Dakin (surname)

Dakin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alec Naylor Dakin (1912–2003), cryptographer, Egyptologist and schoolmaster
• Christine Dakin (born 1949), American dancer, teacher and director
• Glenn Dakin (born 1960), British cartoonist and author
• Henry Drysdale Dakin (1880–1952), English chemist after whom is named Dakin's solution and Dakin oxidation
• Henry H. Dakin (1870–1956), provincial politician from Alberta, Canada
• James H. Dakin (1806–1852), American architect
• Janet Wilder Dakin (1910–1994), American philanthropist and zoologist
• Jonathan Dakin (born 1973), English cricketer
• Nic Dakin (born 1955), British politician
• Nigel Dakin (born 1964), Soldier, Diplomat and Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands
• Rhys Dakin (born 2004), Australian-American football player
• Thomas Dakin (cricketer) (1829–?), English cricketer
• Thomas Dakin (distiller) (c.1736–c.1790), English distiller and founder of Greenall's Gin
• Tim Dakin (born 1958), Bishop of Winchester, England
• William H. Dakin (1816–1892), American politician in Wisconsin
• William John Dakin (1883–1950), British-Australian biologist

Dakin, a side character from Hadleigh, portrayed by Peter Sallis