- Education.
- the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions.
- an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men.
- the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- Ecclesiastical.
- the head of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
- a priest in the Roman Catholic Church appointed by a bishop to take care of the affairs of a division of a diocese.
- the senior member, in length of service, of any group, organization, profession, etc.: the dean of lexicographers.
- U.S. actor.
- U.S. baseball pitcher.
- a male given name: from the Old English family name meaning “valley.”
- the chief administrative official of a college or university faculty
- (at Oxford and Cambridge universities) a college fellow with responsibility for undergraduate discipline
- the head of a chapter of canons and administrator of a cathedral or collegiate church
- the cardinal bishop senior by consecration and head of the college of cardinals
- a forest in W England, in Gloucestershire, between the Rivers Severn and Wye: formerly a royal hunting ground
- Christopher. See Torvill and Dean
- James (Byron). 1931–55, US film actor, who became a cult figure; his films include East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause (both 1955). He died in a car crash
