Gayen

For the unrelated English surname, see Gaines (surname).

Gayen, GainPronunciation| গায়েন (Ga-en)

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Origin
Meaning| Bard
Region of origin| Bengal

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]

## Notable people

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* 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

## In popular culture

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

## References

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1. ^ Mookerjee, S. (September 1959). "Bengalee surnames" (PDF). Annals of Library and Information Studies. 6 (3): 6.
2. ^ Sen Gupta, Shankar (1965). Folklorists of Bengal (Volume 1 ed.). Calcutta, India: Indian Publications.

## External links

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

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