Stan Smith (American Dad!)

Stan Smith
American Dad! character
First appearance	"Pilot" (2005)
Created by	Seth MacFarlane Mike Barker Matt Weitzman
Designed by	Seth MacFarlane
Voiced by	Seth MacFarlane
In-universe information
Full name	Stanford Leonard Smith
Aliases	Stanford, Staniel (by Roger and Francine Smith), Dad (by Steve and Hayley Smith), Top Dog (by the Smith family), Bro (by Klaus), Pappa Wheelie
Nickname	Stan
Title	Agent
Affiliation	Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Family	Jack Smith (father) Betty Smith (mother)
Spouse	Francine Smith (wife)
Children	Hayley Smith (daughter) Steve Smith (son)
Relatives	Rusty Smith (half-brother) Glen Smith (nephew)
Religion	Episcopalian
Home	Langley Falls, Virginia
Nationality	American
Age	42

Stanford Leonard "Stan" Smith is a fictional character and the title character protagonist of the animated television series American Dad!. He is voiced by the series' co-creator and executive producer, Seth MacFarlane.

Stan is the patriarch of the Smith family. As the family's breadwinner, he works for the Central Intelligence Agency. Although he once held the position of a case officer at the CIA, he is also a weapons expert for this agency.^[1] Stan often makes the mistake of applying the same extreme measures suited and used for his job in his personal life and with his family.

Stan is portrayed as drastic, endangering, rash, insensitive, inconsiderate, dog-eat-dog, racist, and very masculine. In the series he is emphasized as a conservative Republican. Stan has an exaggeratedly large chin, which has been described satirically as a "Jay Leno jaw".^[2] He usually wears a blue suit with a lapel pin that is a simplified version of the U.S. flag, consisting of three red and white stripes and a blue square.^[3] Although he has all of these traits, he is shown to deeply care for his family (despite the different traits between them). He is shown to say that "you're right" to family members to show that he cares and listens to them. In the episode "I'm Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas" he doesn't like his alternate universe family.

Stan's age is in the vicinity of around 42 years old. In "Bullocks to Stan", he is revealed to be ten months older than Francine, whose birthday is September 26, which implies that his birthday is around late November/early December. Stan is married to Francine Smith. Like all characters, Stan doesn't have a set height but he is described as 6 feet tall as the most consistent answer like his license and in "The Shrink" when he warns Francine that if she makes him a little too big "I'll end up 6'2", and I'll have to go into modeling". However, he is depicted as a fair bit shorter than Shannon Sharpe and Barack Obama who are both around 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m). He is the father of Hayley and Steve Smith. In “The Kidney Stays In The Picture,” it is revealed that he may not be the biological father of Hayley, and it is not confirmed at the end of the episode. In "Cock of the Sleepwalk", Stan adopted an unnamed little girl. Also living under Stan's roof are three housemates: Roger, an alien; Klaus, the family's man-in-a-fish-body pet;^[4] and Jeff Fischer, who is Hayley's boyfriend turned husband. Stan's mother is named Betty, and his father is a jewel thief (as revealed in the episode "Con Heir") named Jack Smith. He grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.