Dayna Manning is a Canadian folk and pop singer-songwriter, as well as a producer and sound engineer. As a teenager she released her first album, Volume 1, on EMI and Nettwerk, with featured musicians including Sean Lennon and Melanie Doane. A single from the album reached No. 15 on the MuchMusic top hits chart in Canada, and she was nominated for the 1998 Juno Award for Best New Artist.
Dayna Smith is an American photojournalist. She worked at The Washington Post for 21 years before going freelance. In 1999 she won World Press Photo of the Year. Smith is one of only four women to have won the award since it was first given in 1955.
Dayna Bowen Matthew is an American legal scholar, author, and academic administrator currently serving as dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Her legal scholarship has focused primarily on racial disparities in healthcare and civil rights law.