Dayan may refer to:
People
- Dayan (surname), Hebrew surname
- Moshe Dayan (1915–1981), Israeli military leader and politician
Given name
- Dayan Deerh
- Dayán Díaz (born 1989), Colombian professional baseball pitcher
- Dayan Jayatilleka, (born 1956), leftist Sri Lankan academic, diplomat, writer and politician
- Dayan Khan, Mongol ruler of Dayan
- Dayan Khan (Khoshut), ruler of the Khoshut Khanate
- Dayan Rajapakse (born 1972), Sri Lankan physician, educator and businessman
- Dayan Téllez (born 2002), Mexican football goalkeeper
- Dayán Viciedo (born 1989), Cuban professional baseball infielder
- Dayan van der Westhuizen (born 1994), South African rugby union player
Places
- Dayan, or Old Town of Lijiang, World Heritage Site in Yunnan, China
- Dayan, in Evenk Autonomous Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
- Dayan, Fenghua District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
- Dayan Township, in Jiangyou, Sichuan, China
- Dayan, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Dayan Lake, in Bayan-Ölgii, Mongolia
- Dayan Town (disambiguation)
Others
- Dayan (rabbinic judge), Jewish religious judge in a Beth din
- Dayan (witch), a witch or vengeful female spirit in Indian culture
- Northern Yuan dynasty, also Dayan in Mongolian
- Yuan dynasty, Dayan in Mongolian
- Dayan, a Rubik's Cube Company
- Dayan, the smaller drum of the tabla set
- Daayan, a 1996 Hindi short story collection by Indian writer Bhisham Sahni
- Dayan (TV series), an Indian supernatural television series involving witches (dayans)
- Diana "Dayan", a fictional witch (dayan) in the 2013 Indian film Ek Thi Dayan, portrayed by Konkona Sen Sharma
See also
- Dayana, name
- Dayyan (disambiguation)
- Dakin (disambiguation)
- Dakini, a female spirit in Hinduism and Buddhism, basis of the dayan witch in Indian folklore
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