Daya may refer to:

Religion

* Daya (Sikhism), the concept of compassion in Sikhism * Daya (virtue), the concept of compassion in Hinduism

Media and music

* ''Daya'' (film), a 1998 Malayalam film * ''Daya'' (EP), a 2015 recording by the American singer Daya * ''

Daya — Chentheeyil Chalicha Kumkumapottu ''Daya : Chentheeyil Chalicha Kumkumapottu'' was an Indian television drama series premiered on 1 November 2021 on Asianet and digital platform, Disney+ Hotstar. It is produced by Endemol Shine, it stars Pallavi Gowda in the title role. The sh ...

'', a Malayalam TV serial starring Pallavi Gowda * '' Daya Sagar'', a 1978 Telugu film directed by A. Bhimsingh

Places

Daya, Zanzibar Daya is a village on the Zanzibari island of Pemba in Tanzania. It is located in the northwest of the island, four kilometres south of Wete Wete is a town located on the Tanzanian island of Pemba. It is the capital of Pemba North Region, as well ...

, a village on the island of Pemba * Daya, a historic Sumatran kingdom conquered by Ali Mughayat Syah in the 16th century * Daya Bay, on the south coast of Guangdong Province, China * Daya, Taichung, a suburban district in Taichung, Taiwan * Daya Nueva, a municipality in Alicante Province, Valencian Community, Spain *

Daya River The Daya River starts as a branch of the Kuakhai River at Saradeipur (near Badahati) in Odisha state in India. It is joined by the Malaguni River below Golabai and flows through Khordha and Puri districts before emptying into the north-easter ...

, in Orissa, India *

Daya Vieja Daya Vieja () is a municipality of the Valencian Community (Spain), situated in the south-east of the Province of Alicante, in the comarca of Vega Baja del Segura. Geography Daya Vieja is situated on the western side of the Segura river, one k ...

, a municipality in Alicante Province, Valencian Community, Spain

People

* Daya Pawar (1935–1996), author and poet * Daya Krishna (1924–2007), philosopher * Daya (singer) (born 1998), American singer-songwriter *

Daya Betty Daya Betty is the stage name of Trenton Clarke, an American Drag (entertainment), drag performer who competed on the RuPaul's Drag Race (season 14), fourteenth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. Early life Trenton Clarke was born in Springfield, ...

, American drag queen * Daya, courtesy name for Shi Hong (313–334), Chinese Emperor of Later Zhao

Given name

* Daya Bai, Indian social activist *

Daya Singh Bedi Ambassador Lieutenant-Colonel Baba Daya Singh Bedi (1899–1975) was an Indian diplomat, Civil Servant and a Cavalry officer in the British Indian Army with the 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers (Watson's Horse) who after the partition of ...

(1899–1975), Indian diplomat and officer in the British Indian Army * Daya Ram Dahal, Nepalese film director *

Daya Gamage Daya Dharmapala Kilittuwa Gamage is a Sri Lankan politician and businessman. He is a member of parliament (MP) and former Minister of Primary Industries. And he also the national organizer for the United National Party (UNP). He elected to the ...

, Sri Lankan politician and businessman * Daya Kishore Hazra, Indian doctor * Daya Bir Singh Kansakar (1911–2001), Nepalese social worker * Daya Krishna (1924–2007), Indian philosopher *

Daya Master Velayutham Dayanidhi ( ta, வேலாயுதம் தயாநிதி ''Vēlāyutam Tayāniti''; born 3 March 1954; commonly known as Daya Master) was a leading member and media spokesman for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a ...

(born 1956), Sri Lankan Tamil media spokesman * Daya Mata (1914–2010), American spiritual teacher and leader * Daya Rajasinghe Nadarajasingham (born 1948), Sri Lankan sports shooter *

Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim Daya Shankar Kaul "Nasim" (1811 1845) was an Urdu poet of the 19th century who is best known for his epic '' Gul Bakawali''. He was defended by Brij Narayan Chakbast Brij Narayan Chakbast (19 January 1882 12 February 1926), also spelled as ...

(1811–1845), Indian Urdu-language poet *

Daya Nayak Daya Nayak is an Indian police assistant inspector with the Mumbai police. He joined Mumbai police - then known as Bombay - in 1995, and rose to fame as an encounter-specialist in the late 1990s. As a member of the Detection Unit, he gunned dow ...

, Indian police officer * Daya Shankar Pandey (born 1965), Indian film and television actor * Daya Pathirana (died 1986), assassinated Sri Lankan student leader * Daya Pawar (1935–1996), Indian author and poet * Daya Perera (died 2013), Sri Lankan diplomat and lawyer *

Daya Ratnasooriya Wanigasekera Daya Ratnasooriya (වනිගසේකර දයා රත්නසූරිය) BSc. (Hons)(Cey), PhD (Strathclyde, UK) DSc. (Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) FTWAS, FNASSL, FBiol (Sri Lanka), Charted Biologist, Institute of Biology, Sri ...

