Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A dean is a name commonly given someone with a senior role in an institution. In a university, a dean is often the head of a division, faculty, college, or school. In a school, a dean may have a counselling role and enforce discipline. In the Roman Catholic Church, a dean is responsible for a number of parishes within his diocese. In geography, Dean is a common place name, meaning 'valley'. Dean, Cumbria Dean, Devon Dean, Dorset Dean, Hampshire Dean, Oxfordshire Dean, Somerset Dean Prior, Devon Dean Row, Greater Manchester Deane, Greater Manchester Deane, Hampshire East Dean, East Sussex East Dean, Hampshire East Dean, West Sussex Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire Hedgerley & Dean, Buckinghamshire Lower Dean, Bedfordshire Upper Dean, Bedfordshire West Dean, Hampshire West Dean, West Sussex This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix the link, so that it points to the appropriate page. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.