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Payan or Payán is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Saralah Payan (born 1983), MIS manager in education of iran
- Ana Rosa Payán, Mexican right-wing politician, Director of the National System for Integral Family Development
- Claude-François de Payan (1766–1794), political figure of the French Revolution
- Eliseo Payán (1825–1895), Colombian lawyer, politician, and military officer
- Estevan Payan (born 1982), American professional mixed martial artist
- Eugene Payan (1888–1971), Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Ferdinand Payan, French bicyclist of the early 20th century
- Funda Payan (born 1997), Turkish women's football midfielder
- Ilka Tanya Payán (1943–1996), Dominican-born actress and attorney, later an HIV/AIDS activist in the United States
- Joseph-François de Payan (1759–1852), political figure during the French Revolution, brother of Claude-François de Payan
- Sébastien Payan (born 1986), rugby league player for the Toulouse Olympique team in the Co-operative Championship
- Alan Payan Pryce-Jones TD (1908–2000), British book critic, author, journalist and Liberal Party politician
- Payan Rafat (born 1970), retired Iranian footballer and current coach
Usage examples of "payan".
I am especially indebted to Ilka Tanya Payan, who in her fierce struggle against the terrible plague of AIDS taught me Acknowledgments about the beauty and dignity of the human spirit.
But, gradually, as it was borne in upon him that it was the only course possible, unless he were to grovel before Hargate on the morrow and ask for time to payan unthinkable alternativehe found himself contemplating the possibility of having to secure the money by unlawful means.
Aided by its police gang, the Committee of Public Safety itself selects the sixteen judges and sixty jurymen[122] from among the most servile, the most furious, or the most brutal of the fanatics:[123] Fouquier- Tinville, Hermann, Dumas, Payan, Coffinhal, Fleuriot-Lescot, and, lower down on the scale, apostate priests, renegade nobles, disappointed artists, infatuated studio-apprentices, journeymen scarcely able to write their names, shoemakers, joiners, carpenters, tailors, barbers, former lackeys, an idiot like Ganney, a deaf man like Leroy-Dix-Août.