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
Tapan Barua (date of birth unknown, died 9 June 2014) was an Indian cricketer. He played fifteen first-class matches for Assam
Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahm ...
(????-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
The soul is the purported immaterial aspect or essence of a living being. It is typically believed to be immortal and to exist apart from the material world. The three main theories that describe the relationship between the soul and the bod ...
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Tapan Das
Tapan Das (born 11 January 1962) is an Indian film actor, director and story writer in Assamese cinema and Mobile theatre in Assam, mobile theatre. He also performs in stage plays.
Early life
Das was born on 11 January 1962 in Guwahati. He ha ...
, 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
Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both ...
(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
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Tapani (disambiguation)
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