Kanan may refer to:

People

Surname

Sean Kanan Sean Kanan (; Perelman; born November 2, 1966) is an American actor, producer, and author, best known for his portrayals of Mike Barnes (in '' The Karate Kid Part III'' and ''Cobra Kai''), A. J. Quartermaine (on ''General Hospital''), and De ...

, American actor and TV host

Given name

Male

Kanan Gill Kanan Singh Gill is an Indian stand-up comedian, actor, author and YouTuber. He won the Punch Line Bangalore Competition. He is known for the YouTube series ''Pretentious Movie Reviews'' where he reviews campy Bollywood films along with fellow s ...

(born 1989), Indian stand-up comedian, actor, and internet personality *

Kanan Karimov Kanan Karimov (; born 5 August 1976) is an Azerbaijani football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football ...

(born 1976), an Azerbaijani Association football manager and former player *

Kanan Makiya Kanan Makiya (born 1949) is an Iraqi-American academic and professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. He gained international attention with ''Republic of Fear'' (1989), which became a best-selling book after Saddam ...

(born 1949), Iraqi American professor and former dissident *

Kanan Malhotra Kanan Malhotra (born 8 January 1987) is an Indian Model (person), model and television actor. Television career In 2010, he made his television debut in the show ''Chand Chupa Badal Mein'' on Star Plus where he played the cameo role of Aditya S ...

, Indian model and television actor * Kanan Seyidov, an Azerbaijani military officer * Kanan Yusif-zada (born 1973), an Azerbaijani surgeon, professor, and military administrator

Female

Kanan Devi Kanan Devi (22 April 1916 – 17 July 1992) was an Indian actress and singer. She was among the early singing stars of Indian cinema, and is credited popularly as the first star of Bengali cinema. Her singing style, usually in rapid tempo, was ...

(1916-1992), Indian actress and singer *

Kanan Kaushal Indumati Paigankar ( Sheth), better known as Kanan Kaushal, is an Indian actress, most famous for starring in ''Jai Santoshi Maa'' (1975) and Pardesi. The low-budget film became a huge box office hit and a cultural phenomenon. She has acted in ...

(born 1939), Indian actress *

Kanan Minami is a ''shōjo manga, shōjo'' mangaka, manga artist. She is best known for ''Honey x Honey Drops'', which has been licensed in multiple languages and adapted as an original video animation (OVA). Her current series, ''Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu'', ...

(born 1979), a manga artist * Kanan Mishra (1944–2015), an Oriya writer

Pseudonym

*Pen name of Yūko Ōtsuki, illustrator of ''

Galaxy Angel is a ''bishōjo'' sci-fi metaseries composed of anime, manga and dating sim video games. It was created by Broccoli in July 2000, when it launched a multi-platformed project called ''Project G.A.'' The anime and ''Galaxy Angel Party'' ...

'' manga

Fictional characters

* Kanan, a character in the manga series, ''Saiyuki'' *

Kanan Jarrus Kanan Jarrus (born Caleb Dume) is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr. He is featured as one of the main characters of the animated series ''Star Wars Rebels'' (2014–2018) and related works. His ...

, a character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise *

Kanan Matsuura is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works' ''Dengeki G's Magazine'', music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. The project is the second series of the ''Love Live!'' franchise and is a spin-off sequel of '' ...

, a character from the media-mix project, ''Love Live! Sunshine!!'' *

Kanan Stark ''Power'' is an American crime drama-thriller television series created and produced by Courtney A. Kemp in collaboration with Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. It aired on the Starz network from June 7, 2014 to February 9, 2020. Upon release, ''Po ...

, a character in the television series ''Power''

Places

Kanan, Osaka is a town located in Minamikawachi District, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 15,429 and a population density of 610 persons per km2. The total area of the town is . Geography Kanan is located in the south ...

, a town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan * Kanan, Pori, a district in Pori, Finland *

Kanan, Khuzestan Kanan () is a city in the Central District of Karun County, Khuzestan province, Iran. Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the population was 10,363 in 1,795 households, when it was the village of Qaleh Chanan i ...

, a city in Karun County, Khuzestan province, Iran *

Kanan-e Olya Kanan-e Olya (, also Romanized as Kan‘ān-e ‘Olyā; also known as Kan‘ān-e Īl) is a village in Dul Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of ...

, a village in West Azerbaijan province, Iran *

Kanan-e Sofla Kanan-e Sofla (, also Romanized as Kan‘ān-e Soflá; also known as Kan‘ān-e Ra‘īyat) is a village in Dul Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republ ...

, a village in West Azerbaijan province, Iran *

Kanan-Bakache Kanan-Bakache is a village and rural commune in Niger Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state Geography of Niger#Political geography, bordered by Libya to the Libya–Niger b ...

, a village and commune in Niger, West Africa *

Kanan, Myanmar Kanan () is a village in the Kanan village tract, Tamu Township, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. The village is located north of the town of Khampat in Tamu Township. On 7 January 2024, Myanmar Air Force launched an air strike to the village killing lea ...

, a village in Khampat, Sagaing Region, Myanmar

Others

Kanan (tigress) Kanan was a wild tigress who jumped into a zoo enclosure in 1967, lured by a male tiger. Kanan sacrificed her freedom for captive tiger Pradeep and entered his open-air enclosure at the Nandankanan Zoo in Bhubaneswar, Odisha Odisha (), ...

Kanan Road/Kanan Dume Road Kanan Road / Kanan Dume Road is a major mostly north–south road that runs for , connecting the Conejo Valley and U.S. Route 101 with California State Route 1 and Malibu in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. It is used by 40,000 commuters per ...