Gan

Gan may refer to:

Contents 1 Computing and telecommunications 2 Chemistry 3 Mythology 4 Fiction 5 Organization 6 Geography 6.1 China 6.2 Maldives 6.3 Elsewhere 7 Linguistics 8 People 9 Others

Computing and telecommunications

• .gan, the file extension for documents created by GanttProject
• Generic Access Network formerly known as Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)
• Global Area Network

Chemistry

• Gallium Nitride a popular III-V semiconductor

Mythology

• Gan Ceann, a headless unseelie fairie of Irish mythology.

Fiction

• gan, an Elvish board game played in The Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
• Gan Isurugi, a fictional character from the Rival Schools video game series
• Gan (Stephen King), a deity and the creative overforce in The Dark Tower series and numerous other works of fiction by Stephen King
• Olag Gan, a fictional character in the British television series Blake's 7

Organization

• Global Arab Network, a London-based news service about the Arab world

Geography

China

• Gan River (Jiangxi)
• Gan River (Inner Mongolia)
• Gan County, in Jiangxi province
• Gan (state), a former independent state
• A nickname for Jiangxi

Maldives

• Gan (Huvadhu Atoll)
• Gan (Laamu Atoll)
• Gan (Seenu Atoll)
• Gan International Airport

Elsewhere

• A local nickname for Gananoque, Ontario, Canada
• Gan, a village in Fet municipality, Norway
• Gan, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, France
• Gáň, a village and municipality in Galanta District, Trnava Region, south-west Slovakia

Linguistics

• Gan Chinese, a language concentrated in Jiangxi province
  • gan, the ISO 639-3 language code for Gan Chinese

People

• Alexei Mikhailovich Gan (1889-1942), Soviet architect, designer, and theoretician of Constructivism
• Brendan Gan, football player for Sydney FC, Australia
• Pinchas Cohen Gan, an Israeli artist
• Gan Ning, a warrior of the Three Kingdoms period in China
• Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (1884-1965), Swedish painter known under the signature "GAN"

Others

• GaN, an abbreviation for Gallium nitride
• Gan, a common family name in South East Asia of typically Chinese descent from Fujian who speak the Min Nan or Hokkien dialect. 顏 (Traditional Chinese), 颜 (Simplified)
• GAN, the former name of the Crédit Agricole cycling team
• Giant axonal neuropathy and is also the name of the gene that when mutated causes the disorder
• Grant Anticipation Note, a type of highway financing

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