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Tan Cheng Lock

Tan Cheng Lock (陈祯禄) was a Malacca-born Peranakan Chinese businessman and statesman who co-founded and led the Malayan Chinese Association from 1949 and helped negotiate Malaya's independence from Britain, achieved in 1957.

Tan Chong Motor

Tan Chong Motor Holdings Berhad is a Malaysian automotive conglomerate that began in 1957 as a Datsun distributor and remains the exclusive Nissan and Renault distributor in Malaysia.

Tan Choon Hong

Tan Choon Hong is a Singapore-based organic chemist and President's Chair Professor at Nanyang Technological University, known for chiral guanidine, pentanidium, and bisguanidinium organocatalysts and, since 2025, president of the Singapore National Academy of Science.

Tan Chuan-Jin

Tan Chuan-Jin (born 1969) is a former Speaker of Singapore's Parliament, MP for Marine Parade GRC, and ex-minister who resigned all posts and from the PAP on 17 July 2023 over an affair with MP Cheng Li Hui.

Tản Đà

Tản Đà was the pen name of Nguyễn Khắc Hiếu, a Vietnamese poet, novelist, and journalist who pioneered modern Vietnamese literature before his death in 1939.

Tan Daoji

Tan Daoji (檀道济) was a general of the Liu Song dynasty who rose to Minister of Works and was executed on suspicion of disloyalty in 436.

Tan France

Tan France (born Tanweer Safdar) is an English-American fashion designer, television personality, and author from Doncaster, England, known as the fashion expert on Netflix's Queer Eye reboot.

Tan Hong

Tan Hong (谭弘) was a Chinese military commander who served the Ming and then the Qing as regional commander of Sichuan, and rebelled twice against the Qing.

Tan Jiazhen

Tan Jiazhen (谈家桢), known internationally as C. C. Tan, was a Chinese geneticist and founding figure of modern genetics who trained under Thomas Hunt Morgan at Caltech and built China's first genetics programs at Fudan University.

Tan Kah Kee (陈嘉庚)

Tan Kah Kee, also known as Chen Jiageng, was a Singapore rubber magnate and philanthropist who founded Xiamen University and led wartime fundraising for China.

Tan Lun

Tan Lun (谭纶), courtesy name Zili, was a Ming dynasty official and field commander from Yihuang, Jiangxi, who served as Minister of War and shared fame with Qi Jiguang as "Tan, Qi."

Tan Malaka

Tan Malaka was an Indonesian revolutionary, communist leader, and political writer who chaired the PKI in 1921, wrote Naar de Republiek Indonesia, and was executed in 1949.

Tan Parker

Tan Parker is an American Republican politician and businessman who chairs the Senate Republican Caucus in the Texas Senate, after 16 years in the Texas House.

Tan Passakornnatee

Tan Passakornnatee is a Thai beverage executive who founded Oishi, sold it to ThaiBev in 2008, and built Ichitan Group, a ready-to-drink green tea company listed in Thailand.

Tan See Leng

Tan See Leng is a Singaporean politician of the People's Action Party who has served as Minister for Trade and Industry (Energy and Industry) since July 2026.

Tan Sitong

Tan Sitong (谭嗣同) was a Qing dynasty scholar-official and reformer from Liuyang, Hunan, who joined the 1898 reform and was executed as one of the Six Gentlemen.

Tan Son Nhat International Airport

Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Sân bay quốc tế Tân Sơn Nhất) is Vietnam's busiest airport, serving Ho Chi Minh City with about 41 million passengers in 2023.

Tan Songyun

Tan Songyun (谭松韵), also known as Seven, is a Chinese actress born in 1990 in Luzhou, Sichuan, and a Beijing Film Academy graduate, known for With You, Under the Power, Go Ahead, As Beautiful as You, and Huading Award-winning costume roles.

Tan Su Shan

Tan Su Shan is a Singaporean banker who became CEO of DBS Group in March 2025, the first woman and first internal appointee to lead Southeast Asia's largest bank.

Tan Yankai

Tan Yankai (谭延闿) was a Chinese statesman who served several times as governor of Hunan and was the first president of the Executive Yuan, from 1928 to 1930.

Tan Zhonglin

Tan Zhonglin (谭钟麟, 1822–1905) was a Qing dynasty official from Chaling, Hunan, who served as governor of Zhejiang and ended his career as governor-general of Liangguang.

Tan-Ruhurater

Tan-Ruhurater (Tan-Ruhuratir) was a ruler of the Shimashki dynasty of Elam, known from the Susa King List as the son of Idadu and father of Kindattu, who conquered Ur.

Tan-yondozo Vallis

Tan-yondozo Vallis (Tan yondozo Vallis) is an 800-km-diameter valley feature on Venus at 41.5S, 87E, named in 1997 from the Bashkir name for the planet Venus, IAU-approved, quad v46.

Tana French

Tana French, Irish-American crime novelist, author of the Dublin Murder Squad series (In the Woods, The Likeness) and the Cal Hooper trilogy (The Searcher, The Hunter, The Keeper); Edgar winner, over eight million copies sold.

Tana Lin

Tana Lin, born 1966 in Taipei, Taiwan, is an American federal judge on the US District Court for the Western District of Washington, appointed by President Biden in 2021.

Tana Mongeau

Tana Mongeau (born 1998) is an American YouTuber and podcaster from Las Vegas known for storytime videos, the TanaCon fiasco, the Cancelled podcast with Brooke Schofield, and her 2026 Brand Safe era; Forbes estimated $8 million 2026 earnings.

Tana River Delta Ramsar Site

Tana River Delta Ramsar Site (Ramsar Site no. 2082), Kenya's sixth Ramsar site, designated 7 September 2012; a 163,600 ha wetland of freshwater, floodplain, estuarine and coastal habitats at the Tana River mouth, an Important Bird Area facing land-use conflict.

Tana Toraja Regency

Tana Toraja Regency (Kabupaten Tana Toraja), a regency in highland South Sulawesi, Indonesia, seat Makale, area 2,054.3 km², 19 districts, 280,794 people (2020 census), split from North Toraja in 2008, famed for tongkonan houses and Rambu Solo' funerals.

Tana Umaga

Tana Umaga (Jonathan Falefasa Umaga, born 1973), New Zealand rugby union centre and wing, 74-Test All Black and first Pacific Island heritage captain; later coached Toulon, Blues, Moana Pasifika, and the All Blacks defence.

Tana, Athi & Coastal Drainages

Tana, Athi & Coastal Drainages (FEOW ecoregion 567) is a tropical coastal-river freshwater ecoregion in Kenya and northern Tanzania, covering the Tana and Athi/Galana-Sabaki basins plus smaller Indian Ocean coastal rivers, with a depauperate fish fauna, rich bird and reptile life, and the Tana Delta Ramsar site.