Pan or PAN may refer to:

Common meanings

Pan (cooking), a piece of cooking equipment

• Frying pan, a type of cooking pan

• Saucepan, a type of cooking pan

• Sauté pan, a type of cooking pan

• Pan (god), a Greek deity, often depicted with specific goat features

• Panning (camera), (short for panoramic), film and photography technique in which the camera is swivelled horizontally from a fixed spot

• Panning (criticism), severe negative film criticism

Arts, entertainment, and media

Card games

• Pan (game), a shedding card game of Polish origin

• Panguingue or Pan, a gambling card game

Fictional characters

• Pan (Dragon Ball), in Dragon Ball media

• Peter Pan, created by James Barrie

• Pan Yinhu, a character in the video game Zenless Zone Zero

Films

• Pan (1922 film), a Norwegian film

• Pan (1995 film), a Danish/Norwegian/German film

• Pan (2015 film)

Literature and publishing

• Pan (Hamsun novel), by Knut Hamsun. 1894.

• Pan (Clune novel), by Michael Clune. 2025.

• Pan (magazine) an arts and literary review

• Pan Books, a publisher

Music

Musical instruments

• Pan, short for steelpan, an acoustic instrument

• Pan flute or pan pipes, a musical instrument

Groups and labels

• Pan (band), a Filipino folk/punk rock band

• PAN (record label), a record label and art platform

• Pan, a Turkish band which performed "Bana Bana" at the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest

Works

• Pan (The Blue Hearts), an album by the Japanese band

• Pan, an opera by Carl Venth

Sculpture

• Pan (Riccio), a 1510s bronze sculpture by Andrea Riccio

• Pan (White), a public artwork by Roger White, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.

Food

• Harina P.A.N., a pre-cooked corn meal

• Pan or Paan, a North Indian term for betel

Languages

• Proto-Austronesian language, a proto-language commonly abbreviated PAN or PAn

• Punjabi language, ISO 639-3 code "pan"

Organizations

• Banco Pan, a Brazilian midsize commercial bank

• Pan Club Copenhagen, a gay club

• Palo Alto Networks, an American cybersecurity company

• Pesticide Action Network, an international NGO network

• Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk)

• Protect Arizona Now, sponsor of 2004 Arizona Proposition 200

People

• Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)

• Pen Ran (), Cambodian singer and songwriter whose name is sometimes Romanized as Pan Ron

Political parties

• National Action Party (El Salvador) (Partido Acción Nacional) of El Salvador

• National Action Party (Mexico) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Mexico

• National Action Party (Nicaragua) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Nicaragua

• National Advancement Party (Partido de Avanzada Nacional) of Guatemala

• National Autonomist Party (Partido Autonomista Nacional), historical Argentine party

• National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional) of Indonesia

• Party of the Nation's Retirees (Partido dos Aposentados da Nação) of Brazil

• People-Animals-Nature (Pessoas-Animais-Natureza) of Portugal

Science and technology

Astronomy

• Pan (crater), on Jupiter's moon Amalthea

• Pan, a former name for Jupiter XI, now Carme (moon), 1955–1975

• Pan (moon), of Saturn

• 4450 Pan, an asteroid

Biology

• Pan (genus), a genus that includes bonobos and chimpanzees

Chemistry

• Peroxyacyl nitrates

• Phthalic anhydride

• Polyacrylonitrile, a polymer of acrylonitrile

• Protactinium nitride, chemical formula PaN

Computing

• Pan (newsreader), for Usenet

• Pan (programming language)

• Personal area network

Medicine

• Pan, abbreviation for panoramic X-ray

• Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS)

• Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition

• Positional alcohol nystagmus, eye jerkiness

Multimedia technologies

• Panning (audio), of a signal into a new sound field

Other uses

• pan, a term for a dry lake bed

• Gold panning, a mining technique

• Pan (horse), an early 19th century British thoroughbred racehorse and sire

• Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program

• Flash pan, a small receptacle for priming powder on muzzle-loading firearms

• Pan, Slavic honorifics in Poland and Ukraine

• Pansexuality, a sexual orientation (often known as "pan")

• PAN, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for Panama

• PAN, the National Rail code for Pangbourne railway station in the county of Berkshire, UK

• Pancoran LRT station, a light rail station in Jakarta, Indonesia

• USA-207, an American satellite also known as PAN ("Palladium At Night")

• Bedpan

• Permanent account number, for taxpayers in India and Nepal

• Primary account number, another term for the payment card number of a payment card

• Pan (chimpanzee), a chimp known for his appearance on Japanese variety shows

See also

• Pan Pan (disambiguation)

• Pan-pan, a radio state of urgency call