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

• 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