Dayan may refer to:
People
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Dayan (surname), Hebrew surname
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Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan ( he, משה דיין; 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) du ...
(1915–1981), Israeli military leader and politician
Given name
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Dayan Deerh
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 Jayatil ...
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Dayán Díaz
Dayán Enrique Díaz (born February 10, 1989) is a Colombian former professional baseball pitcher. He previously played for the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros.
Career
Cincinnati Reds
Díaz was called up to the majors for the first time on Ma ...
(born 1989), Colombian professional baseball pitcher
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Dayan Jayatilleka, (born 1956), leftist Sri Lankan academic, diplomat, writer and politician
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Dayan Khan, Mongol ruler of Dayan
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Dayan Khan (Khoshut)
Dayan Khan ( mn, dayan qaɣan, died 22 April 1668) was the second khan of the Khoshut Khanate and protector-king of Tibet, ruling from 1655 to 1668. He sat on the throne during the time of the 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, but did not ...
, ruler of the Khoshut Khanate
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Dayan Rajapakse
Chaminda Dayan Rajapakse, British Computer Society, MBCS, IEEE, MIEEE, Computer Society of Sri Lanka, MCS (SL) (8 October 1972 – ) is a Sri Lankan physician, teacher, and businessman. He is the managing director of ESOFT Computer Studies Pvt ...
(born 1972), Sri Lankan physician, educator and businessman
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Dayan Téllez
Dayan Téllez Domínguez (born 11 February 2002), is a Mexican football goalkeeper who currently plays for Deportivo Toluca of the Liga MX Femenil.
Club career
Toluca
On 19 August 2017, Téllez made her Liga MX Femenil debut as a 45th-minute su ...
(born 2002), Mexican football goalkeeper
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Dayán Viciedo (born 1989), Cuban professional baseball infielder
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Dayan van der Westhuizen
Dayan Leslie van der Westhuizen (born 5 April 1994 in Wellington, Western Cape, Wellington, South Africa) is a South African rugby union player for the in Super Rugby, the in the Currie Cup and the in the Rugby Challenge (South Africa), Rugby ...
(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
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Dayan Township
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 Jayatill ...
, in
Jiangyou, Sichuan, China
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Dayan, Iran
Dayan ( fa, دايان, also Romanized as Dāyān) is a village in Keyvan Rural District, in the Central District (Khoda Afarin County), Central District of Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. According to 2006 census, its populat ...
, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
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Dayan Lake
Dayan Lake ( mn, Даян нуур, zh, 达彥湖) is a lake located the district of Sagsai, in the Bayan-Ölgii Province of western Mongolia. It is recognized by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area since 2009. It is located in t ...
, in Bayan-Ölgii, Mongolia
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Dayan Town (disambiguation) Dayan Town may refer to:
* Dayan or Old Town of Lijiang, World Heritage Site in Yunnan, China
* Dayan Township, in Jiangyou, Sichuan, China
* Dayan in Evenk Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
* Dayan, Fenghua District
Fenghua (; ) is a district of t ...
Others
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Dayan (rabbinic judge)
A beit din ( he, בית דין, Bet Din, house of judgment, , Ashkenazic: ''beis din'', plural: batei din) is a rabbinical court of Judaism. In ancient times, it was the building block of the legal system in the Biblical Land of Israel. Today, it ...
, Jewish religious judge in a Beth din
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Dayan (witch)
Daayan, Ḍāin or Ḍāini is often mistakenly regarded as a rendering for a witch (human female practitioner of black magic) in Indian folklore, the term has been derived from the Sanskrit word '' dakini'', which refers to a female paranorma ...
, a witch or vengeful female spirit in Indian culture
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Northern Yuan dynasty, also Dayan in Mongolian
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Yuan dynasty, Dayan in Mongolian
* Dayan, a
Rubik's Cube
The Rubik's Cube is a Three-dimensional space, 3-D combination puzzle originally invented in 1974 by Hungarians, Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik t ...
Company
* ''Dayan'', the smaller drum of the
tabla set
See also
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Dayana
Dayana is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
* Dayana (pronunciation d̪ ɪ ɑ ɴ ɑ, Language Hebrew, the Judge) variant of the given name Diana
* Dayana Cadeau (born 1966), Haitian-born Canadian American professi ...
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Dayyán
The great Dayyan ( ar, میرزا أسد الله), often referred to as Dayyán, was a Bábí follower, a religion founded by the Báb in Persia in 1844. The Báb wrote numerous tablets of praise to Dayyán recognising his devotion to the new r ...
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