List of Famous people named Dennis

Name Dennis is among the most common names in USA, England, Canada. Similar names: Denis, Denise, Denys, Denes, Deniz, Denyse, Deneys, Denisa, Denniz. Here are some famous Dennises:

Dennis Rodman

Dennis Keith Rodman is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "the Worm", he is known for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities. Rodman played for the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Dennis Rader

Dennis Lynn Rader
First Name Dennis
Last Name Rader
Born on March 9, 1945 (age 79)

Dennis Lynn Rader is an American serial killer known as BTK or the BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer. Between 1974 and 1991, Rader killed ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and newspapers describing the details of his crimes. After a decade-long hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea. He is serving ten consecutive life sentences at El Dorado Correctional Facility in Prospect Township, Butler County, Kansas.

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Dennis Nilsen

Dennis Andrew Nilsen
First Name Dennis
Last Name Nilsen
Born on November 23, 1945
Died on May 12, 2018 (aged 72)

Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983 in London, England. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder, Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of twenty-five years. This recommendation was later changed to a whole life tariff. In his later years, Nilsen was imprisoned at Full Sutton maximum security prison.

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Dennis Quaid

First Name Dennis
Last Name Quaid
Born on April 9, 1954 (age 69)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Dennis William Quaid is an American actor known for a wide variety of dramatic and comedic roles. First gaining widespread attention in the 1980s, some of his notable credits include Breaking Away (1979), The Right Stuff (1983), The Big Easy (1986), Innerspace (1987), Great Balls of Fire! (1989), Dragonheart (1996), The Parent Trap (1998), Frequency (2000), Traffic (2000), The Rookie (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Vantage Point (2008), Footloose (2011), Soul Surfer (2011), and The Intruder (2019). For his role in Far from Heaven (2002), he won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor among other accolades. The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

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Dennis Schröder

First Name Dennis
Last Name Schröder
Born on September 15, 1993 (age 30)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Dennis Schröder is a German professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has previously played for SG Braunschweig and Phantoms Braunschweig in Germany, before spending his first five seasons in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks and two years with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

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Dennis Hastert

First Name Dennis
Last Name Hastert
Born on January 2, 1942 (age 82)

John Dennis Hastert is an American former politician and convicted felon who represented Illinois's 14th congressional district from 1987 to 2007 and served as the 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007, the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history. After being convicted of financial crimes related to paying hush money to cover up repeated incidents of child molestation, he became the highest-ranking elected official in U.S. history to have served a prison sentence.

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Dennis Wise

Dennis Frank Wise
First Name Dennis
Last Name Wise
Born on December 16, 1966 (age 57)
Height 168 cm | 5'6

Dennis Frank Wise is an English former professional footballer and manager, who played as a central midfielder. He is best known for having spent the majority of his career at Chelsea, from 1990 to 2001.

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Dennis Hopper

First Name Dennis
Last Name Hopper
Born on May 17, 1936
Died on May 29, 2010 (aged 74)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor and filmmaker. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared alongside James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and Giant (1956). In the next ten years he made a name in television, and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films, notably Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Hang 'Em High (1968). Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s.

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Dennis Hof

First Name Dennis
Last Name Hof
Died on October 16, 2018 (aged 48)

Dennis Leroy Hof was an American brothel owner, television personality, and political candidate. He was best known as the owner of seven legal brothels in Nevada. Several of his brothels are in Moundhouse, Nevada, a few minutes outside Carson City. His best-known brothel is the Moonlite BunnyRanch. Hof wrote an autobiography, The Art of the Pimp. He was elected to the Nevada Assembly less than one month after his death.

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Dennis Franks

First Name Dennis
Last Name Franks
Born on May 29, 1953
Died on October 16, 2021 (aged 68)

Dennis John Franks was an American professional football player in the National Football League (NFL). He was a center and played on special teams for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1976 to 1978 and for the Detroit Lions in 1979. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1972 to 1974. He was the starting center in all 11 games for the 1974 Michigan Wolverines football team that began its season with ten consecutive wins before losing to Ohio State 10–12 in the final game of the season. Franks was selected as a first-team All-Big Ten Conference center in 1974.

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