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Шаблон:About Dayan (Шаблон:Script/Hebrew) is a Hebrew surname. It means a Jewish religious judge in a Beth din—a position conferring social prestige in a traditional Jewish community, and therefore one whose memory is likely to be retained as a family's surname even after the passage of many generations.
Notable persons with the surname include:
- Shmuel Dayan (1891–1968), Zionist activist and Israeli politician (father of Moshe)
- Moshe Dayan (1915–1981), Israeli military leader and politician
- Ruth Dayan (1917–2021), widow of Moshe
- Assi Dayan (1945–2014), Israeli film director, actor (son of Moshe)
- Yael Dayan (born 1939), Israeli politician and author (daughter of Moshe)
- Uzi Dayan (born 1948), Israeli general and politician (nephew of Moshe)
- Dani Dayan (born 1955), Chairman of Yad Vashem (relative)
- Ilana Dayan (born 1964), Israeli investigative journalist, jurist and anchorwoman (relative)
- Charles Dayan (1792–1877), American lawyer and politician
- Charles Dayan (real estate developer) (born 1941), American real estate developer
- Colin Dayan, American professor
- Daniel Dayan (born 1943), social scientist
- David Ben Dayan (born 1978), Israeli football player
- Haim Dayan (born 1960), Israeli politician
- Michele Dayan (born 1961), Israeli football player and manager
- Peter Dayan, neuroscience scholar
- Rebecca Dayan, French-American actress and model
- Roei Dayan (born 1984), Israeli football player
- Yosef Dayan (born 1945), Israeli political activist
Notable persons with the given name Dayan (not always linguistically related) include:
- Dayán Viciedo (born 1989), Cuban baseball player
- David Dayan Fisher, British actor
- Dayan Jayatilleka, Sri Lankan Sinhalese academic, diplomat, politician, writer; he was named after Moshe Dayan
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