Denise (given name)

Denise 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: 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 examples
In television and film:


 * Denise Alexander (born 1939), American actress
 * 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, and her self-titled show Denise
 * Denise Gough (born 1980), Irish actress
 * Denise Keller (born 1982), Singaporean model and MTV Asia host
 * 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
 * Denyse Tontz (born 1994), American actress, model, and singer
 * 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
 * Denise Marilyn Palacio (born 1976), Belizean Journalist, Television News Writer and News Anchor at PLUSTV BELIZE

In music:


 * Denyce Graves (born 1964), American opera singer
 * Denise Ho (born 1977), singer from Hong Kong
 * Denise Lor (1929–2015), American singer
 * Deniece Williams (born 1951), American singer
 * Denise Pearson (born 1968), English singer-songwriter and lead singer of British pop group Five Star

In sport: In politics:
 * Denise Hannema (born 1990), Dutch cricketer
 * Denyse Julien (born 1960), Canadian badminton player
 * Denise Lewis (born 1972), British heptathlete
 * Denise O'Connor (born 1935), American Olympic fencer
 * Denise Thienes (born 1966), American basketball


 * 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 Woollard (born 1946), Canadian politician

In other fields:
 * Denise Austin (born 1957), American fitness expert
 * Denese Becker (born 1973), Guatemalan refugee
 * 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

Fictional characters:
 * Denise, a secondary character on Monica's Gang
 * Denise, a character in The Muppets who is Kermit the Frog's new significant other
 * Denise Best (née Royle), a fictional character on the British sitcom The Royle Family
 * Denise Fox, a fictional character on the British soap opera EastEnders
 * Denise Hemphill, a fictional character on the satirical black comedy slasher series Scream Queens
 * Denise Huxtable, fictional character 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