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Dennis Wilson
Dennis Carl Wilson (1944–1983), founding drummer, singer, and songwriter of the Beach Boys, the only member who actually surfed; released the first Beach Boy solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue (1977), and drowned at Marina Del Rey aged 39.
Dennis Wise
Dennis Frank Wise, English midfielder born 1966 in Kensington, London; Wimbledon 1988 FA Cup winner, Chelsea captain 1990-2001 (445 apps, five trophies 1997-2000), 21 England caps, later Millwall, Swindon, and Leeds manager.
Dennis Wolf (Деннис Вольф)
Dennis Wolf (Деннис Вольф), born 1978 in the Soviet Union, is a retired German IFBB Men's Open bodybuilder who won the 2014 Arnold Classic and placed third at the 2013 Mr. Olympia.
Dennis Y. Loh
Dennis Y. Loh is an American immunologist who used transgenic mice to show how the thymus selects T cells, as an HHMI investigator at Washington University.
Dennis Zaritsky
Dennis Zaritsky is an observational astronomer and Regents Professor at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, known for work on dark matter and satellite galaxies.
Dennitsa Dorsa
Dennitsa Dorsa is an 872-km ridge system (dorsa) in Venus's north polar region near 85.6N, 205.9E, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the Slavic goddess of day and light.
Dennō Senshi Porygon (でんのうせんしポリゴン)
Dennō Senshi Porygon (でんのうせんしポリゴン), also translated Electric Soldier Porygon, is Pokémon anime episode 38, aired once on TV Tokyo December 16, 1997; its 12 Hz red-blue flashing caused the Pokémon Shock, hospitalizing 685 viewers and prompting broadcast guidelines.
Denny Chin
Denny Chin, born 1954 in Kowloon, Hong Kong, is a federal judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Obama in 2010.
Denny Doherty
Denny Doherty (Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty, 1940–2007), Canadian singer-songwriter from Halifax and male lead of The Mamas & the Papas, sang lead on California Dreamin' and Monday, Monday.
Denny Hamlin
Denny Hamlin, American NASCAR Cup Series driver of the No. 11 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing and co-owner of 23XI Racing with Michael Jordan; three-time Daytona 500 winner, 60+ Cup wins, record 19 playoff appearances, no Cup championship, retiring after 2027.
Denny Heck
Denny Heck is an American Democratic politician serving as Lieutenant Governor of Washington, first elected in 2020, who previously represented Washington's 10th Congressional District in the House from 2013 to 2021.
Denny Hulme
Denny Hulme (Denis Clive Hulme, 1936–1992), New Zealand racing driver, the only Kiwi Formula One world champion (1967, Brabham); later McLaren F1 driver and two-time Can-Am champion; died of a heart attack at the 1992 Bathurst 1000.
Denny Laine
Denny Laine (Brian Hines, 1944-2023), English singer-guitarist: founding Moody Blues lead singer on "Go Now" and the only Wings member besides Paul and Linda McCartney, 1971-1981; two Grammys, co-wrote "Mull of Kintyre".
Denny McLain
Denny McLain (Dennis Dale McLain), Detroit Tigers pitcher, last MLB 30-game winner (31-6, 1968), 1968 AL Cy Young and MVP, back-to-back Cy Youngs, later suspended for gambling and imprisoned.
Denny Miller
Denny Miller (Dennis Linn Miller, 1934-2014), American actor, first blond Tarzan in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), Duke Shannon on Wagon Train 1961-64, Gorton's Fisherman, died of ALS in Las Vegas.
Denny Morrison
Denny Morrison (born 1985, Chetwynd, BC) is a Canadian retired long track speed skater, four-time Olympian with four medals including 2010 team pursuit gold, 1500m world record holder in 2008, and stroke survivor who returned to race at PyeongChang 2018.
Denny S. Parker
Denny S. Parker is an American environmental engineer who spent about 45 years at Brown and Caldwell and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
Denny's
Denny's is an American family-dining restaurant chain known for breakfast served around the clock, founded in 1953 and taken private in a $620 million deal in 2026.
Deno
Deno is a JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime with secure defaults, created by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl; version 2.0, released in October 2024, added Node.js and npm compatibility.
Denodo
Denodo Technologies, founded 1999 by Ángel Viña in A Coruña, Spain, and headquartered in Palo Alto, is a private data management vendor whose Denodo Platform delivers data virtualization and logical data management, integrating 200+ sources without replication; TPG Growth invested $336 million in 2023.
Denoising autoencoder
A denoising autoencoder (DAE) is an autoencoder trained to reconstruct clean data from corrupted input, introduced by Vincent, Larochelle, Bengio, and Manzagol at ICML 2008.
Denoising diffusion implicit models (DDIM)
Denoising diffusion implicit models (DDIM) are a deterministic, non-Markovian sampler for diffusion models introduced by Jiaming Song, Chenlin Meng, and Stefano Ermon in October 2020.
Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM)
A denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) is a generative model that learns to reverse a gradual noising process, introduced in 2015 and made practical by a 2020 paper.
Denominational education in Ireland
Denominational education in Ireland is the organization of schooling in both Northern Ireland and the Republic along religious lines, with most publicly funded schools church-owned or managed.
Denominazione di origine controllata
Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC), with DOCG and IGT, is Italy's wine designation-of-origin system created by DPR 930 in 1963; DOC and DOCG mark EU PDO wines under a disciplinare, DOCG adding batch tasting and a numbered state seal.
Denon
Denon, also known as Kabushiki Kaisha Denon, is a Japanese audio brand founded in 1910, known for hi-fi components, AV receivers, headphones, turntables, and early digital audio firsts.
Denormalization
Denormalization is the deliberate addition of duplicated or precomputed data to a database design to speed up reads and avoid costly joins, common in data warehouses and NoSQL systems.
Denosumab
Denosumab (Prolia, Xgeva) is a human IgG2 monoclonal antibody against RANKL that inhibits osteoclasts; FDA-approved 2010 for osteoporosis and bone metastases, with a 2024 boxed warning for severe hypocalcemia in advanced kidney disease.
Denotational semantics
Denotational semantics, also known as the Scott-Strachey approach, is a formal method assigning each programming language phrase a mathematical meaning, built compositionally from its parts using domain theory.
Denpasar
Denpasar (Kota Denpasar) is the capital and largest city of Bali, Indonesia, provincial capital since 1958, population about 769,000 projected for 2026, site of the 1906 Puputan Badung, Bali Museum, and Bajra Sandhi Monument.