Dakin (surname)
Dakin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alec Naylor Dakin, cryptographer, Egyptologist and schoolmaster
- Christine Dakin, American dancer, teacher and director
- Glenn Dakin, British cartoonist and author
- Henry Drysdale Dakin, English chemist
- Henry H. Dakin, provincial politician from Alberta, Canada
- James H. Dakin, American architect
- Janet Wilder Dakin, American philanthropist and zoologist
- Jonathan Dakin, English cricketer
- Michael Dakin, retired New Zealand Artillery officer and management consultant
- Nic Dakin, British politician
- Thomas Dakin, English cricketer
- Tim Dakin, Bishop of Winchester, England
- William John Dakin, British-Australian biologist
