Denise

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 (1939–2025), American actress

Denise Baby, French film editor

Denise Barbacena (born 1994), Filipina actress, singer and comedienne

Denise Batcheff (1906–2000), French film editor and sound technician

Denise Bellon (1902–1999), French photographer

Denise Benoît (1919–1973), French actress and singer

Denise Black (born 1958), English actress

Denise Borino-Quinn (1964–2010), American actress

Denise Bosc (1916–2002), French actress

Denise Boutte (born 1982), American actress and model

Denise Brosseau (1936–1986), Canadian actress

Denise Bryer (1928–2021), British actress

Denise Buckley (born 1945), British actress

Denise Burse (born 1952), American actress

Denise Capezza (born 1989), Italian actress

Denise Clarke, Canadian dancer

Denise LeClair Cobb, American former CNN and CNN Headline News anchor

Denise Coffey (1936–2022), British actress, director and playwright

In music

Denise Belfon (born 1968), Trinidad and Tobago singer and dancer

Denise Bestman (born 2000), American vocalist

Denise Chaila, Irish-Zambian hip-hop singer

Denise Clark-Bradford (born 1953), American gospel singer

Denise Djokic (born 1980), Canadian cellist

Denise Donatelli, American jazz singer

Denise Duval (1921–2016), French soprano

Denise Ho (born 1977), singer from Hong Kong

Denise Jannah (born 1956), Dutch jazz singer

Denise Julia (born 2002), Filipino singer-songwriter

Denise Kelly (born 1954), Irish harpist and composer

Denise LaSalle (1934–2018), American singer

Denise Launay (1906–1993), French organist and musicologist

Denise Lor (1929–2015), American singer

Denise Marsa, singer-songwriter and mentor

Denise Massé (1946–2022), Canadian pianist and vocalist

Denise McCann (born 1948), American-Canadian singer-songwriter

Denise Murray (1964–2020), Canadian female country music singer

Sportspeople

Denise Aiolupotea (born 1998), Samoan rugby union player

Denise Altmann (born 1987), Austrian ice hockey forward

Denise Annetts (born 1964), Australian cricketer

Denise Beckwith (born 1977), Australian Paralympic swimmer

Denise Bender (born 1959), American soccer player

Denise Benning (born 1967), Canadian pair skater

Denise Betsema (born 1993), Dutch cyclist

Denise Biellmann (born 1962), Swiss professional figure skater

Denise Boyd (born 1952), Australian sprinter

Denise Boyer-Merdich (born 1962), American soccer player

Denise Bral, Belgian cyclist

Denise Burton (born 1956), British cyclist

Denise Carriere (born 1970), Canadian softball player

Denise Carter (born 1950), American tennis player

Denise Castle (born 1971), English Muay Thai fighter

Denise Castro (born 2003), Mexican soccer player

Denise Cesky (born 1976), Austrian sailor

Denise Christensen, American diver

Politicians

Denise Allen (1953–2022), Australian politician

Denise Andrews (born 1959), American politician from Massachusetts

Denise Harper Angel (born 1953), American politician

Denise Apt (1929–2014), American politician from Kansas

Denise Bastide (1916–1952), French politician

Denise Batters (born 1970), Canadian politician

Denise Bauer (born 1964), American diplomat

Denise Baum, American politician from Montana

Denise Beaudoin (born 1949), Canadian businessperson

Denise Bellamy, Canadian judge

Denise Bindschedler-Robert (1920–2008), Swiss international lawyer

Denise Brewer (born 1966), American politician

Denise Bronzetti (born 1972), Sammarinese politician

Denise Bucumi-Nkurunziza (born 1969), Burundian ordained minister who was First Lady of Burundi

Denise Cacheux (1932–2023), French politician

Denise Carrier-Perreault (born 1946), Canadian politician

Denise L. Carter, American government official

In other fields

Denise Aberle, American radiologist and oncologist

Denise Affonço (born 1944), Cambodian civil servant

Denise Ajayi-Williams, Nigerian-American businesswoman

Denise Albe-Fessard (1916–2003), French neuroscientist

Denise Mary Allen, Australian Antarctic meteorology observer and forecaster

Denise P. Barlow (1950–2017), British geneticist

Denise Barrett-Baxendale, director of Everton Football Club

Denise Barthomeuf (1934–2004), French chemist

Denise Bennetts (born 1953), British architect

Denise Bernot (1922–2016), French academic

Denise Bidot (born 1986), American plus-size fashion model

Denise Bloch (1916–1945), French espionage agent

Denise Bode, American energy expert

Denise Bombardier (1941–2023), Canadian journalist, essayist, novelist and media personality

Denise Boucher (1935–2025), Canadian writer

Denise Bower, British professor

Denise Bradley (1942–2020), Australian academic

Denise Breitburg, American marine ecologist

Disambiguation

Denise Austin, multiple people

Denise Brown, multiple people

Denise Campbell, multiple people

Denise Johnson, multiple people

Denise Jones, multiple people

Denise Lopez, multiple people

Denise Newman, multiple people

Denise Ramsden, multiple people

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

Fictional characters

Denise, a character in The Muppets who is Kermit the Frog's new significant other

Denise Fox, on the British soap opera EastEnders

Denise Huxtable, on the sitcom The Cosby Show and its spin-off A Different World

Denise (The Big Bang Theory)