Dai (given name)
Dai is a given name. In Welsh it's a masculine given name, a hypocorism of Dafydd or David, as well as a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Dai Ailian, Chinese dancer
- Dai Andrews, American performance and visual artist
- Dai Baldé, Bissau-Guinean footballer
- Dai Bingguo, Chinese politician and diplomat
- Dai Bradley, English actor
- Dai Buell, American pianist and teacher
- Dai Davies, Welsh footballer
- Dai Davies, Welsh footballer
- Dai Davies, Welsh politician
- Dai Greene, a British hurdler
- Dai Fujikura, Japanese classical composer
- Dai Henwood, New Zealand comedian
- Dai Jin, Chinese painter
- Dai Le, Vietnamese-born Australian politician
- Dai Li, Chinese spymaster
- Dai Matsumoto, Japanese voice actor
- Dai Dai N'tab, Dutch long track speed skater
- Dai Nagao, Japanese composer, musician and producer
- Dai Oketani, Japanese basketball coach
- Dai Qing, Chinese journalist
- Dai Satō, Japanese screenwriter and musician
- Dai Sijie, Chinese-French author and filmmaker
- Dai Vernon, Canadian magician
- Dai Wai Tsun, Hong Kong-born Chinese professional footballer
- Dai Vernon, Canadian magician
- Dai Ward, Wales international footballer
- Dai Xi, Chinese painter
- Dai Yi, Chinese historian
- Dai Yongge, Chinese businessman and entrepreneur
- Dai Young, Wales international rugby union player
- Dai Zhen, Chinese philosopher
Fictional characters
- Dai, the title character in the manga series Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai
- Dai Blackthorn, a character from the role-playing game GURPS
- Dai Bread, a bigamist character in Dylan Thomas' 1954 Radio play Under Milk Wood.
- Mrs Dai Bread One, Dai Bread's first wife.
- Mrs Dai Bread Two, Dai Bread's second wife.
- Dai Dickins, character in the Discworld novel Night Watch, and martyr of the Glorious Revolution Twenty-Fifth of May
- Dai Evans, character in the 1973 Doctor Who serial The Green Death
- Dai Greatcoat, a character from David Jones' In Parenthesis
- Dai Takabayashi, a fictional character from the anime series Super Doll Licca-chan
- Dai Station, a character from the Welsh animation series Ivor the Engine
- Dai Bando, a minor character in Richard Llewellyn's novel How Green Was My Valley, played by Rhys Williams in the John Ford film of the same name