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Denial of the virgin birth of Jesus

Denial of the virgin birth of Jesus is the position that Jesus was not conceived without a human father, held by early Ebionites, polemicists like Celsus, and some modern theologians.

Denial-of-service attack

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is an attack that prevents a machine from doing useful work by exhausting a resource; when launched from many compromised hosts at once, it is called a distributed (DDoS) attack.

Denials (The White Lotus)

Denials is the sixth episode of The White Lotus season 3 (HBO, aired March 23, 2025), written and directed by Mike White. It follows the Thai resort guests the morning after the Full Moon Party: Tim Ratliff's hallucinations and hidden gun, Saxon's realization about Lochlan, and Laurie's rift with Jaclyn.

Denianke Kingdom

The Denianke Kingdom, also written Denyanke, was a Fula-ruled kingdom of the middle Senegal River valley in northern Senegal, overthrown in 1776 by the Imamate of Fuuta Tooro.

Denice Denton

Denice Denton was an American electrical engineer and UC Santa Cruz chancellor from 2005 until her death in 2006, the first openly gay chancellor in the UC system.

Deniece Williams

Deniece Williams (June Deniece Chandler), American soul and gospel singer from Gary, Indiana; four-octave soprano, Wonderlove alumna, number one hits "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" and "Let's Hear It for the Boy," four Grammy wins.

Denikaina Ready (దేనికైనా రెడీ)

Denikaina Ready (దేనికైనా రెడీ), also Dhenikaina Ready, is a 2012 Telugu comedy-drama directed by G. Nageswara Reddy, produced by Mohan Babu, starring Vishnu Manchu and Hansika Motwani; a remake of Udayapuram Sulthan, notable for its Brahmin-community controversy and High Court scene-deletion order.

Denim

Denim, a warp-faced cotton twill with indigo warp and white weft, from serge de Nîmes; distinguished from plain-weave chambray by weight (10-16 oz), fading, and its use in riveted jeans.

DENIS

DENIS (DEep Near-Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky) was a European astronomical survey that imaged the southern sky in one optical and two near-infrared bands from La Silla, Chile.

Denis A. Cortese

Denis A. Cortese is an American physician in pulmonary and critical-care medicine who served as President and CEO of the Mayo Clinic from 2002 to 2009.

Denis A. Evans

Denis A. Evans is an American physician-scientist in geriatric epidemiology who spent 27 years at Rush University Medical Center, founding the Chicago Health and Aging Project.

Denis Ablyazin

Denis Ablyazin (Денис Михайлович Аблязин), born 1992 in Penza, is a Russian artistic gymnast with seven Olympic medals (1 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze) across 2012-2020, three straight Olympic vault silvers, world floor gold 2014, and world team titles 2019 and 2021.

Denis Auguste Affre

Denis Auguste Affre was a French priest who served as Archbishop of Paris from 1840 until he was mortally wounded on the barricades in June 1848.

Denis Barrier

Denis Barrier is a French venture capitalist, cofounder and CEO of Cathay Innovation, a global venture firm launched in Paris in 2015, best known for backing the digital bank Chime.

Denis Bartolo

Denis Bartolo is a French physicist and professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, known for pioneering experimental and theoretical work on active matter.

Denis Bećirović

Denis Bećirović is a Bosnian politician who has been the Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2022 and Chairman of the Presidency since 2026.

Denis Bouanga

Denis Bouanga (born 1994, Le Mans, France) is a Gabonese forward for LAFC and Gabon; 2023 MLS Golden Boot winner, LAFC's all-time leading scorer, and first MLS player with 20+ goals in three straight seasons.

Denis C. Guttridge

Denis C. Guttridge is an American cancer biologist who studies NF-κB signaling in muscle wasting, and a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Denis Cheryshev (Денис Дмитриевич Черышев)

Denis Cheryshev (Денис Дмитриевич Черышев), born 1990 in Nizhny Novgorod, is a Russian left winger, Real Madrid academy product, and 2018 World Cup breakout with four goals, later at Valencia, Venezia, Panionios, and Krasava ENY.

Denis Cyplenkov

Denis Cyplenkov (Денис Цыпленков, born 1982, Kryvyi Rih) is a Russian arm wrestler nicknamed the Russian Hulk; Nemiroff and A1 champion, 6-0 supermatch wins over Larratt (left, 2018) and Brzenk (right, 2023).

Denis Daly

Denis St. George Daly (1862-1942), Irish polo player, won gold for the Foxhunters Hurlingham team at the 1900 Paris Olympics; son of Lord Dunsandle, 18th Hussars officer, later Master of the Heythrop.

Denis Davydov

Denis Davydov (Денис Васильевич Давыдов), 1784 to 1839, was a Russian lieutenant-general, poet, and military writer best known for initiating and leading the army partisan movement against Napoleon's Grand Army in 1812.

Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (1713–1784) was a French writer, philosopher, and encyclopedist who edited the Encyclopédie from 1747 to 1772 and led the Enlightenment in France with Voltaire.

Denis du Moulin

Denis du Moulin, also recorded as Pierre-Denis du Moulin, was a French churchman who served as archbishop of Toulouse and then bishop of Paris, dying in 1447.

Denis Duboule

Denis Duboule, born in Geneva in 1955, is a French-Swiss developmental geneticist known for his work on Hox genes, which pattern the vertebrate body and limbs.

Denis Dutton

Denis Dutton (1944–2010) was a philosopher at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, founder of Arts & Letters Daily and author of The Art Instinct, a Darwinian theory of art.

Denis E. O’Donnell

Denis E. O'Donnell is a Canadian respirologist and Professor of Medicine (Emeritus) at Queen's University who founded the Respiratory Investigation Unit and studies breathlessness and exercise limitation in COPD.

Denis Fonvizin

Denis Fonvizin (Денис Иванович Фонвизин) was a Russian playwright, translator, and political essayist of the Catherine era, best known for the 1782 comedy The Minor.

Denis Gargaud Chanut

Denis Gargaud Chanut, French canoe slalom paddler (also Denis Benoît Gargaud Chanut), born 1987 in Apt, Olympic C1 gold at Rio 2016, 2011 world champion, 2021 European champion, retired April 2025.

Denis Garrett

Stephen Denis (Denis) Garrett, 1906–1989, British mycologist and plant pathologist at Cambridge; founded soilborne root disease research through take-all of wheat studies, authored Root Disease Fungi, chaired the 1968 First International Congress of Plant Pathology, FRS 1967.