Taipan (disambiguation)

A taipan is an Australian venomous snake.

Taipan or Tai-Pan may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• 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

• Taipan (corporate title), referring to a foreign-born senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in China or Hong Kong
• Albert Cheng (politician), a radio commentator-turned-politician in Hong Kong also known as Tai-pan
• Cairns Taipans, an Australasian National Basketball League team
• MRH-90 Taipan, Australian Defence Force name for the NH90 helicopter
• Taipan, alternative name for the mythical Australian Aboriginal creator-being, the Rainbow Serpent
• Taipan Business Centre, a commercial hub of UEP Subang Jaya, Malaysia
• TAIPAN galaxy survey (originally "Transforming Astronomical Imaging surveys through Polychromatic Analysis of Nebulae"), a large-scale spectroscopic survey underway at the UK Schmidt Telescope

See also

• Steel Taipan, a steel roller coaster at Dreamworld