Dayan

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
 * 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