Dai (given name)
Dai is a Welsh masculine given name, a hypocorism of Dafydd or David, as well as a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Dai Buell (died 1939), American pianist and teacher
- Dai Davies (footballer, born 1880)
- Dai Davies (footballer, born 1948)
- Dai Davies (politician)
- David Duckham, English international rugby union player, also known as Dai Duckham
- Dai Greene, a British hurdler
- Dai Fujikura (藤倉 大, born 1977), Japanese classical composer
- Dai Henwood, New Zealand comedian
- Dai Matsumoto (松本 大, born 1959), Japanese voice actor
- Dai Nagao, Japanese composer, musician and producer
- Dai Oketani (桶谷 大, born 1977), Japanese basketball coach
- Dai Satō (佐藤 大, born 1969), Japanese screenwriter and musician
- Dai Vernon, a Canadian magician
- Dai Ward, Wales international footballer
- Dai Young, Wales international rugby union player
Fictional characters[edit]
- Dai, the title character in the manga series Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai
- Dai Blackthorn, a character from the role-playing game GURPS
- Dai Bread, a bigamist character in Dylan Thomas' 1954 Radio play Under Milk Wood.
- Mrs Dai Bread One, Dai Bread's first wife.
- Mrs Dai Bread Two, Dai Bread's second wife.
- Dai Dickins, character in the Discworld novel Night Watch, and martyr of the Glorious Revolution Twenty-Fifth of May
- Dai Evans, character in the 1973 Doctor Who serial The Green Death
- Dai Greatcoat, a character from David Jones' In Parenthesis
- Dai Takabayashi (高林 ダイ), a fictional character from the anime series Super Doll Licca-chan
- Dai Station, a character from the Welsh animation series Ivor the Engine
- Dai Bando, a minor character in Richard Llewellyn's novel How Green Was My Valley, played by Rhys Williams in the John Ford film of the same name