Tai-Pan (disambiguation)
Tai-Pan is a Cantonese term for the leader of a Hong, a western trading company operating in China or Hong Kong in the 19th century.
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Tai-Pan or Taipan may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Tai-Pan (novel), a 1966 novel by James Clavell
- Tai-Pan (film), a 1986 film based on Clavell's novel
- "Taipan", a song from the album Circus Animals (1982) by the Australian band Cold Chisel
- Taipan, the new name for the Thrillseeker (roller coaster)
- Taipan!, a computer game for the Apple II and TRS-80
- "The Taipan", a 1922 short story by W. Somerset Maugham
Ships
- HMAS Taipan, a Second World War Royal Australian Navy auxiliary vessel
- MV Taipan, a container ship freed in the Action of 5 April 2010 from Somali pirates
- Taipan 28, a sailing yacht or sloop
- Taipan Catamarans, high performance sailing catamarans made in Australia
Other uses
- Tai-Pan or Albert Cheng, a radio commentator-turned-politician in Hong Kong
- Taipan, a large Australian snake
- Cairns Taipans, an Australasian National Basketball League team
- MRH-90 Taipan, Australian Defence Force name for the NH90 helicopter
- Taipan Business Centre, a commercial hub of UEP Subang Jaya, Malaysia
- TAIPAN galaxy survey (originally "Transforming Astronomical Imaging surveys through Polychromatic Analysis of Nebulae", the overly contrived retronym has been mostly abandoned), a large-scale spectroscopic survey underway at the UK Schmidt Telescope
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