, Sri Lankan zoologist * Daya Ratnayake, Sri Lankan Army commander *

B. S. Daya Sagar Behara Seshadri Daya Sagar also known as B. S. Daya Sagar (born in 1967 in India) is an Indian mathematical geoscientist specializing in mathematical morphology. He is a professor of computer science at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalor ...

(born 1967), Indian mathematical geoscientist *

Daya Ram Sahni Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni CIE (16 December 1879 – 7 March 1939) was an Indian archaeologist who supervised the excavation of the Indus valley site at Harappa in 1920 to 1921 But the first report of Harappan excavations came out in 192 ...

(1879–1939), Indian archaeologist * Daya Sandagiri, Sri Lankan Navy commander *

Daya Shankar (cricketer) Daya Shankar was an Indian people, Indian cricketer who played for Gwalior. Shankar made a single First-class cricket, first-class appearance for the side, during the 1943–44 season, against Delhi. From the lower-middle order, he scored a sin ...

, Indian cricketer who played 1943–44 * Daya Shankar (IRS officer), officer of the Indian Revenue Service *

Daya Shetty Dayanand Chandrashekhar Shetty (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian film and television actor and model, best known for his role as Senior Inspector Daya Singh in India's longest-running television police procedural ''CID''. He was inducted in ...

(born 1969), Indian model and actor *

Daya Singh Daya Singh ( ; born Daya Ram; 1661–1708) was one of the Panj Pyare, the first five Sikh Sikhs ( or ; pa, ਸਿੱਖ, ' ) are people who adhere to Sikhism, Sikhism (Sikhi), a Monotheism, monotheistic religion that originated in the ...

(1661–1708), one of the first five Sikhs in the Khalsa order * Daya Singh Sodhi (born 1925), Indian politician *

Daya Vaidya Daya Vivian Vaidya (born May 20, 1980) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Nina Inara in the television series ''Unforgettable''. Early life Vaidya was born on May 20, 1980 in Kathmandu, Nepal to an Indian Gujarati father ...

(born 1980), Nepalese-American actress *

Daya Vati Ram Das (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਰਾਮ ਦਾਸ, pronunciation: ; 24 September 1534 – 1 September 1581) was the fourth of the ten Gurus of Sikhism. He was born in a family based in Lahore. His birth name was Jetha, and he was ...

(1534–1581), Punjabi Sikh Guru * Daya-Nand Verma (1933–2012), Indian mathematician * Daya Wiffen (born 1983), New Zealand netball player

Surname

* Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn al-Daya (835–912), Arab mathematician *

Ali Daya Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Ubaydallah Sadiq ( fa, ابوالحسن علی بن عبیدالله صادق), commonly known as Ali Daya (علی دایا), was a tajik by origin commander who served under the early Ghaznavid rulers, but later fell out of fav ...

(), Tajik commander *

Houda Ben Daya Houda Ben Daya ( ar, هدى بن داية; born July 21, 1979, in Tunis) is a Tunisian judoka, who competed in the women's half-heavyweight category. She picked up a total of five medals, including three golds from the African Championships and a ...

(born 1979), Tunisian judoka * Hugo Daya (born 1963), Colombian cyclist * Kawkab Sabah al-Daya (born 1962), Syrian environmental minister * Navasha Daya, vocalist and original member of American band

Fertile Ground Fertile Ground is an American soul jazz band led by James H. Collins Jr. The group was founded in Baltimore Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth ...

Pradnya Daya Pawar Pradnya Daya Pawar, also known as Pradnya Lokhande, (born February 11, 1966), is an Indian poet and fiction writer of Marathi descent. Pawar has been a member of the Maharashtra State Literary and Cultural Board. Recently she returned her state ...

(born 1966), Indian Marathi-language poet and writer * Sheraz Daya, British ophthalmologist * Wen Daya, 7th-century Chinese writer who recorded the Battle of Huoyi in detail

Fictional

Datu Daya Datu Daya was a legendary lord of Kandaya ("Daya's (kingdom)"), the place that is now known as Daanbantayan, Cebu, in the Philippines. According to oral tradition, Datu Daya was the ruler of the first settlers in northern Cebu. The new settlers c ...

, a legendary tribal chief in the Philippines *

Daya (Senior Inspector) CID is an Indian police procedural television series created by B. P. Singh for Sony Entertainment Television India. The series stars Shivaji Satam as ACP Pradyuman, Aditya Srivastava as Sr. Inspector Abhijeet, Dayanand Shetty as Sr. Inspe ...

, a character in the Indian TV series ''CID'' *

Daya Diaz ''Orange Is the New Black'' is an American comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan that airs on Netflix. It is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, '' Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison'', which chronicles her experiences in a ...

, a character on the American TV series ''Orange Is the New Black''

Other

* Daya, a 2016 tropical storm in the Indian Ocean * Daya Aviation, a domestic Sri Lankan airline * Daya, nickname for the Israeli Air Force 192 Squadron