Tapan may refer to:

Places

  • Tapan, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality in Azerbaijan
  • Tapan, Dakshin Dinajpur, a village in West Bengal, India
  • Tapan, Homalin, Burma
  • Tapan (Community development block), an administrative sub-district in West Bengal, India
  • Tapan (Vidhan Sabha constituency), an assembly constituency in Dakshin Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal
  • Geghasar, Armenia, formerly known as Tapan
  • Ayuu-Tapan, a village in Osh Region of Kyrgyzstan

People

A male given name from Sanskrit meaning shining.

  • Tapan Acharya (born 1981), Indian actor, writer, producer and director in Marathi and Konkani Cinema
  • Tapan Banerjee (1943–2017), Indian cricketer
  • Tapan Barua (????-2014), Indian cricketer
  • Tapan Bhattacharya (born 1949), Indian cricketer
  • Tapan Chowdhury, Bangladeshi businessman
  • Tapan Chowdhury, Bangladeshi musician and former member of the musical band Souls
  • Tapan Das, Indian actor, director and story teller in Assamese cinema and theatre
  • Tapan Deb Singha, Indian politician from West Bengal, member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
  • Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Indian poet, writer and activist
  • Tapan Kumar Sarkar, Indian-American electrical engineer
  • Tapan Kumar Sen, Indian politician
  • Tapan Mahmud, Bangladeshi Rabindra Sangeet singer
  • Tapan Maity (born 1984), Indian football player
  • Tapan Misra, Indian scientist, director of Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation
  • Tapan Mitra (1948–2019), Indian-born American economist
  • Tapan Raychaudhuri (1926-2014), Indian historian
  • Tapan Sikdar (1944–2014), Indian politician and government minister
  • Tapan Sinha (1924-2009), Indian film director
  • Tapan Sharma (born 1975), Indian cricket umpire

Others

  • Tapan (drum), or davul, a drum used in Balkan and Turkish music

See also

  • Tapani (disambiguation)