892, in Atsuta, Hokkaido, and died July 19, 1968. Sometimes his name is spelled ''Kan Shimosawa'' (in ''New Tale of Zatoichi'', ''Zatoichi the Fugitive''). His real name was U ...

(1892–1968), Japanese novelist *

Kan Otake is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for 19 seasons for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp and Yomiuri Giants. Career In , Hiroshima Toyo Carp selected him in the first round. Otake represent ...

(born 1983), Japanese professional baseball player

Music

* "Kan" (song), Israeli Eurovision song in 1991 * KAN, UK folk supergroup with

Brian Finnegan Brian Finnegan (born 20 August 1969) is an Irish flute and tin whistle player from Armagh. Finnegan began playing whistle at age 8 and flute at age 10 as a student of the Armagh Pipers Club under the tuition of the Vallely family. He first cam ...

and Aidan O'Rourke

In science and technology

* ''kan'', PDP ligand, kanamycin A *

Iwasawa decomposition In mathematics, the Iwasawa decomposition (aka KAN from its expression) of a semisimple Lie group generalises the way a square real matrix can be written as a product of an orthogonal matrix and an upper triangular matrix (QR decomposition, a cons ...

of a Lie group in mathematics

Weights and measures

* A Japanese unit of mass () * Kan, a Korean unit of length

Other uses

Kan language (disambiguation) Kan may be : *Gan Chinese, a group of Chinese varieties spoken in Jiangxi Province *Kaansa language, a Gur language of Burkina Faso *Kaan language, an Adamawa language of Nigeria *Kan, a variety of the Mbay language, a Central Sudanic language of ...

, several languages *

Club of Committed Non-Party Members The Club of Committed Non-Party Members (in Czech ''Klub angažovaných nestraníků'', ''KAN'') is a small liberal party in the Czech Republic co-founded by Rudolf Battěk. It was founded during the Prague Spring in May 1968 by 144 leading Czech ...

(KAN), Czech Republic * Variation of the Sicilian Defence in chess * Kan ( he, כאן, lit=Here), the

Israeli Broadcasting Corporation The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC; he, תאגיד השידור הישראלי, translit=Ta'agid HaShidur HaYisra'eli, lit=Israeli Broadcasting Corporation; ar, هيئة البث الإسرائيلي, translit=Hayyat al-Bathi al- ...