Sloan

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Sloan may refer to many things.

Sloan may refer to the following places:

• Sloan, Indiana, United States (extinct)
• Sloan, Iowa, United States
• Sloan, New York, United States

Sloan may also refer to:

• Sloan (band), a Canadian rock band
• Sloan (porn star), a.k.a. Lilly Ann
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a major astronomical survey
• Sloan Valve Company, a manufacturer of plumbing systems
• Urania sloanus, or "Sloan's Urania", a species of moth

Sloan is the surname of:

• Alfred P. Sloan, the long-time president and chairman of General Motors
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the world
  • MIT Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, named after Alfred P. Sloan
• Ed Sloan, member of American music band Crossfade
• Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., treasurer of Richard M. Nixon's 1972 campaign committee
• Ian Sloan, Australian mathematician
• Jerry Sloan (born 1942), basketball coach for the Utah Jazz
• John French Sloan (1871–1951), American painter
• Norm Sloan (1926–2003), basketball coach
• Paddy Sloan (1921–1993), Northern Irish footballer/coach
• Richard E. Sloan (1857 - 1933), Arizona Territorial Governor (1909 - 1912)
• Tommy Sloan, Scottish footballer
• Victor Sloan, Irish visual artist
• William Gibson Sloan (1838–1914) Scottish evangelist to the Faroe Islands

Sloan is the name of some fictional characters:

• Luther Sloan, a fictional character in Star Trek
• Inspector C.D "Seedy" Sloan , a fictional detective in the Sloan and Crosby novels created by Catherine Aird
• Sloan (Inheritance), a fictional character in the Inheritance book trilogy
• Sloan McQuewick, one of Eric's girlfriends in the TV series Entourage

[edit] See also

• Sloane (disambiguation)