Mahan (name)
Mahan is both a surname and a given name.
When used as given name in Persian, it means "like the moon" or "moon-like", or even referring to something "as beautiful as the moon".
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Mahan Singh, Chief of the Sukerchakia Misl of the Sikh Confederacy
- Mahan Mitra, Indian mathematician
- Mahan Esfahani, Iranian-American harpsichordist
Surname
- Alex Mahan, American video game developer
- Alfred Thayer Mahan, American officer, geostrategist, and naval historian
- Armand Mahan, Ivorian football player
- Art Mahan, American baseball player
- Asa Mahan, first president of Oberlin College
- Dennis Hart Mahan, professor at the US Military Academy, father of Alfred
- Eddie Mahan, American football player
- Hunter Mahan, American golfer
- Larry Mahan, eight time rodeo world champion
- Sean Mahan, American football player
- William Dennes Mahan, Presbyterian minister and author of ''The Archko Volume''