Taine may refer to: Given name Taine Basham (born 1999), Welsh rugby player Taine Murray (born 2002), New Zealand basketball player Taine Paton (born 1989), South African field hockey player Taine Pechet, American thoracic surgeon Taine Plumtree (born 2000), Welsh born New Zealand rugby player Taine Randell (born 1974), New Zealand rugby player Taine Robinson (born 1999), New Zealand rugby player Surname Christophe Taine (born 1973), French footballer Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French critic and historian John Taine, pen name of Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960), Scottish novelist Fiction Charles Foster Taine, fictional character in the DC Comics universe Hiram Taine, fictional protagonist in the 1958 novel The Big Front Yard by Clifford Simak Roger Taine, fictional protagonist of the novels A Rough Shoot and A Time to Kill by Geoffrey Household Sydney Taine, fictional character in the Nightside comic series of Robert Weinberg See also Antaine Tain (disambiguation) Tana (disambiguation) Toine