Tartan is a pattern of textile also known as plaid (especially in North American English), often associated with Scotland.

Tartan may also refer to:

• Tartan, a metonym standing in for 'Scottish' (as in "tartan politics", "tartan television", "tartan humour", etc.)
• Tartan (Assyrian), the Assyrian term for a military commander-in-chief
• Tartan, tartane, or tartana, a type of ship
• Tartans, students and sports teams of Carnegie Mellon University
• The Tartan (Carnegie Mellon University), a student newspaper
• The Tartan (Radford University), a student newspaper
• The Tartans, a Jamaican reggae band
• FBgn0010452 also known as tartan, trn, or CG11280, a gene partly responsible for eye development in Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies; capitalized Tartan or Trn refers to a protein controlled by this gene.
• Sillitoe tartan, the chequered pattern (dicing, not actually a tartan) used often on police vehicles and headgear
• Tartan Army, fans of Scotland's national football team
• Tartan Films, a US and UK film-distribution company
• Tartan Laboratories, an American software company later known as Tartan, Inc.
• Tartan Marine, a boat building company
• Tartan Noir, a form of crime fiction particular to Scotland and Scottish writers
• Tartan Senior High School, in Oakdale, Minnesota
• Tartan Track, a synthetic track surface for athletics, manufactured by 3M
• Tartan Turf, an artificial grass for sports, manufactured by 3M

See also

• Tiretaine or tiretane, old terms for linsey-woolsey, a type of cloth made from linen and wool
• Tartarin or tartaryn (rarely tartyn), old terms for tartarium or Tartar cloth, elaborate textiles imported to Europe from Central and East Asia in the medieval period
• Tarlatan, a very open-weave muslin cloth similar to cheesecloth
• Plaid (disambiguation)