Dakin (surname)
Dakin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alec Naylor Dakin, cryptographer, Egyptologist and schoolmaster
- Christine Dakin, American dancer, teacher and director
- Glenn Dakin, British cartoonist and author
- Henry Drysdale Dakin, English chemist after whom is named Dakin's solution and Dakin oxidation
- Henry H. Dakin, provincial politician from Alberta, Canada
- James H. Dakin, American architect
- Janet Wilder Dakin, American philanthropist and zoologist
- Jonathan Dakin, English cricketer
- Nic Dakin, British politician
- Nigel Dakin, Soldier, Diplomat and Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Rhys Dakin, Australian-American football player
- Thomas Dakin (cricketer), English cricketer
- Thomas Dakin (distiller), English distiller and founder of Greenall's Gin
- Tim Dakin, Bishop of Winchester, England
- William H. Dakin, American politician in Wisconsin
- William John Dakin, British-Australian biologist