Denise, with several spelling variations, is a female given name. Dionysus is the Greek god of wine, and the name Denise means "to be devoted to Bacchus."^[1][2]

• 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)^[3]
• 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

• 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

• Denise Alexander (born 1939), American actress
• Denise Barbacena (born 1994), Filipina actress, singer and comedienne
• Denise Coffey (1936–2022), British actress, director and playwright
• Denise Crosby (born 1957), American actress
• Denise Dowse (1958–2022), American actress and director
• Denise Drysdale (born 1948), Australian television personality and comedian
• Denise Gough (born 1980), Irish actress
• Denise Joaquin, Filipina actress
• Denise Keller (born 1982), Singaporean model and MTV Asia host
• Denise Laurel (born 1987), Filipina actress and singer
• Denise Nickerson (1957–2019), American actress
• Denise Richards (born 1971), American actress
• Denise Schindler (born 1985), German Paralympic cyclist
• Denise Stapley (born 1971), American television personality and sex therapist
• Denise Camillia Tan (born 1992), Malaysian-based Singaporean actress
• Denise van Outen (born 1974), English actress, singer and TV presenter
• Denise Welch (born 1958), English actress and television presenter
• Denise Nicholas (born 1944), American actress, author, and activist

• Denise Ho (born 1977), singer from Hong Kong
• Denise Lor (1929–2015), American singer
• Denise Pearson (born 1968), English singer-songwriter and lead singer of British pop group Five Star

• Denise Hannema (born 1990), Dutch cricketer
• Denise Lewis (born 1972), British heptathlete
• Denise O'Connor (born 1935), American Olympic fencer

• Denise Allen (1953–2022), Australian politician
• Denise Andrews (born 1959), American politician from Massachusetts
• Denise Apt (1929–2014), American politician from Kansas
• Denise Bastide (1916–1952), French politician
• Denise Batters (born 1970), Canadian politician
• Denise Baum, American politician from Montana
• Denise Bucumi-Nkurunziza (born 1969), Burundian ordained minister who was First Lady of Burundi
• Denise Brewer (born 1966), American politician from Oklahoma
• Denise Bronzetti (born 1972), Sammarinese politician
• Denise Campbell (born 1964), American politician from West Virginia
• Denise Daley, Jamaican politician
• Denise Dittrich (born 1957), American politician from Minnesota
• Denise Driehaus (born 1963), American politician from Ohio
• Denise Everhart (born 1954), American politician from Kansas
• Denise Frossard (born 1950), Brazilian politician
• Denise Garner (born 1956), American politician from Arkansas
• Denise George, U.S. Virgin Islands politician
• Denise Harlow, American politician from Maine
• Denise Leblanc-Bantey, Canadian politician
• Denise Lee (born 1970), New Zealand politician
• Denise Loop (born 1994), German politician
• Denise Majette (born 1955), American politician from Georgia
• Denise Mentzer, American politician from Michigan
• Denise Merrill (born 1948), American politician from Connecticut
• Denise Mitchell (born 1976), Irish politician
• Denise Moreno Ducheny (born 1952), American politician
• Denise Phua (born 1959), Singaporean politician
• Denise Poirier-Rivard (born 1941), Canadian politician
• Denise Provost (born 1951), American politician from Massachusetts
• Denise Robinson, South African politician
• Denise Roche (born 1963), New Zealand politician
• Denise Savoie (born 1943), Canadian politician
• Denise Trudel (born 1955), Canadian politician
• Denise Woollard (born 1946), Canadian politician

• Denise Austin (born 1957), American fitness expert
• Denise Domenach-Lallich (1924–2020), French resistance member
• Denise Levertov (1923–1977), American poet
• Denise Pumain (born 1946), French geographer
• Denise Quiñones (born 1980), Miss Universe 2001 from Puerto Rico
• Denise Weston Austin (1925–1997), Northern Irish zookeeper

• Deniece Williams (born 1951), American singer

• Denese Becker (born 1937), Guatemalan survivor of the Rio Negro massacre
• Denese Oates (born 1955), Australian sculptor

• Denyce Graves (born 1964), American opera singer
• Denyce Lawton (born 1978), American actress and model

• Further information: Denyse

• Denise, a secondary character on Monica's Gang
• Denise, Phoebe Buffay's roommate in NBC sitcom Friends
• Denise, a character in The Muppets who is Kermit the Frog's new significant other
• Denise Best (née Royle), on the British sitcom The Royle Family
• Denise Fox, on the British soap opera EastEnders
• Denise Hemphill, on the satirical black comedy slasher series Scream Queens
• Denise Huxtable, on the sitcom The Cosby Show and its spin-off A Different World
• Denise Prime, French name for Dilys Price, fictional character on the animated series Fireman Sam

• Andrée Borrel (1919–1944), French heroine of World War II, with SOE F codename Denise

• Dennis
• Deniz (given name), pronounced similarly in Turkish
• Marie-Denise