Haiyan may refer to: Places Haiyan, Guangdong (), a town in Guangdong Haiyan County, Qinghai (), a county of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Haiyan County, Zhejiang (), a county of Jiaxing, Zhejiang People with the given name Haiyan (, a feminine given name of Chinese origin: Qian Haiyan (; 1955–2013), Chinese female United Nations Civil Servant Xu Haiyan (; born 1984), Chinese female free style wrestler Ye Haiyan (; born 1975), female Chinese human rights activist Zhou Haiyan (; born 1990), Chinese female middle-distance runner Other masculine given names with the same pronunciation but different Chinese characters: Hu Haiyan (; born 1956), male Chinese academic and president of Beijing Institute of Technology Ma Haiyan (; 1837–1900), Chinese male Muslim General of the Qing Dynasty Other uses Typhoon Haiyan (disambiguation), the name of several tropical storms in the Pacific Ocean Typhoon Haiyan, an extremely powerful 2013 tropical cyclone in the Philippines