Given name •
Nan A. Talese (born 1933), American retired editor •
Nan Achnas (born 1963), Indonesian film director •
Nan Agle (1905–2006), American children's book writer •
Nan Allely, Irish former lawn- and indoor bowler •
Nan Aron (born 1948), American lawyer •
Nan Aspinwall (1880–1964), American oriental dancer, horsewoman, sharpshooter, and roper •
Nan Aye Khine (born 1976), Burmese weightlifter •
Nan B. Frank (1886–1980), American social worker and women's suffrage leader •
Nan Baird (1911–1993), Scottish amateur golfer •
Nan Baker (born 1954), American Republican politician •
Nan Bangs McKinnell (1913–2012), American ceramicist and educator •
Nan Bentzen Skille (born 1945), Norwegian biographer and columnist •
Nan Bernstein Ratner, American professor and board-recognized specialist in child language disorders •
Nan Blair (1891–1944), American screenwriter and literary agent •
Nan Bosler (born 1935), Australian community activist and advocate for young people, the elderly, and people with disabilities •
Nan Braunton (1895–1978), British actress •
Nan Brooks, American children's book illustrator •
Nan Campbell (1926−2013), American politician •
Nan Chauncy (1900–1970), British-born Australian children's writer •
Nan Cohen (born 1968), American poet and teacher •
Nan Cross (1928–2007), South African anti-apartheid and anti-conscription activist •
Nan Ogburn Cullman (1929–2015), American singer, explorer, and philanthropist •
Nan Cuz (1927–2019), German–Guatemalan painter •
Nan Dieter-Conklin (1926–2014), American radio astronomer •
Nan Dirk de Graaf (born 1958), Dutch sociologist •
Nan Doak-Davis (born 1962), American former long-distance runner •
Nan Dunbar (1928–2005), Scottish academic •
Nan Fairbrother (1913–1971), English writer and lecturer on landscape and land use •
Nan Fry (1945–2016), American poet •
Nan Giese (1922–2012), Australian leader in education and the visual and performing arts •
Nan Gindele (1910–1992), American athlete •
Nan Goldin (born 1953), American photographer and activist •
Nan Green (1904–1984), British communist •
Nan Grey (1918–1993), American film actress •
Nan Grogan Orrock (born 1943), American member of the Georgia House of Representatives and State Senator •
Nan Halperin (1898–1963), Russian-born American singing comedian •
Nan Hayworth (born 1959), American ophthalmologist and former U.S. Representative from New York's 19th Congressional District •
Nan Hoover (1931–2008), Dutch/American-expatriate artist •
Nan Hunt (1918–2015), Australian children's writer •
Nan Hutton (1917–1984), Australian journalist, columnist, and writer •
Nan Inger Östman (1923–2015), Swedish author of children's literature •
Nan Ino Cooper, 10th Baroness Lucas (1880–1958), British nurse and educator •
Nan Joyce (1940–2018), Irish Travellers' rights activist •
Nan Kelley (born c. 1965), American former Miss Mississippi (1985) •
Nan Kempner (1930–2005), American New York socialite •
Nan Kinross (1926–2021), New Zealand nurse and nursing academic •
Nan Knighton, American poet, playwright, and lyricist •
Nan Laird (born 1943), American professor of public health •
Nan Lawson Cheney (1897–1985), Canadian painter and medical artist •
Nan Leslie (1926–2000), American actress •
Nan Levinson (born 1949), American writer, journalist, and teacher •
Nan Lurie (1906–1985), American printmaker and engraver •
Nan Marie Jokerst, American professor of electrical- and computer engineering •
Nan Marriott-Watson (1899–1982), British character actress and Broadway theatre performer •
Nan Martin (1927–2010), American actress and comedian •
Nan Mason (1896–1982), American painter and photographer •
Nan McDonald (1921–1974), Australian poet and editor • Nan McDonald, Canadian candidate in the
Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 1984 Canadian federal election •
Nan McKay (1892–1986), Métis librarian •
Nan Melville (1949–2022), American photographer •
Nan Merriman (1920–2012), American operatic mezzo-soprano •
Nan Moe Moe Htwe (born 1983), Burmese politician • Nan Murphy, Canadian candidate in the
Liberal-Progressive Party candidates in the 1953 Manitoba provincial election •
Nan Ni Ni Aye (born 1969), Burmese politician •
Nan Nyunt Swe (1923–2010), Burmese writer •
Nan Peete (born 1938), American Episcopal priest •
Nan Phelps (1904–1990), American folk artist •
Nan Rae (born 1944), Scottish former competitive swimmer •
Nan Ribera (born 1975), Spanish retired footballer •
Nan Rich (born 1942), American member of the Florida Senate and former member of the House of Representatives •
Nan C. Robertson (1926–2009), American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and instructor in journalism •
Nan Ryan (1936–2017), American writer of romance novels •
Nan Sandar Hla Htun (born 1993), Burmese actress, model, and former beauty queen •
Nan Sheets (1885–1976), American painter, printmaker, and museum director •
Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), Scottish Modernist writer and poet •
Nan Su Yati Soe (born 1987), Burmese actress, model, singer, and TV host •
Nan Thuzar Win (born 1981), Burmese politician •
Nan Tom Teaimín de Búrca, Irish traditional
sean-nós singer •
Nan Wood Honeyman, (1881–1970), American first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Oregon •
Nan Youngman (1906–1995), English painter and educationalist
Chinese name •
Nan (diviner), a prominent diviner during the Shang dynasty. •
Nan Geng, a king of the Shang dynasty of ancient China •
Nan Hanchen (1895–1967), Chinese governor •
Nan Hu, Chinese physician-scientist, molecular geneticist, and cancer epidemiologist •
Nan Huai-Chin (1918–2012), Chinese Buddhist monk, religious scholar, teacher, and writer •
Nan Lin (born 1938), Chinese professor of sociology •
Nan Qi (artist) (born 1960), Chinese artist •
Nan Rendong (1945–2017), Chinese astronomer of Manchu descent •
Nan Song (disambiguation) •
Nan Xiaoheng (born 1995), Chinese footballer •
Nan Yunqi (born 1993), Chinese football player •
Nan Zhang (actress) (born 1986), Chinese-American actress •
King Nan of Zhou (r. 314–256 BC), last ruler of the Chinese Zhou dynasty •
Luo Nan (born 1986), Chinese swimmer •
Sima Nan (born 1956), Chinese television pundit and journalist •
Song Nan (born 1990), Chinese figure skater •
Wang Nan (disambiguation) •
Yu Nan (born 1978), Chinese actress •
Zhang Nan (disambiguation) •
Zhou Nan (born 1927), Chinese politician and diplomat
Family name •
Nan (surname) (南), Chinese surname •
Mohd Fauzi Nan (born 1980), Malaysian football player
Nickname •
Nan Britton (1896–1991), mistress of President Warren G. Harding •
Nannerl O. Keohane (born 1940), American political theorist and former president of Wellesley College and Duke University •
Nan Merriman (1920–2012), American operatic singer
Fictional people •
Nan (American Horror Story) Other • English familiar term for
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