# Denise (given name)

Denise, with several spelling variations, is a female given name. Dionysus is the Greek god of wine, and the name Denise means "to be devoted to Bacchus."

## 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
* Dinisia: Portuguese
* Dionycia, Dionis: Middle English
* Dionise: Old French (on St. Denise's burial site)
* Dionísia: Portuguese
* Dionisia: Middle English, Italian, Spanish
* Dionizja: Polish
* Dionysia: Greek (Διονυσία), 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 (Денис), Serbo-Croatian (also Денис)
* Denijs: Middle Dutch
* Deniz: Turkish language
* Dêniz: Portuguese (Brazilian)
* Dennis: English, Dutch, German, Norwegian
* Denny: English
* Denys (Денис): Ukrainian
* Dinis, Diniz, Dionísio: Portuguese
* Dion: English, French (medieval diminutive), Greek (diminutive: Δίων)
* Dionigi: Italian
* Dionise: Romanian
* Dionisije (Дионисије): Serbian
* Dionisio: Italian, Spanish
* Dionisos (Դիոնիսոս): Armenian
* Dionizy: Polish
* Dionysios (Διονύσιος): Greek
* Dionýz: Slovak
* Dénes: Hungarian
* Donnchadh: Irish
* Dzianis (Дзяніс): Belarusian
* Genis (Генис): Udmurt

## Notable people named Denise
### In television and film

* Denise Alexander (born 1939), American actress
* Denise Barbacena (born 1994), Filipina actress, singer and comedienne
* Denise Coffey (1936–2022), British actress, director and playwright
* Denise Crosby (born 1957), American actress
* Denise Dowse (1958–2022), American actress and director
* Denise Drysdale (born 1948), Australian television personality and comedian
* Denise Gough (born 1980), Irish actress
* Denise Joaquin, Filipina actress
* Denise Keller (born 1982), Singaporean model and MTV Asia host
* Denise Laurel (born 1987), Filipina actress and singer
* Denise Nickerson (1957–2019), American actress
* Denise Richards (born 1971), American actress
* Denise Schindler (born 1985), German Paralympic cyclist
* Denise Stapley (born 1971), American television personality and sex therapist
* Denise Camillia Tan (born 1992), Malaysian-based Singaporean actress
* Denise van Outen (born 1974), English actress, singer and TV presenter
* Denise Welch (born 1958), English actress and television presenter
* Denise Nicholas (born 1944), American actress, author, and activist

### In music

* Denise Ho (born 1977), singer from Hong Kong
* Denise Lor (1929–2015), American singer
* Denise Pearson (born 1968), English singer-songwriter and lead singer of British pop group Five Star

### Sportspeople

* Denise Hannema (born 1990), Dutch cricketer
* Denise Lewis (born 1972), British heptathlete
* Denise O'Connor (born 1935), American Olympic fencer

### Politicians

* Denise Allen (1953–2022), Australian politician
* Denise Andrews (born 1959), American politician from Massachusetts
* Denise Apt (1929–2014), American politician from Kansas
* Denise Bastide (1916–1952), French politician
* Denise Batters (born 1970), Canadian politician
* Denise Baum, American politician from Montana
* Denise Bucumi-Nkurunziza (born 1969), Burundian ordained minister who was First Lady of Burundi
* Denise Brewer (born 1966), American politician from Oklahoma
* Denise Bronzetti (born 1972), Sammarinese politician
* Denise Campbell (born 1964), American politician from West Virginia
* Denise Daley, Jamaican politician
* Denise Dittrich (born 1957), American politician from Minnesota
* Denise Driehaus (born 1963), American politician from Ohio
* Denise Everhart (born 1954), American politician from Kansas
* Denise Frossard (born 1950), Brazilian politician
* Denise Garner (born 1956), American politician from Arkansas
* Denise George, U.S. Virgin Islands politician
* Denise Harlow, American politician from Maine
* Denise Leblanc-Bantey, Canadian politician
* Denise Lee (born 1970), New Zealand politician
* Denise Loop (born 1994), German politician
* Denise Majette (born 1955), American politician from Georgia
* Denise Mentzer, American politician from Michigan
* Denise Merrill (born 1948), American politician from Connecticut
* Denise Mitchell (born 1976), Irish politician
* Denise Moreno Ducheny (born 1952), American politician
* Denise Phua (born 1959), Singaporean politician
* Denise Poirier-Rivard (born 1941), Canadian politician
* Denise Provost (born 1951), American politician from Massachusetts
* Denise Robinson, South African politician
* Denise Roche (born 1963), New Zealand politician
* Denise Savoie (born 1943), Canadian politician
* Denise Trudel (born 1955), Canadian politician
* Denise Villalobos, American politician
* Denise Woollard (born 1946), Canadian politician

### In other fields

* Denise Austin (born 1957), American fitness expert
* Denise Domenach-Lallich (1924–2020), French resistance member
* Denise Levertov (1923–1977), American poet
* Denise Pumain (born 1946), French geographer
* Denise Quiñones (born 1980), Miss Universe 2001 from Puerto Rico
* Denise Weston Austin (1925–1997), Northern Irish zookeeper

## Deneice

* Deniece Williams (born 1951), American singer

## Denese

* Denese Becker (born 1937), Guatemalan survivor of the Rio Negro massacre
* Denese Oates (born 1955), Australian sculptor

## Denyce

* Denyce Graves (born 1964), American opera singer
* Denyce Lawton (born 1978), American actress and model

## Denyse

* Further information: 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 (née Royle), 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

## Nickname

* Andrée Borrel (1919–1944), French heroine of World War II, with SOE F codename Denise