Gayen

Gayen, sometimes anglicised as Gain, is a Bengali surname found in the Indian subcontinent, mainly in West Bengal and Bangladesh.^[1] In Bengali, the title Gayen (গায়েন) referred to anyone involved in the medieval bardic tradition, i.e. composition of poetry and music.^[2]

• Anil Kumar Gain (1919–1978), Cambridge mathematician and founder of Vidyasagar University
• Swapan K. Gayen, Bengali-American physicist, researcher at City University of New York
• Kaberi Gain (born 1970), author and social activist, researcher at University of Edinburgh
• Chhanda Gayen (1979–2014), first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
• Prasun Gain (born 1977), Indian actor
• Margaret Gayen (born 1994), Indian-Australian long jumper

• Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen, a classic Bengali film by Satyajit Ray

• The Gayen Estate - Description of the Gayen Zamindari Estate in Dhanyakuria, West Bengal

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Gayen.
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