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| pronunciation = গায়েন (''Ga-en'')<br />
| meaning = [[Bard]]<br />
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'''Gayen''', sometimes anglicised as '''Gain''', is a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] surname found in the [[Indian subcontinent]], mainly in the [[India| Indian]] states of [[West Bengal]], [[Odisha]] and [[Assam]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/28560/1/ALIS%206(3)%2081-91.pdf |date=September 1959 |title=Bengalee surnames |first=S. |last=Mookerjee |volume=6 |issue=3 |journal=Annals of Library and Information Studies |page=6}}</ref> In Bengali, the title ''Gayen'' (গায়েন) referred to anyone involved in the medieval [[bard|bardic tradition]], i.e. composition of [[Bengali poetry]] and [[Music of Bengal|music]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sen Gupta|first1=Shankar|title=Folklorists of Bengal|date=1965|publisher=Indian Publications|location=Calcutta, India|edition=Volume 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BmPhAAAAMAAJ&q=gayen+bards&dq=gayen+bards&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NdFqVeHlONfluQSVsoLICA&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA}}</ref><br />
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== Notable people ==<br />
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* [[Anil Kumar Gain]] (1919 – 1978), [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] mathematician and founder of Vidyasagar University in India, [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]<br />
* [[Swapan K. Gayen]], Bengali-American physicist, researcher at [[City University of New York]]<br />
* [[Kaberi Gain]] (born 1970), author and social activist, researcher at [[University of Edinburgh]]<br />
* [[Chhanda Gayen]] (1979 – 2014), first Bengali woman to climb [[Mount Everest]]<br />
* [[Prasun Gain]], actor<br />
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== In popular culture ==<br />
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* ''[[Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen]]'', a classic Bengali film by [[Satyajit Ray]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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* [http://www.zamindar.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22&Itemid=16 The Gayen Estate] - Description of the Gayen Zamindari Estate in Dhanyakuria, West Bengal<br />
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