Taine is a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

  • Taine Basham (born 1999), Welsh rugby player
  • Taine Murray (born 2002), New Zealand basketball player
  • Taine Paton (born 1989), South African field hockey player
  • Taine Pechet, American surgeon
  • Taine Plumtree (born 2000), Welsh born New Zealand rugby player
  • Taine Randell (born 1974), New Zealand rugby player
  • Taine Robinson (born 1999), New Zealand rugby player
  • Taine Tuaupiki (born 1999), New Zealand rugby player

Surname

  • Christophe Taine (born 1973), French footballer
  • Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French critic and historian
  • John Taine, pen name of Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960), Scottish novelist

Fictional characters

  • Charles Foster Taine, in the DC Comics universe
  • Hiram Taine, protagonist in the 1958 novel The Big Front Yard by Clifford Simak
  • Roger Taine, protagonist of the novels A Rough Shoot and A Time to Kill by Geoffrey Household
  • Sydney Taine, in the Nightside comic series of Robert Weinberg

See also

  • Antaine
  • Tain (disambiguation)
  • Tana (disambiguation)
  • Toine