title: Mahan (name)
text: # Mahan (name)
  
  Mahan is both a surname and a given name.
  
  When used as given name in Persian (ماهان māhān), it means "like the moon" or "moon-like", or even referring to something "as beautiful as the moon".
  
  Notable people with the name include:
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), American officer, geostrategist, and naval historian
  * Armand Mahan (born 1983), Ivorian football player
  * Art Mahan (1913–2010), American baseball player
  * Asa Mahan (1800–1889), first president of Oberlin College
  * Dennis Hart Mahan (1802–1871), professor at the US Military Academy, father of Alfred
  * Eddie Mahan (1892–1975), American football player
  * Hunter Mahan (born 1981), American golfer
  * Larry Mahan (1943–2023), eight time rodeo world champion
  * Sean Mahan (born 1980), American football player
  * William Dennes Mahan (1824–1906), Presbyterian minister and author of The Archko Volume
  
  ## Given name
  
  * Mahan Mitra (born 1968), Indian mathematician
  * Mahan Esfahani (born 1984), Iranian-American harpsichordist
  