Allan (name)
Allan is both a given name and a surname.People with the given name
A–F
- Allan, Brazilian footballer
- Allan, Brazilian footballer
- Allan Abbass, a professor, psychiatrist, and founding Director of the Centre for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada
- Allan Ackerman, an American magician who specializes in sleight of hand magic with playing cards
- Allan Adair, a senior officer of the British Army who served in both World Wars
- Allan Adler, an American silversmith
- Allan Agar, an English rugby league footballer and coach
- Allan Ahlberg, British children's book writer with his wife Janet Ahlberg as illustrator
- Allan Alaalatoa, an Australian rugby union player
- Allan Alaküla, an Estonian journalist
- Allan Albert, an American director, producer, and playwright
- Allan Alcorn, an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist
- Allan Alemán, a Costa Rican professional football player
- Allan Amato, an American portrait photographer and film director
- Allan Amin, an Indian action film director
- Allan Anderson
- Allan Andrews
- Allan Antliff, an anarchist activist, art critic and author
- Allan Arbus, an American actor and photographer
- Allan Arkush, an American film and television director
- Allan Armitage, a professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia, United States
- Allan Ashbolt, an Australian journalist and television broadcaster
- Allan Asher, an Australian lawyer, consumer advocate and campaigner
- Allan Ayala, a male track and field athlete from Guatemala
- Allan Aynesworth, the stage name of British actor Edward Abbot-Anderson
- Allan Baillie, an Australian writer
- Allan Baker, a notorious Australian rapist and murderer
- Allan Bakke, party in the landmark 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
- Allan Baldwin, an Australian rules footballer
- Allan Ball, an English former footballer
- Allan Boesak, a South African cleric, politician and anti-apartheid activist
- Allan B. Calhamer, an American mail carrier who invented the board game Diplomacy
- Allan Anthony Costly, a Honduran former footballer
- Allan A. Davidson, a lawyer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
- Allan de San Miguel, Australian professional baseball player
- Allan Donald, a former South African cricketer
- Allan Dwan, Canadian-American film director
- Allan Findlay, a Scottish trade unionist
G–Z
- Allan A. Goldstein, an American film director and screenwriter
- Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist and composer
- Allan Houston, American basketball player
- Allan B. Hubbard, American economic advisor to George W. Bush
- Allan Jay, British world champion épée & foil fencer
- Allan Jones , an English cricket umpire and a retired cricketer
- Allan Kimbaloula, a Congolese international footballer
- Allan Kozinn, American music critic
- Allan Kwartler, American sabre and foil fencer, Pan American Games and Maccabiah Games champion
- Allan A. Lamport,, mayor of Toronto, Canada
- Allan Lane, an American film star of cowboy B-movies in the 1940s and 1950s
- Allan B. Magruder, a United States Senator from Louisiana
- Allan McCollum, American artist
- Allan Morris, a former Australian politician
- Allan A. Moss, mayor of Newport News, Virginia, United States
- Allan Alfred Nunweiler, a Canadian former politician, also known as Alf Nunweiler
- Allan Nyom, a Cameroonian professional footballer
- Allan Arenfeldt Olesen, a Danish professional football player
- Allan Ray, American professional basketball player
- Allan A. Ryan Jr., an American financier and politician from New York
- Allan A. Schoenherr, a Californian author, ecologist, and naturalist
- Allan Sherman, an American comedy writer and singer
- Allan "Whitey" Snyder, an American Hollywood make-up artist
- Allan Sutter, American Marine Corps Navy Cross recipient
- Allan A. Swenson, an author, literary agent and master gardener
- Allan B. Swift, an Emmy award–winning broadcaster and American politician
- Allan B. Walsh, an American politician from New Jersey
- Allan Arthur Willman, an American classical pianist, composer, music pedagog
- Allan Zebie, Canadian soccer player
People with the surname
- Alexander Allan
- Anthony Allan
- Charlie Allan
- Deborah Allan, British judoka
- Denis Allan, Canadian chess master
- George Allan
- Griselda Allan, British artist
- Henry Allan
- Harry Howard Barton Allan, New Zealand botanist
- Ian Allan
- Jack Allan
- James Allan
- Jed Allan, American actor
- Jim Allan
- Jimmy Allan
- John Allan
- Joyce Allan, Australian conchologist
- Keith Allan
- Lewis Allan, pseudonym of American lyricist Abel Metropolitan
- Lucy Allan
- Marcus Allan, Australian rules footballer
- Mary Parsons Reid Allan, Scottish artist
- Mea Allan, Scottish journalist
- Patrick Allan, Scottish footballer
- Peter Allan
- Ray Allan, Scottish footballer
- Robert Allan
- Rosemary Allan, British artist
- Sandy Allan, Scottish footballer
- Thomas Allan
- William Allan
Fictional characters
- Allan, a former mascot of the Baltimore Ravens football team
- Allan Thompson, a fictional character from The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
- Allan-a-Dale, a variant spelling of Alan-a-Dale, a figure in the Robin Hood legend
- Zack Allan, a fictional character from the television series Babylon 5
