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Denis Goltsov (Денис Александрович Гольцов)
Denis Goltsov (Денис Александрович Гольцов), "The Russian Bogatyr", Russian heavyweight MMA fighter born 1990, 37-9, 2024 PFL Heavyweight World Champion, 2023 PFL finalist, two-time combat sambo world champion.
Denis Gospodarowicz
Denis Gospodarowicz was a cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, whose laboratory named and purified fibroblast growth factor, later linked to tumor angiogenesis.
Denis Healey
Denis Healey, Baron Healey (1917–2015), British Labour politician; Defence Secretary 1964–70 and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974–79 during the 1976 IMF loan; later deputy leader; distinct from John Healey.
Denis Irwin
Denis Irwin, born 1965 in Cork, is a retired Irish full-back who made 529 Manchester United appearances from 1990 to 2002, winning seven Premier League titles and the 1999 Champions League, with 56 Republic of Ireland caps.
Denis J. Pereira Gray
Sir Denis Pereira Gray is a British general practitioner and Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter, known for founding Europe's first university department of general practice.
Denis Jabaudon
Denis Jabaudon is a Swiss neuroscientist and physician, professor at the University of Geneva, who studies the genetic mechanisms that specify cortical neuron identity during brain development.
Denis Jacquemin
Denis Jacquemin, born 1974 in Dinant, Belgium, is a theoretical and quantum chemist, professor at Nantes Université since 2010, known for benchmarking TD-DFT and modeling dye spectra.
Denis Jérôme
Denis Jérôme, born in Paris in 1939, is a French condensed-matter physicist who, with Klaus Bechgaard, discovered superconductivity in an organic compound at Orsay, winning the 1991 Europhysics Prize.
Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson (1949–2017), American poet, novelist, and short story writer, author of Jesus' Son, Tree of Smoke (2007 National Book Award), and Train Dreams; born in Munich, raised abroad, died May 2017.
Denis Kearney
Denis Kearney (c. 1847-1907), Irish-born San Francisco agitator, founded the Workingmen's Party of California in 1877 and led anti-Chinese agitation with the slogan "The Chinese must go!"
Denis Krivoshlykov
Denis Ivanovich Krivoshlykov (Денис Иванович Кривошлыков), Russian handball right wing born 1971 in Moscow; Olympic gold 2000 and bronze 2004 with Russia, world champion 1997, CSKA Moscow and CB Ademar León player.
Denis L. Rousseau
Denis L. Rousseau is a Professor of Biochemistry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, known for time-resolved resonance Raman studies of cytochrome c oxidase and hemoglobin.
Denis Law
Denis Law (1940–2025) was a Scottish footballer and striker who scored 237 goals for Manchester United and won the Ballon d'Or in 1964 as the only Scottish winner.
Denis Lawson
Denis Lawson (Denis Stamper Lawson, born 1947) is a Scottish actor and director from Crieff, known as Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy, Gordon Urquhart in Local Hero, John Jarndyce in Bleak House, and Ewan McGregor's uncle.
Denis Le Bihan
Denis Le Bihan is a French physician and physicist who invented diffusion MRI, used to diagnose acute stroke, and co-invented diffusion tensor imaging of brain connections.
Denis Leary
Denis Leary (born 1957, Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American comedian and actor known for No Cure for Cancer, MTV rants, Rescue Me, Ice Age's Diego, and the Leary Firefighters Foundation.
Denis Lortie
Denis Lortie, Canadian Forces corporal who on 8 May 1984 attacked Quebec's National Assembly (la fusillade de l'Assemblée nationale), killing three and wounding 13; surrendered to Sergeant-at-Arms René Jalbert, sentenced to life, paroled 1996.
Denis Manturov
Denis Manturov is a Russian politician who has served as First Deputy Prime Minister since 2024, having been Minister of Industry and Trade from 2012 to 2024.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough, also Denis Richard McDonough, is an American official who was Obama's 26th White House chief of staff (2013-2017) and the 11th U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2021-2025), its second nonveteran leader.
Denis Monard
Denis Monard (born 1941) is a Swiss cellular and molecular neuroscientist who discovered glia-derived nexin, a protease inhibitor promoting neurite outgrowth, and distinguished it from nerve growth factor while directing the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel.
Denis Mukwege
Denis Mukwege, also known as Denis Mukengere Mukwege, is a Congolese gynecologist who founded Panzi Hospital in Bukavu and shared the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize with Nadia Murad.
Denis Napthine
Denis Napthine, Australian Liberal politician, 47th Premier of Victoria (6 March 2013 to 4 December 2014), Victorian Parliament member 1988 to 2015 for Portland and South West Coast, former Opposition Leader, veterinarian.
Denis Nizhegorodov
Denis Nizhegorodov (Денис Нижегородов), Russian 50 km race walker born 1980 in Saransk; 2011 world champion, 2004 Olympic silver, 2008 bronze, and 50 km best 3:34:14.
Denis O'Brien
Denis O'Brien, born 1958, is an Irish entrepreneur best known for founding Esat Telecom in Ireland and Digicel in the Caribbean, selling Esat to British Telecom in 2000.
Denis O'Hare
Denis O'Hare is an American actor and author known for his Tony win for Take Me Out and for playing Russell Edging on True Blood.
Denis Pankratov
Denis Vladimirovich Pankratov (Денис Панкратов), Russian butterfly swimmer born 1974 in Volgograd; double 1996 Olympic champion (100/200 m fly), 1995 world-record holder whose underwater style prompted the 15-meter rule.
Denis Paré
Denis Paré is a Canadian systems neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University–Newark, known for identifying amygdala intercalated neurons that regulate fear, with implications for PTSD research.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911–1993) was a British surgeon who worked in Uganda, mapped the childhood cancer Burkitt lymphoma across Africa, and later campaigned for dietary fiber.
Denis Pushilin (Денис Владимирович Пушилин)
Denis Vladimirovich Pushilin (Денис Пушилин), born 1981 in Makiivka, is head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic since 2018, formerly an MMM pyramid functionary, DNR parliament speaker, and Minsk negotiator.
Denis R. Hurley
Denis R. Hurley, born 1937, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Eastern District of New York, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991.