List of Famous people named Denys

Denys George Finch Hatton was an English aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen Blixen, a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her autobiographical book Out of Africa, first published in 1937. In the book, his name is hyphenated: "Finch-Hatton".

Denys Anatoliyovych Shmyhal is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. Since 4 March 2020, Shmyhal has been serving as the country’s Prime Minister, in charge of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Ukraine.

Denys Barvinko was a Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a left-back for FC Metalist Kharkiv in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Denys Oleksandrovych Boyko is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Dynamo Kyiv.

Denys Berinchyk is a Ukrainian professional boxer. As an amateur, he won silver medals in the light-welterweight division at the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Georges-Henri Denys Arcand is a French Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three further times, including two nominations in the same category for The Decline of the American Empire in 1986 and Jesus of Montreal in 1989, becoming the only French-Canadian director in history whose films have received this number of nominations and, subsequently, to have a film win the award. Also for The Barbarian Invasions, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, losing to Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation.

Denys Oliynyk is a Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for SJK Seinäjoki.

Denys Granier-Deferre is a French film director.

Denys de La Patellière was a French film director and scriptwriter. He also directed Television series.