People
- The Shan people, Southeast Asian ethnic group inhabiting Myanmar
- The Shan language
- Dai people, also known as Shan, ethnic group in China
- Shanrong (山戎), term for "mountain barbarian" in Shanxi, Hubei in northern China
- Shan (surname), or 单 in Chinese, a Chinese surname
- Shan, a variant of the Welsh given name usually spelt Siân
- Darren Shan, children's author
- MC Shan, rapper
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