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fan

person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or someone
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Summary

fan is an occupation[1]. fan draws 3,298 Wikipedia views per month (occupation category, ranking #92 of 676).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: group of humans[3], subculture[4]
  • Subclass of: person[5]
  • Commons category: Fans (person)[6]
  • Field of this occupation: fandom[7]
  • Said to be the same as: enthusiast[8]
  • Opposite of: anti-fan[9], Oshi[10]
  • Has part(s): stan[11], sasaeng fan[12], otaku[13]
  • Described by source: Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction[14]
  • Partially coincident with: partisan[15], follower[16], member[17], believer[18], disciple[19]
  • Different from: fanaticism[20], stan[21], ceiling fan[22]
  • Properties for this type: P13687[23]
  • Female form of label: معجبة[24], אוהדת[25], фанатка[26], Fan[27], oboževalka[28], заўзятарка[29], fanka[30], fană[31]
  • Hashtag: fan[32]
  • Studied by: fan studies[33]
  • Male form of label: معجب[34], заўзятар[35], fan[36]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for fan include fanzine[37], a magazine genre[38].

Why It Matters

fan has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] fan is known by 106 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

Entities named for fan include fanzine[37], a magazine genre[38].

Related Entities

The King of Comedy

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Trivialist · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bn', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'e
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||zh, vi, fi, zh-sg, tr, sl, mul */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia+self_stated_in refs; add external ID to reference; add mul alias ([[User:Difool/Wikidata"
  2. 11w ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-07-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Male form of label → {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'معجب'}, {'lang': 'be-tarask', 'text': 'заўзятар'}, {'lang': 'ro', 'text': 'fan'}
    Female form of label → {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'معجبة'}, {'lang': 'he', 'text': 'אוהדת'}, {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'фанатка'} +6
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Female form of label: fană"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0403159-fanousci
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0403159-fanousci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 21w ago · Stuartyeates · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has parts → —
    Instance of → —
    Said to be the same as → enthusiast
    Partially coincident with → partisan, follower, member +2
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Library of congress authority id: sh85047108"
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