What is "stan"

n. (label en slang sometimes pejorative) An extremely loyal and obsessed fan, particularly one whose fixation with a celebrity is unhealthy or intrusive.

"Stan" is a song by American rapper Eminem featuring British singer Dido. It was released on December 9, 2000 as the third single from Eminem's third studio album The Marshall Mathers LP (2000). It peaked at number one in eleven countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland and Australia.

The song was produced by The 45 King, and uses a slightly modified break from Dido's " Thank You" as its base sample. The track also samples the opening lines of "Thank You" as its chorus. Coincidentally, both songs were released as singles in late 2000. "Stan" has been called one of Eminem's best songs and is considered one of his signature songs. Rolling Stone magazine ranked "Stan" at #296 in their list in The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song was also listed at #15 on VH1's list of the greatest hip hop songs of all-time. It has sold over 880,000 copies in the United Kingdom. "Stan" was also named by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

The song was nominated for multiple awards, including Best Song at the MTV Europe Music Awards, Video of the Year, Best Rap Video, Best Direction, Best Cinematography at the MTV Video Music Awards, but only won Best International Artist Video at the MuchMusic Video Awards. In April 2011, Complex magazine put together a list of the 100 greatest Eminem songs, ranking "Stan" at #2. The name of the eponymous character has given rise to a slang term online which refers to overzealous maniacal obsessed fans of a celebrity or personality.

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STAN (art-group) is the modern art community acting in Ukraine since 1999. Art-group «STAN» contributes the accumulation of creative forces of the region to overcome the cultural crisis and realization the creative projects. Location of group – Luhansk. Art-group «STAN» unites writers, philosophers, artists, journalists, educators and students. Founder of group - poet Alexander Sygida. Chairman of art-group «STAN» is Yaroslav Minkin. The structure of group also includes writer Konstantin Skorkin and poets – Elena Zaslavsky, Konstantin Reutskyy, Liubov Iakymchuck and Alexander Hubyetov.

Among the allies of the art-group - famous female skydiver Valentina Zakoretska, writers Yuri Pokalchuk, Sergei Zhadan and Andrei Hadanovych.

Stan (foaled in 1950 in England) was an Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in England and in the United States where he was the 1954 American Champion Male Turf Horse. Racing at age two in 1952, he won six of his eight starts in England before being sold to an American buyer who in turn subsequently sold him to for US$29,050 Allie Reuben, owner of Hasty House Farm.

A stan is an avid fan and supporter of a celebrity, franchise, film, or group, often a rock/pop musician. The object of the stan's affection is often called their fave. Based on the song " Stan" by American rapper Eminem, the term has frequently been used to describe artist devotees whose fanaticism matches the severity of the obsessive character named Stan in the 2000 Eminem song. The word has been described as a portmanteau of "stalker" and "fan".

Stan (, born Stratos Antipariotis on August 1, 1987 in Athens, Greece), is a Greek singer,songwriter and fashion model.

Stan is a Romanian surname. Notable persons with that name include:

• Alexandra Stan (born 1989), Romanian model
• Alexandru Stan (born 1989), Romanian footballer
• Daniel Stan (born 1978), Romanian footballer
• Gabriel Stan (born 1952), Romanian football manager
• Ilie Stan (born 1967), Romanian footballer and football manager
• Lavinia Stan (born 1966), Romanian political scientist
• Marius Stan (actor) (born 1961), Romanian actor
• Marius Stan (footballer) (born 1957), Romanian footballer and football official
• Mircea Stan (born 1977), Romanian footballer
• Sebastian Stan (born 1982), Romanian-American actor
• Ștefan Stan (born 1977), Romanian singer
• Valerian Stan (born 1955), Romanian military officer, human rights activist and civil servant

Stan is a probabilistic programming language for statistical inference written in C++. The Stan language is used to specify a (Bayesian) statistical model with an imperative program calculating the log probability density function.

Stan is licensed under the New BSD License. Stan is named in honour of Stanislaw Ulam, pioneer of the Monte Carlo method.

Stan is a Romanian given name. Notable persons with that name include:

• Stan Ioan Pătraş, Romanian wood sculptor, the creator of the tombstones in the Merry Cemetery in Săpânța, Maramureş County
• Stan Ghițescu, Romanian politician, deputy, minister, and victim of the Communist regime

Stan is an Australian streaming company which offers subscription to unlimited viewing of selected movies and TV shows. Originally due to launch in February 2015, it instead launched on Australia Day (26 January) 2015.

Stan is owned by StreamCo, which is a joint venture of Nine Entertainment Co. and Fairfax Media. Both these companies injected AU$50 million each into StreamCo in August 2014. The service could be bundled with subscriptions to Fairfax Media's newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

It competes against Australian streaming companies Quickflix, the Foxtel/ Seven West Media joint venture Presto, and the American-based Netflix.

Stan's original comedy No Activity became the first SVOD program ever nominated for a Logie Award at the 2016 ceremony.