Tappan may refer to: People Tappan (Native Americans) Arthur Tappan (1786–1865), abolitionist Benjamin Tappan (1773–1857), Ohio senator Clair S. Tappaan (1878–1932), California judge and Sierra Club president Eli Todd Tappan (1824–1888), president of Kenyon College, 1868–1875 Henry Philip Tappan (1805–1881), president, University of Michigan, 1852–1863 James Camp Tappan (1825–1906), Confederate Army Brigadier General Lewis Tappan (1788–1873), abolitionist, developer of credit reporting service Lewis Northey Tappan (1831–1880), abolitionist, Western pioneer and a founder of Colorado City Mary Tappan Wright (née Tappan; 1851–1916), writer Mel Tappan (1933–1980), survivalist writer Samuel F. Tappan (1831–1913), US Army officer, journalist, Native American advocate Stacey Tappan (born 1973), American lyric soprano Tappan Wright King (born 1950), editor W. J. Tappan (fl. 1881), founder of the Ohio Valley Foundry Company, later renamed Tappan Stove Company Places United States Tappan, Ohio, an unincorporated community Tappan, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Lake Tappan, a reservoir on the Hackensack River Old Tappan, New Jersey, a town in Bergen County Tappan Lake, a reservoir in Harrison County, Ohio Tappan, New York, a hamlet in Rockland County Tappan Zee, widening of the Hudson River Tappan Zee Bridge (1955–2017), a former bridge at the Tappan Zee Tappan Zee Bridge (2017–present) (Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge), the replacement for the 1955 bridge Other Tappan (brand), a brand of stoves owned by Electrolux, founded by W.J. Tappan See also