Denise, with several spelling variations, is a female given name derived from Dionysus is the Greek god of wine.^{[ citation needed ]}

Contents

• Feminine variants
• Masculine variants
• Notable people named Denise
• In television and film
• In music
• Sportspeople
• Politicians
• In other fields
• Deniece
• Denese
• Denyce
• Denyse
• Fictional characters
• See also
• References

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) ^[1]
• 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

Deniece

• 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

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
• Denise, a localized name for Kurama, in the Tagalog dub of YuYu Hakusho (known in the Philippines as Ghost Fighter)
• Denise (The Big Bang Theory)

See also

• Deniz (given name), pronounced similarly in Turkish
• Marie-Denise

References

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