Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to:

Acronyms

Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station) Union Station is an intermodal transit station in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It is operated by the Jackson Transit System and serves Amtrak's ''City of New Orleans (train), City of New Orleans'' and later proposed Crescent (train), Cre ...

, US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN *

Japanese Accepted Name A (JAN) is the official non-proprietary or generic name given to a pharmaceutical substance by the Government of Japan. See also * International Nonproprietary Name (INN) * United States Adopted Name (USAN) * British Approved Name (BAN) * ...

, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * '' Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * ''

Journal of Advanced Nursing The ''Journal of Advanced Nursing'' (also known as ''JAN'') is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of nursing. It is published by John Wiley & Sons. JAN is a world-leading international peer-reviewed journal. JAN targets ...

Personal name

Jan (name) Jan is a form of John that is used in various languages. (See the “Other names” section in this page's infobox for more variants.) The name is used in Afrikaans, Belarusian, Circassian, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, English (especially ...

, male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' *

Jan (Persian name) Jan or Jaan (, ) or jaan is name of Persian and pashto origin meaning for ' soul' or 'life Life, also known as biota, refers to matter that has biological processes, such as Cell signaling, signaling and self-sustaining processes. It is ...

, Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name *

Ran (surname) Rǎn is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Jan in Wade–Giles. Ran is listed 301st in the Song dynasty classic text '' Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 178th mo ...

, romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles *

Ján Ján is a Slovak form of the name John. Notable people named Ján * Ján Bahýľ (1856–1916), inventor * Ján Cuper (1946–2025), Slovak politician * Ján Čapkovič (born 1948), football player * Ján Čarnogurský (born 1944), Slovak p ...

, Slovak name

Other uses

January January is the first month of the year in the Julian calendar, Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the No ...

, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar *

Jan (cards) The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to Bridge (card game), bridge, Hearts ...

, a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring a minimum number of points *

Jan (comic book writer) Juan López Fernández (born 13 March 1939), better known by his pen name Jan, is a Spanish comic book writer and artist, most famous for his creation Superlópez. Biography He was born in the town of Toral de los Vados in the province of ...

, pseudonym of Spanish comic book artist Juan López Fernández *

Jan Mayen Jan Mayen () is a Norway, Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. It is long (southwest-northeast) and in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of around the Beerenberg volcano). It has two parts: la ...

, Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean * "Jan", a WIGS-produced YouTube drama *"Jan", a short film produced by Amos Yee