Tapan may refer to:
Places
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Tapan, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality in Azerbaijan
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Tapan, Dakshin Dinajpur, a village in West Bengal, India
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Tapan, Homalin, Burma
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Tapan (Community development block), an administrative sub-district in West Bengal, India
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Tapan (Vidhan Sabha constituency), an assembly constituency in Dakshin Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal
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Geghasar, Armenia, formerly known as Tapan
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Ayuu-Tapan, a village in Osh Region of Kyrgyzstan
People
A male given name from Sanskrit meaning shining.
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Tapan Acharya (born 1981), Indian actor, writer, producer and director in Marathi and Konkani Cinema
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Tapan Banerjee (1943–2017), Indian cricketer
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Tapan Barua (????-2014), Indian cricketer
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Tapan Bhattacharya (born 1949), Indian cricketer
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Tapan Chowdhury, Bangladeshi businessman
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Tapan Chowdhury, Bangladeshi musician and former member of the musical band Souls
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Tapan Das, Indian actor, director and story teller in Assamese cinema and theatre
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Tapan Deb Singha, Indian politician from West Bengal, member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Indian poet, writer and activist
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Tapan Kumar Sarkar, Indian-American electrical engineer
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Tapan Kumar Sen, Indian politician
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Tapan Mahmud, Bangladeshi Rabindra Sangeet singer
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Tapan Maity (born 1984), Indian football player
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Tapan Misra, Indian scientist, director of Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation
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Tapan Mitra (1948–2019), Indian-born American economist
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Tapan Raychaudhuri (1926-2014), Indian historian
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Tapan Sikdar (1944–2014), Indian politician and government minister
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Tapan Sinha (1924-2009), Indian film director
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Tapan Sharma (born 1975), Indian cricket umpire
Others
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Tapan (drum), or davul, a drum used in Balkan and Turkish music
See also
