List of Famous people named Dai

Dai Satō is a Japanese screenwriter and musician.

Dai Bingguo is a Chinese politician and professional diplomat. Since 2008, Dai has emerged as one of the foremost and highest-ranking figures of Chinese foreign policy in the Hu Jintao administration.

Dai Houying was a Chinese woman novelist. Her best known work Stones in the Wall (人啊人) which tells the story of intellectuals named Zhao Zhenhuan, Sun Yue and He Jingfu in the Cultural Revolution, an event Dai experienced from the perspective of the persecutor, as a red guard. In 1971 she divorced her Red Guard husband and married the poet Wen Jie ([闻捷).

Dai Xu is a Chinese author, social commentator, and the president of Marine Institute For Security And Cooperation (海洋安全与合作研究院). He is also a professor at the PLA National Defense University. He holds the rank of Senior Colonel in the People's Liberation Army Air Force, he is a supporter of communist orthodoxy and has expressed strong nationalist sentiments.