Madan may refer to:

Places

Armenia

Kapan Kapan ( hy, Կապան) is a town in southeast Armenia, serving as the administrative center of the urban community of Kapan as well as the provincial capital of Syunik Province. It is located in the valley of the Voghji River and is on the nort ...

, a city in Armenia, formerly ''Madan'' *Madan, a small village above Alaverdi in Lori Marz

Bulgaria

* Madan, Montana Province, a village in the Boychinovtsi municipality of northwestern Bulgaria *

Madan, Smolyan Province Madan ( bg, Мадан ) is a town in Smolyan Province, the very south of Bulgaria in the Yellow Share of the Rhodope Mountains. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Madan Municipality. In 2019, the town has a population of 6,597 i ...

, a town and municipality in southern Bulgaria

Iran

Madan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Madan ( fa, معدن, also Romanized as Ma‘dan and Ma’aden) is a village in Mashayekh Rural District, Naghan District, Kiar County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and ...

, a village in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran * Madan, Fars, a village in Fars Province, Iran *

Madan, Kerman Madan ( fa, معدن, also Romanized as Ma‘dan) is a village in Khabar Rural District (Baft County), Khabar Rural District, in the Central District (Baft County), Central District of Baft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its pop ...

, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Radeh-ye Madan, also known as Madan, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran * Madan, Qazvin, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran * Madan, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran *

Madan-e Olya Madan-e Olya ( fa, معدن عليا, also Romanized as Ma‘dan-e ‘Olyā; also known as Ma‘dan-e Bālā, Bār-e Ma‘dan-e Bālā, Bār Ma‘dan ‘Olyā, Ma‘dan, and Maidān) is a village in Firuzeh Rural District, in the Central District ( ...

, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran *

Madan-e Sofla Madan-e Sofla ( fa, معدن سفلي, also Romanized as Ma‘dan-e Soflá; also known as Ma‘dan-e Pā’īn and Bār Ma‘dan Soflá) is a village in Firuzeh Rural District, in the Central District of Firuzeh County, Razavi Khorasan Province, ...

, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

Syria

Ma'adan Ma'adan ( ar, معدان) is a Syrian town in Raqqa District, Raqqa. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Ma'adan had a population of 8,663 in the 2004 census. Syrian Civil War Ma'adan was captured by rebel forces in th ...

, a town in central Syria, also known as ''Madan''

People

Madan (surname) Madan/Madaan is a surname. In India it is found among Punjabi Aroras and Kashmiri Brahmins. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Cornwallis Madan, British linguist of African languages (Swahili and others) and UMCA missionary (Zanz ...

Madan (film director) Ramigani Madan Mohan Reddy (died 19 November 2022), better known as R. R. Madan or simply Madan, was an Indian Telugu film director, writer and producer. He was born and brought up in Madanapalle, Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. He has do ...

, Telugu film writer and director *

Madan Puri Madan Puri (30 September 1915 – 13 January 1985) was an Indian actor of Hindi and Punjabi films. His brothers were actors Chaman Puri and Amrish Puri. As a character actor mainly in negative roles (villain), he acted in about 430 films in a ca ...

(1915–1985), Indian actor *

Madan Rai Madan Rai was the penultimate chief minister of medieval Sylhet's Gour Kingdom. He was described to have been very sharp and "shrewd". Office Appointed as Chief Minister of Gour, Madan Rai was stationed on a hillock (now known as Mona Rai's Til ...

, thirteenth century minister of Gour (northern Sylhet)

Other uses

Madan (people) The Marsh Arabs ( ar, عرب الأهوار ''ʻArab al-Ahwār'' "Arabs of the Marshlands"), also referred to as the Maʻdān ( ar, معدان "dweller in the plains") or Shroog (Iraqi ar, شروق, "those from the east")—the latter two often ...

, an ethnic group from southern Iraq *

Medan (son of Abraham) According to the Bible, Medan ( he, מְדָן ''Məḏān'' "contention; to twist, conflict"); also spelt Madan was the third son of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, and Keturah whom he wed after the death of Sarah. Medan had five brothe ...

* "Madan" (song), a 2003 song by Martin Solveig and Salif Keita *

Sudalai Madan Sudalai Madan (IAST: ) is a rural Dravidian folk tradition deity worshipped predominantly in South India, particularly in the districts of Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Kanyakumari, and Thiruvananthapuram. He is considered by adherents t ...

, a popular non-Vedic deity in southern India *

Mad'an (slave) Mad'an (ميداس) was a slave of Muhammad mentioned in the Hadith. He was an African slave given to Muhummad in 628 AD by a man called Rifa'ah bin Zaid, from the Banu Ad-Dubaib. Mad'an was shot by an arrow in a place called Wadi al-Qura ( W ...