Dal (name) explained

Dal is a surname, a masculine given name and a nickname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Dal Bahadur, Indian politician
• Dal Collins (1907–2001), South African cricket umpire
• Dal Bahadur Gurung (1922–1992), Nepalese person mistaken for an imaginary character
• Dal Joon Lee (1939–2010), American table tennis player
• Dal Mardan Shah (r. 1764-1765), king of the Malla state of Patan in Nepal
• Dal Millington Lemmon (1887–1958), American judge
• Dal Bahadur Rana, Nepalese politician
• Dal Shealy (born 1938), American football player
• Dal Singh (politician) (1915–1991), Indian politician
• Dal Bahadur Sunar (born 1959), Nepalese politician
• Dal Singh Thapa, a leader of Nepali Congress imprisoned for a 1961 assassination attempt

Nickname

• Dal Dozzi (1936–2012), Australian rules footballer Adelio Paul Dozzi
• Dal Maxvill (born 1939), American baseball player Charles Dallan Maxvill
• Dal Stivens (1911–1997), Australian writer Dallas George Stivens

Surname

• Nedim Dal (Edin Delić, born 1975), Bosnian-born Turkish basketball player
• Oleg Dal (1941–1981), Soviet actor
• Vladimir Dal (1801–1872), Russian lexicographer