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==