Mahan (name)
Mahan is both a surname and a given name.
When used as both a male or female given name in Persian (ماهان māhān), it means "like the moon" or "moon-like", or even referring to something "as beautiful as the moon".
Notable people with the name include:
Surname[]
- Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), American officer, geostrategist, and naval historian
- Armand Mahan (born 1983), Ivorian football player
- Art Mahan (1913–2010), American baseball player
- Asa Mahan (1800–1889), first president of Oberlin College
- Dennis Hart Mahan (1802–1871), professor at the US Military Academy, father of Alfred
- Eddie Mahan (1892–1975), American football player
- Hunter Mahan (born 1981), American golfer
- Larry Mahan (born 1943), eight time rodeo world champion
- Sean Mahan (born 1980), American football player
- William Dennes Mahan (1824–1906), Presbyterian minister and author of The Archko Volume
Given name[]
- Mahan Mitra, Indian mathematician
- Mahan Esfahani, Iranian-American harpsichordist
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