Man (disambiguation)
Appearance
A man is an adult male of the modern human species, its individuals, and nearest extinct relatives. See also man (word) for the etymology.
Man or MAN may also refer to:
Places
[edit]- Isle of Man, located in the Irish Sea, part of the British Isles
- Man Island (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), a small uninhabited island in the Bay of Bengal
- Man (Vidhan Sabha constituency), political district in India
- Man Department, Ivory Coast
- Man, Ivory Coast, a town and capital of the department
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Man, Ivory Coast
- Man, West Virginia, a town in the United States
- Man., abbreviation for Manitoba, a Canadian province
- Man, Vikramgad, a village in Maharashtra, India
- Manchester Airport's IATA airport code
- Manchester Piccadilly station's National Rail station code MAN
Music
[edit]- Man (band), a Welsh progressive rock group
- Man (Man album), 1971
- Man (Neneh Cherry album), the third solo album by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry, released in 1996
- "Man" (Skepta song), 2016
- "Man" (JoJo song), 2020
- "Man", a 1989 song on the album Staring at the Sun by Level 42
- "Man", a 2003 song on the album Fever to Tell by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- "Man", a 2016 song on the album Air for Free by Relient K
- "Man", a 2018 song on the album Blue Madonna by Børns
- "Man", a song by the band The Worst featured in the 2020 Netflix crime documentary series, Unabomber: In His Own Words.
Businesses
[edit]- MAN Truck & Bus, a German engineering company that manufactures (amongst other things) buses and trucks
- Man Group plc, a British financial services company
- The stock symbol of Manpower, Inc., an American employment agency
Political organizations
[edit]- Marea Adunare Naţională, the Great National Assembly in Communist Romania
- Mongolian People's Party, a political party in Mongolia (Mongolian: Монгол Ардын Нам)
- Movement of Arab Nationalists
- Movimento de Acção Nacional or the National Action Movement (Portugal)
- Movimiento de Acción Nacional or the National Action Movement (Venezuela)
- National Alternative Movement, a political party in Moldova (Mișcarea Alternativa Națională)
- Partido MAN (Movementu Antia Nobo or New Antilles Movement), a political party in Curaçao
Computing
[edit]- Metropolitan area network, large computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city
- The "man" command, used to retrieve a man page, a software documentation page on Unix and Unix-like operating systems
Menschen
[edit]- Edward Man (1549–1622), English politician
Other uses
[edit]- A chess piece or pawn; sometimes the word "piece" is defined to exclude pawns.
- Man!, American anarchist periodical, 1933–1940
- Man (name) (includes a list of people with the name)
- The Man, derisive slang phrase for higher authority
- Man or Nanman, ancient Chinese ethnic group
- Standard romanization of the Manchu people
- Man (Middle-earth), people in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Man (journal) (1901–1994), continued by The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Man (unit), an ancient Arabic and Persian unit of mass
- "Man", a statue by Virgil Cantini
- Ultraman, a Japanese television series often referred to as "Man"
- In neo-pagan Germanic mysticism, the alternative name of the Norse Algiz rune, where it is used as a purported life rune
See also
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