{{For|the unrelated English surname|Gaines (surname)}} {{Infobox surname | name = Gayen, Gain | image = | image_size = | caption = | pronunciation = গায়েন (''Ga-en'') | meaning = Bard | motto = | region = Bengal | languageorigin = | variant = | family = | footnotes = | nolinklanguage = }} '''Gayen''', sometimes anglicised as '''Gain''', is a Bengali surname found in the Indian subcontinent, mainly in West Bengal and Bangladesh.<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 bardic tradition, i.e. composition of poetry and 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}}</ref>
== Notable people ==
* Anil Kumar Gain (1919–1978), Cambridge mathematician and founder of Vidyasagar University * Swapan K. Gayen, Bengali-American physicist, researcher at City University of New York * Kaberi Gain (born 1970), author and social activist, researcher at University of Edinburgh * Chhanda Gayen (1979–2014), first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest * Prasun Gain (born 1977), Indian actor * Margaret Gayen (born 1994), Indian-Australian long jumper
== In popular culture ==
* ''Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen'', a classic Bengali film by Satyajit Ray
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links ==
* [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
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