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San or SAN can refer to any of the following:
- San or santo is the Spanish word for saint, as used in San Francisco (honouring Saint Francis) and San Diego (honouring Saint Didacus). San is used as a title only, whereas santo is used as a noun (e.g. «él es un santo», meaning "he is a saint") or a title (as in Santo Domingo).
- San is the Nama name, meaning "outsider," given to the Bushmen living in Southern Africa. It is generally considered offensive.
- San was a letter of the Greek alphabet.
- In computing, SAN is an initialism for storage area network.
- San is the fictional girl raised by a wolf goddess in Miyazaki Hayao's animated movie Princess Mononoke - the movie's title is a name by which she is also known.
- San is also a river in Southern Poland.
- San (さん) in Japanese is
- San is a town in Mali.
- San is one of the Fat Slags in the comic Viz.
- In some Slavic languages such as Serbian, san means dream.