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Dennis Sciama
Dennis Sciama (1926–1999) was a British cosmologist who defended the steady state model of the Universe, recanted over quasar data, and mentored Stephen Hawking and Martin Rees.
Dennis Scott (basketball)
Dennis Scott, nicknamed 3-D (born 1968), is a former NBA forward drafted 4th overall by Orlando in 1990 who set the single-season three-point record with 267 makes in 1995-96 and starred at Georgia Tech.
Dennis Siver
Dennis Siver (born 1979, Omsk, Russia) is a German retired MMA fighter, first German in the UFC, 23-11-0 1 NC, UFC 12-8-0 1 NC, known for his spinning back kick and wins over Sotiropoulos and B.J. Penn.
Dennis Skinner
Dennis Skinner (born 1932), the Beast of Bolsover, was the Labour MP for Bolsover from 1970 to 2019, a former Derbyshire NUM leader, Labour Party Chair 1988-89, ejected ten times from the Commons, defeated in December 2019.
Dennis Slone
Dennis Slone (1930–1982) was a South African-born physician and drug-safety epidemiologist in Boston who co-founded the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program and the Drug Epidemiology Unit.
Dennis Smith Jr.
Dennis Smith Jr. is an American point guard selected ninth overall by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2017 NBA Draft, earning All-Rookie Second Team honors in 2018.
Dennis Specialist Vehicles
Dennis Specialist Vehicles was an English commercial vehicle maker in Guildford, Surrey, founded as Dennis Bros. in 1901 and known for fire engines and the Dart bus.
Dennis Sullivan
Dennis Sullivan, born 1941, is an American mathematician working in topology and dynamical systems, known for rational homotopy theory and the no-wandering-domain theorem, and winner of the 2022 Abel Prize.
Dennis T. Mangano
Dennis T. Mangano is a physician-scientist in cardiovascular and perioperative medicine, a UCSF professor until 2010 best known for his 1996 NEJM trial of atenolol before noncardiac surgery.
Dennis T. Villareal
Dennis T. Villareal is an American geriatrician at Baylor College of Medicine known for trials showing weight loss plus exercise improves function in obese older adults.
Dennis Taylor
Dennis Taylor, born 1949 in Northern Ireland, is a former professional snooker player who won the 1985 World Championship against Steve Davis and later became a BBC commentator.
Dennis the Menace (1959 TV series)
Dennis the Menace (1959 TV series), aka Just Dennis in the UK: CBS live-action sitcom based on Hank Ketcham's comic strip, airing 1959-1963, 146 episodes, starring child actor Jay North as Dennis Mitchell opposite Joseph Kearns, later Gale Gordon, as Mr. Wilson.
Dennis the Menace (1993 film)
Dennis the Menace is a 1993 American family comedy film directed by Nick Castle, written and produced by John Hughes, starring Mason Gamble and Walter Matthau.
Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics)
Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics) is Hank Ketcham's syndicated newspaper panel, debuted March 12, 1951, about five-and-a-half-year-old Dennis Mitchell; distinct from the unrelated British Beano character of the same name.
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (originally Dennis the Menace) is a long-running British comic strip in The Beano, created by David Law, debuting March 1951; the dog Gnasher joined in 1968, distinct from the coincidental American Dennis the Menace.
Dennis Tipsword
Dennis Tipsword is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 105th district, elected in 2022 after a 30-year career in law enforcement.
Dennis Tito
Dennis Tito is an American engineer and investment manager who became the first paying space tourist, visiting the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz in 2001.
Dennis Trillo
Dennis Trillo (Abelardo Dennis Florencio Ho), Filipino actor born 1981 in Quezon City, GMA Network's Kapuso Drama King since 2003; Mulawin, My Husband's Lover, Maria Clara at Ibarra, Green Bones; multiple MMFF and FAMAS Best Actor awards.
Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent, born 1946 in Prague, is an American paleomagnetist at Lamont-Doherty and Rutgers known for geomagnetic polarity reversals, magnetostratigraphy, and calibrating the geologic time scale.
Dennis v. United States
Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 (1951), Supreme Court case upholding Smith Act convictions of Eugene Dennis and ten Communist Party leaders, applying the gravity-of-evil reformulation of clear and present danger, later limited by Yates and Brandenburg.
Dennis vanEngelsdorp
Dennis vanEngelsdorp is a Dutch-born, Canadian-raised apiarist and entomologist at the University of Maryland who helped characterize colony collapse disorder and founded the Bee Informed Partnership.
Dennis Vitkup
Dennis Vitkup is a computational biologist at Columbia University who studies metabolism, bacterial evolution, the gut microbiome, and the genetics of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disease.
Dennis W. Choi
Dennis W. Choi (born 1953) is an American neurologist and neuroscientist known for work on glutamate excitotoxicity, neuroprotection, and neuronal death after stroke and spinal cord injury.
Dennis W. Dickson
Dennis W. Dickson is an American neuropathologist at Mayo Clinic in Florida who directs its brain bank and co-authored the 2012 guidelines for assessing Alzheimer's disease neuropathology.
Dennis W. Stacey
Dennis W. Stacey, born 1947, is an American cell biologist at the Cleveland Clinic who pioneered microinjection of mRNA and proteins into living cells to study Ras signaling.
Dennis Walks
Dennis Walks, the stage name of Jamaican singer Dennis Vassell, is a reggae vocalist from Kingston best known for "The Drifter" (1969) and "Margaret" (1974), recording across five decades.
Dennis Washington
Dennis R. Washington, born 1934, is a self-made Montana billionaire who built Washington Corporations, a Missoula group spanning mining, railroads, and shipping, and is Montana's richest person.
Dennis Waterman
Dennis Waterman (1948–2022), English actor and singer, starred as George Carter in The Sweeney, Terry McCann in Minder, and Gerry Standing in New Tricks, and sang the Minder theme.
Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver (Billy Dennis Weaver, 1924-2006), American actor, Emmy-winning deputy Chester Goode on Gunsmoke (1955-64) and Marshal Sam McCloud on McCloud (1970-77); also starred in Spielberg's Duel, led the Screen Actors Guild 1973-75, and founded the Institute of Ecolonomics.
Dennis Whitaker
Dennis Whitaker, nicknamed Huckleberry, is a fictional medical student turned first-year resident in HBO Max's The Pitt, played by Gerran Howell; a farm boy from Broken Bow, Nebraska, with a theology degree, he sleeps at the hospital in season 1 and mentors med students in season 2.