Denise (given name)
Denise, with several spelling variations, is a female given name derived from Dionysus is the Greek god of wine.
Feminine variants
- Deneece, Denice, Deniece, Denyse: English
- Denisa: Czech, Romanian, Russian, Slovak
- Denise: English, French, Portuguese
- Denisse: English, French
- Deniz: Turkish
- Dennet, Denote, Deonisia, Deonysia: [Middle English language|English language|Middle English]
- Dinisia: Portuguese
- Dionycia, Dionis: Middle English
- Dionise: [Old French language|French language|Old French]
- Dionísia: Portuguese
- Dionisia: Middle English, Italian, Spanish
- Dionizja: Polish
- Dionysia: Greek, Latin, Middle English
- Diot, Diota, Dye, Dyonese, Dyonisia, Dyonisya, Dyot, Dyota: Middle English
Masculine variants
- Dénes: Hungarian
- Denis: English, French, German, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Czech, Russian, Serbo-Croatian
- Denijs: Middle Dutch
- Deniz: Turkish language
- Dêniz: Portuguese
- Dennis: English, Dutch, German, Norwegian
- Denny: English
- Denys : Ukrainian
- Dinis, Diniz, Dionísio: Portuguese
- Dion: English, French, Greek
- Dionigi: Italian
- Dionise: Romanian
- Dionisije : Serbian
- Dionisio: Italian, Spanish
- Dionisos : Armenian
- Dionizy: Polish
- Dionysios : Greek
- Dionýz: Slovak
- Dénes: Hungarian
- Donnchadh: Irish
- Dzianis : Belarusian
- Genis : Udmurt
Notable people named Denise
In television and film
- Denise Alexander, American actress
- Denise Barbacena, Filipina actress, singer and comedienne
- Denise Coffey, British actress, director and playwright
- Denise Crosby, American actress
- Denise Dowse, American actress and director
- Denise Drysdale, Australian television personality and comedian
- Denise Gough, Irish actress
- Denise Joaquin, Filipina actress
- Denise Keller, Singaporean model and MTV Asia host
- Denise Laurel, Filipina actress and singer
- Denise Nickerson, American actress
- Denise Richards, American actress
- Denise Schindler, German Paralympic cyclist
- Denise Stapley, American television personality and sex therapist
- Denise Camillia Tan, Malaysian-based Singaporean actress
- Denise van Outen, English actress, singer and TV presenter
- Denise Welch, English actress and television presenter
- Denise Nicholas, American actress, author, and activist
In music
- Denise Ho, singer from Hong Kong
- Denise Lor, American singer
- Denise Pearson, English singer-songwriter and lead singer of British pop group Five Star
Sportspeople
- Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer
- Denise Lewis, British heptathlete
- Denise O'Connor, American Olympic fencer
Politicians
- Denise Allen, Australian politician
- Denise Andrews, American politician from Massachusetts
- Denise Apt, American politician from Kansas
- Denise Bastide, French politician
- Denise Batters, Canadian politician
- Denise Baum, American politician from Montana
- Denise Bucumi-Nkurunziza, Burundian ordained minister who was First Lady of Burundi
- Denise Brewer, American politician from Oklahoma
- Denise Bronzetti, Sammarinese politician
- Denise Cacheux, French politician
- Denise Campbell, American politician from West Virginia
- Denise Daley, Jamaican politician
- Denise Dittrich, American politician from Minnesota
- Denise Driehaus, American politician from Ohio
- Denise Everhart, American politician from Kansas
- Denise Frossard, Brazilian politician
- Denise Garner, American politician from Arkansas
- Denise George, U.S. Virgin Islands politician
- Denise Harlow, American politician from Maine
- Denise Leblanc-Bantey, Canadian politician
- Denise Lee, New Zealand politician
- Denise Loop, German politician
- Denise Majette, American politician from Georgia
- Denise Mentzer, American politician from Michigan
- Denise Merrill, American politician from Connecticut
- Denise Mitchell, Irish politician
- Denise Moreno Ducheny, American politician
- Denise Phua, Singaporean politician
- Denise Poirier-Rivard, Canadian politician
- Denise Provost, American politician from Massachusetts
- Denise Robinson, South African politician
- Denise Roche, New Zealand politician
- Denise Savoie, Canadian politician
- Denise Sinankwa, Burundian politician
- Denise Trudel, Canadian politician
- Denise Villalobos, American politician
- Denise Woollard, Canadian politician
In other fields
- Denise Austin, American fitness expert
- Denise Domenach-Lallich, French resistance member
- Denise Levertov, American poet
- Denise Pumain, French geographer
- Denise Quiñones, Miss Universe 2001 from Puerto Rico
- Denise Weston Austin, Northern Irish zookeeper
- Denise K. James, writer and philosopher
Deneice
- Deniece Williams, American singer
Denese
- Denese Becker, Guatemalan survivor of the Rio Negro massacre
- Denese Oates, Australian sculptor
Denyce
- Denyce Graves, American opera singer
- Denyce Lawton, American actress and model
Denyse
*Fictional characters
- Denise, a secondary character on Monica's Gang
- Denise, Phoebe Buffay's roommate in NBC sitcom Friends
- Denise, a character in The Muppets who is Kermit the Frog's new significant other
- Denise Best, on the British sitcom The Royle Family
- Denise Fox, on the British soap opera EastEnders
- Denise Hemphill, on the satirical black comedy slasher series Scream Queens
- Denise Huxtable, on the sitcom The Cosby Show and its spin-off A Different World
- Denise Prime, French name for Dilys Price, fictional character on the animated series Fireman Sam
- Denise, a localized name for Kurama, in the Tagalog dub of YuYu Hakusho
- Denise (The Big Bang Theory)
Nickname
- Andrée Borrel, French heroine of World War II, with SOE F codename ''Denise''