Dayal is a name and given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Benny Dayal (born 1984), a UAE born Indian playback singer
• Bhagwat Dayal Sharma or B. D. Sharma (1918–1993), first Chief Minister of Haryana of Independent India
• Bhawani Dayal Arya College, formerly known as Bhawani Dayal High School, a school established in Fiji in 1972
• Dadu Dayal (1544–1603), saint from Gujarat, India
• Data Dayal Maharishi or Maharishi Shiv Brat Lal, born in Bhadohi District of Uttar Pradesh state in India in 1860
• Dau Dayal Joshi, former member of Lok Sabha from Kota
• Dayal Ji or Advaitanand Ji (1846–1919), son of Tulsi Das Ji, born in Pukh, Nakshatra in the province of Bihar, India
• Dayal Padmanabhan (born 1970), Indian film director and producer
• Dayal Thakur (born 1952), Indian classical singer in the North Indian Hindustani music tradition
• Deen Dayal Upadhyaya or Deendayal Upadhyaya (1916–1968), leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, now the Bharatiya Janata Party
• Har Dayal (1884–1939), Indian nationalist revolutionary who founded the Ghadar Party in America
• Ishwar Dayal Mishra, Nepalese politician, belonging to the Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Party
• Ishwar Dayal Swami or I.D. Swami, former union minister of state of India
• John Dayal, (born 1948), Indian Christian activist and self-proclaimed "Dalit rights" activist
• Lala Deen Dayal (1844–1905), Indian photographer
• Manav Dayal I.C.Sharma, spiritual leader of Manavta Mandir Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India
• Manish Dayal, American film and television actor
• Manjula Dayal, Fijian businesswoman
• Param Dayal or Baba Faqir Chand, (1886–1981), Indian master of Surat Shabd Yoga
• Ram Dayal Munda (1939–2011), Indian scholar and regional music exponent
• Ranjit Singh Dayal or Ranjit Singh Dyal (1928–2012), Indian Army general and an administrator
• Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena (सर्वेश्वरदयाल सक्सेना) (1927–1983), Hindi writer, poet, columnist and playwright
• Shankar Dayal (1969 or 1970–2024), Indian film director
• Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999), the ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997
• Shankar Dayal Singh (1937–1995), contributor to the society and literature, and politician
• Shiv Dayal Batish (1914–2006), Indian musician born in Patiala, India to a Brahmin family
• Shiv Dayal Singh (1818–1878), Sant Mat guru
• Vishwambhar Dayal Tripathi (1899–1959), Indian lawyer and politician
• Shimbhu Dayal,Founder of Ambedkar jayanti in town Jamshedpura of Uttar Pradesh

Diyal name also found in pashtoon saraiki caste.

See also

• Dau Dayal Institute Of Vocational Education, Agra
• Dayal Bagh, Garden of the Merciful Lord
• Dayal Pur, census town in state of Delhi, India
• Dayal Singh College, Lahore, affiliated to University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
• Deen Dayal Upadhyay College of physically handicapped
• Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
• Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College college of the University of Delhi in India
• Kot Dayal Das industrial city in the province of Punjab
• Ram Dayal Joshi or Baidyanath group, pharmaceutical firm specialising in Ayurvedic medicines
• Dadyal
• Diyala (disambiguation)
• Diyale
• Diyallı
• Djali

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