Tapan may refer to:
Places Tapan, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality in Azerbaijan Tapan, Dakshin Dinajpur, a village in West Bengal, India Tapan, Homalin, Burma Tapan (Community development block), an administrative sub-district in West Bengal, India Tapan (Vidhan Sabha constituency), an assembly constituency in Dakshin Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal Geghasar, Armenia, formerly known as Tapan Ayuu-Tapan, a village in Osh Region of Kyrgyzstan
People A male given name from Sanskrit meaning shining. Tapan Acharya (born 1981), Indian actor, writer, producer and director in Marathi and Konkani Cinema Tapan Banerjee (1943–2017), Indian cricketer Tapan Barua (????-2014), Indian cricketer Tapan Bhattacharya (born 1949), Indian cricketer Tapan Chowdhury, Bangladeshi businessman Tapan Chowdhury, Bangladeshi musician and former member of the musical band Souls Tapan Das, Indian actor, director and story teller in Assamese cinema and theatre Tapan Deb Singha, Indian politician from West Bengal, member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Indian poet, writer and activist Tapan Kumar Sarkar, Indian-American electrical engineer Tapan Kumar Sen, Indian politician Tapan Mahmud, Bangladeshi Rabindra Sangeet singer Tapan Maity (born 1984), Indian football player Tapan Misra, Indian scientist, director of Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation Tapan Mitra (1948–2019), Indian-born American economist Tapan Raychaudhuri (1926-2014), Indian historian Tapan Sikdar (1944–2014), Indian politician and government minister Tapan Sinha (1924-2009), Indian film director Tapan Sharma (born 1975), Indian cricket umpire
Others Tapan (drum), or davul, a drum used in Balkan and Turkish music
See also Tapani (disambiguation)