Daman may refer to: place

Places

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu is a union territory in India. The territory was constituted through the merger of the former territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Plans for the proposed merger were announced by t ...

, a union territory in India **

Daman and Diu Daman and Diu (; ) was a former union territory in northwestern India. With an area of , it was the smallest administrative subdivision of India on the mainland. The territory comprised two districts, Damaon and Dio island, geographically s ...

, former union territory of India, now part of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu ** Daman district, India ***

Daman, India Daman (; Indo-Portuguese; ''Damao'') is the capital city of the Indian union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is a municipal council situated in the Daman district of the union territory. Daman Ganga River divides Da ...

, a city in India * Daman District, Afghanistan *

Daman, Afghanistan Daman is a village and the center of Daman District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It is located at 1037 m altitude close to the main road from Kandahar to Kabul, east of Kandahar. Villages 1. Dayi, Daman District See also *Kandahar Provinc ...

, a village *

Daman, Nepal Daman () is one of the most beautiful tourist attraction in Thaha Municipality, Makwanpur District, central Nepal. It lies on the Tribhuvan Highway, about southwest of Kathmandu (about halfway to Hetauda) at an elevation of . Daman has among th ...

, a village *

Dammam Dammam ( ar, الدمّام ') is the fifth-most populous city in Saudi Arabia after Riyadh, Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina. It is the capital of the Eastern Province. With a total population of 1,252,523 as of 2020. The judicial and administrative ...

, a city in Saudi Arabia * Damaan Valley (Daman valley), a valley in Pakistan

People

* Saint Daman, Irish Christian saint *

Damara people The Damara, plural Damaran (Khoekhoegowab: ǂNūkhoen, ''Black people'', german: Bergdamara, referring to their extended stay in hilly and mountainous sites, also called at various times the Daman or the Damaqua) are an ethnic group who make ...

, also known as the Daman, an ethnic group in Namibia *

Heshana Khan Heshana Qaghan or Heshana Khagan ( Chinese: 曷娑那可汗, (Pinyin): hésuōnà kěhàn, ( Wade-Giles): ho-so-na k'o-han, Middle Chinese (Guangyun) or 曷薩那可汗/曷萨那可汗, hésànà kěhàn, ho-sa-na k'o-han; at one point known as C ...

(died 619), personal name Ashina Daman, a khan of the Western Turkic Khaganate *

Daman Hongren Hongren (, 601–674), posthumous name ''Daman'', was the 5th Patriarch of Chan Buddhism (Chinese: 禅宗五祖). Hongren is said to have received Dharma transmission from Dayi Daoxin and passed on the symbolic bowl and robe of transmission to ...

(601-674), Chinese Buddhist patriarch *

Rick Daman Rick Daman is a Dutch sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 10000 m event at the 1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Tampere, Finlan ...

, Dutch sprint canoer *

Ustad Daman Ustad Daman (Punjabi, ur, , (born as Chiragh Deen), Punjabi, ur, ), (3 September 1911 – 3 December 1984) was a Punjabi poet, writer and a mystic.William Daman William Daman (or William Damon; died 1591) was a musician in England in the royal household of Elizabeth I. His few surviving compositions include an early setting of the Psalms to part-music. Life Daman is thought to have come to England as a ...

(died 1591), musician in England

Other uses

Cyclone Daman Severe Tropical Cyclone Daman (RSMC Nadi designation 04F, JTWC designation 05P) was the strongest cyclone of the 2007–08 South Pacific cyclone season. Cyclone Daman was the fourth tropical depression and the first severe tropical cyclone to fo ...

, December 2007 *

Battle of Dasman Palace The Battle of Dasman Palace ( ''maʿraka Qaṣr Dasmān''), also called the Battle of Dasman, was a battle between the Kuwaiti and Iraqi forces during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990. Battle On 2 August 1990, shortly after 00: ...

, also called the Battle of Daman, fought on August 2–3, 1990, during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait *

Daman Indo-Portuguese language The Daman and Diu Portuguese Creole, pt, língua crioula de Damão e Diu and by its native speakers as meaning "home language", refers to variety of Indo-Portuguese creole spoken in the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu union terri ...

, spoken in Daman and Diu *

Daman, National Health Insurance Company The National Health Insurance Company – Daman, (Arabic: ضمان) (الشركة الوطنية للضمان الصحي), headquartered in Abu Dhabi, is the largest health insurance provider in Abu Dhabi and the third largest in Dubai Dubai ...

, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates *

Daman (2001 film) ''Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence'' is a 2001 Indian drama film directed by Kalpana Lajmi released on 4 May 2001. The lead actress, Raveena Tandon, won the distinguished National Film Award for Best Actress for her role as Durga Saikia. T ...

, a Hindi film starring Raveena Tandon * Daman, a term used in some Bible translations for the

rock hyrax The rock hyrax (; ''Procavia capensis''), also called dassie, Cape hyrax, rock rabbit, and (in the King James Bible) coney, is a medium-sized terrestrial mammal native to Africa and the Middle East. Commonly referred to in South Africa as the ...

Daman (2022 film) ''DAMaN'', stands for ''Durgama Anchalare Malaria Nirakarana'' (), is a 2022 Indian Odia biographical social drama film written and directed by Vishal Mourya and Debi Prasad Lenka and produced by Deependra Samal. The film stars Babushaan Moha ...

, an Odia language film starring

Babushaan Mohanty Babushaan (born 30 July 1989 as Tanmay Mohanty) is an Indian actor and playback singer who predominantly works in Odia movies. He debuted in Ollywood through ''Romeo - The Lover Boy'' in 2009 directed by Hara Patnaik. Early life Babushaan was b ...

and Dipanwit Dashmohapatra