Madan may refer to:

Places

Armenia

Kapan Kapan ( ) is a town in southeast Armenia, serving as the administrative centre of the Kapan Municipality and also as the provincial capital of Syunik Province. It is located in the valley of the Voghji (river), Voghji River and is on the norther ...

, 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 ( ) 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 had a population of 6,597.Madan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Madan () is a village in Mashayekh Rural District of Naghan District in Kiar County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Iran. Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 999 in 193 house ...

, a village in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Iran *

Madan, Fars Madan () is a village in Meshkan Rural District of Meshkan District, Neyriz County, Fars province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to ...

, a village in Fars province, Iran * Madan, Kerman, 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, a village in Razavi Khorasan province, Iran * Madan-e Sofla, a village in Razavi Khorasan province, Iran

Syria

Ma'adan Ma'adan () 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 the Raqqa campaig ...

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

People

* Madan (surname) *

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 d ...

, 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 ...

(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 (Arabic: عرب الأهوار ʻArab al-Ahwār "Arabs of the Marshlands"), also referred to as Ahwaris, the Maʻdān (Arabic: معدان "dweller in the plains") or Shroog ( "those from the east")—the latter two often conside ...

, an ethnic group from southern Iraq *

Medan (son of Abraham) According to the Bible, Medan ( ''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 brothers, Zimran, ...

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

Sudalai Madan Sudalai Madan (IAST: ) is a rural Dravidian folk religion deity worshipped predominantly in South India, particularly in the districts of Thoothukudi district, Thoothukudi, Virudhunagar district, Virudhunagar, Tirunelveli district, Tirunelveli ...

, a popular non-Vedic deity in southern India *Madan Chopra, fictional villain from the 1997 Indian film ''

Baazigar ''Baazigar'' () is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir action thriller film directed by Abbas–Mustan and produced by Venus Movies. It stars Shah Rukh Khan in the lead role alongside Kajol, Siddharth, Shilpa Shetty (in her film debut ...

'', played by Dalip Tahil *