What is "nayan"

Nayan can refer to:

• Nayanthara, actress
• Nayan Desai, poet
• Nayan Mongia, cricketer
• Nayan Ghosh, musician
• Nayan Doshi, cricketer
• Nayan Shah, professor
• Nayan Chanda, magazine editor
• Nayan (Mongol Prince)

Nayan was a prince of the Borjigin royal family of the Mongol Empire. He raised a noteworthy and serious rebellion against the Mongolian Khagan, Kublai Khan. He was a Nestorian Christian. Much of what is known of Nayan was recorded by the Venetian traveller Marco Polo.