Dai (given name)

Dai is a Welsh masculine given name, a hypocorism of Dafydd or David, as well as a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

* Dai Buell (died 1939), American pianist and teacher
* Dai Davies (footballer, born 1880)
* Dai Davies (footballer, born 1948)
* Dai Davies (politician)
* David Duckham, English international rugby union player, also known as Dai Duckham
* Dai Greene, a British hurdler
* Dai Fujikura (藤倉 大, born 1977), Japanese classical composer
* Dai Henwood, New Zealand comedian
* Dai Matsumoto (松本 大, born 1959), Japanese voice actor
* Dai Nagao, Japanese composer, musician and producer
* Dai Oketani (桶谷 大, born 1977), Japanese basketball coach
* Dai Satō (佐藤 大, born 1969), Japanese screenwriter and musician
* Dai Vernon, a Canadian magician
* Dai Ward, Wales international footballer
* Dai Young, Wales international rugby union player

## Fictional characters[edit]

* Dai, the title character in the manga series Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai
* Dai Blackthorn, a character from the role-playing game GURPS
* Dai Bread, a bigamist character in Dylan Thomas' 1954 Radio play Under Milk Wood.
* Mrs Dai Bread One, Dai Bread's first wife.
* Mrs Dai Bread Two, Dai Bread's second wife.
* Dai Dickins, character in the Discworld novel Night Watch, and martyr of the Glorious Revolution Twenty-Fifth of May
* Dai Evans, character in the 1973 Doctor Who serial The Green Death
* Dai Greatcoat, a character from David Jones' In Parenthesis
* Dai Takabayashi (高林 ダイ), a fictional character from the anime series Super Doll Licca-chan
* Dai Station, a character from the Welsh animation series Ivor the Engine
* Dai Bando, a minor character in Richard Llewellyn's novel How Green Was My Valley, played by Rhys Williams in the John Ford film of the same name

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