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Gayen

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Pronunciation
  
গায়েন (Ga-en)

Region of origin
  
Bengal

Meaning
  
Bard

Gayen, sometimes anglicised as Gain, is a surname of Bengali origin found in the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam, as well as in Bangladesh. In Bengali, the title Gayen (গায়েন) referred to anyone involved in the medieval bardic tradition, i.e. composition of Bengali poetry and music.

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Notable people

  • Anil Kumar Gain (1919 – 1978), Cambridge mathematician and founder of Vidyasagar University in Bengal, Fellow of the Royal Society
  • Swapan K. Gayen, Bengali-American physicist, Professor of Physics at the City University of New York
  • Kaberi Gain (born 1970), author and social activist, professor at the University of Edinburgh
  • Chhanda Gayen (1979 – 2014), first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
  • Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen, a classic Bengali film by Satyajit Ray

    • References

    Gayen Wikipedia
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