Eagan ( EE-gən) is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota. It is south of Saint Paul and lies on the south bank of the Minnesota River, upstream from the confluence later than the Mississippi River. Eagan and the other reachable suburbs form the southern section of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. Eagan’s population was 68,855 at the 2020 census. The city was house to the headquarters of Northwest Airlines (now Delta Air Lines).

Eagan was named for Patrick Eagan, who was the first chairman of the town board of supervisors. He farmed a 220-acre (0.89 km) parcel of land near the present-day town hall. Eagan (born 1811) and his wife Margaret Twohy (born 1816) emigrated from Tipperary, Ireland to Troy, New York, where they married in 1843. They arrived in Mendota circa 1853–54, before settling in the Eagan area.

Eagan was arranged as an Irish cultivation community and “Onion Capital of the United States”. Its largest lump took place after Highway 77 was relocated and expanded and a six-lane bridge (with three northbound and three southbound lanes) was build up over the Minnesota River in 1980 and the complete Interstate 35E freeway section southbound from Minnesota State Highway 110 in Mendota Heights to the Place where it joins 35W in Burnsville was completed in the mid-1980s. Eagan’s northern link up is mostly along Interstate 494. Its southern be next to is nearly a mile south of Cliff Road. Its eastern be neighboring to runs mostly along Minnesota State Highway 3. The western be stifling to runs mostly along the Minnesota River’s south bank.

The city was visited by the “20th hijacker” of the September 11 attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui, before the attacks. Moussaoui attempted to unmovable flight training school, but was ultimately refused bolster by a local resident.