Denny
Encyclopedia
People
- Denny (surname)Denny (surname)Denny is a surname, and may refer to:*Anthony Denny, advisor to Henry VIII of England*Arthur A. Denny in the Denny Party, Seattle-area settler*David Denny, Seattle founder*Bob Denny, American robotic telescopes software developer...
- Denny CrumDenny CrumDenzil E. "Denny" Crum is a former American men's college basketball coach at the University of Louisville from 1971 to 2001, compiling a 675–295 record. He guided the Cardinals to two NCAA championships and six Final Fours...
(born 1937), former American college men's basketball coach - Denny DohertyDenny DohertyDennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canadian singer and songwriter. He was most widely known as a founding member of the 1960s musical group The Mamas & the Papas.-Early career:...
(1940-2007), Canadian musician; former member of the folk group The Mamas & the Papas - Dennis DoudsDennis DoudsDennis "Denny" Douds is an American football coach and former player. He has been a football coach at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania since 1966 and the head football coach there since 1974. With 230 career coaching wins, he ranks 11th in wins among all active college football...
(born 1941), American football coach - Denny HamlinDenny HamlinJames Dennis Alan "Denny" Hamlin is an American race car driver. Though originally born in Tampa, Florida, Hamlin was raised for most of his life in Chesterfield, Virginia. After racing in go-karts for a number of years, he worked his way up to Late Models by 2004 and signed a development contract...
(born 1980), American NASCAR auto racer - Dennis HastertDennis HastertJohn Dennis "Denny" Hastert was the 59th Speaker of the House serving from 1999 to 2007. He represented as a Republican for twenty years, 1987 to 2007.He is the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history...
(born 1942), American politician and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives - Denny HockingDenny HockingDennis Lee "Denny" Hocking is a former Major League Baseball utility player. After playing at El Camino College in California, he was drafted in the 52nd round of the 1989 Major League Baseball Draft by the Minnesota Twins and made his major league debut in...
(born 1970), American former professional baseball player - Denny HulmeDenny HulmeDenis Clive "Denny" Hulme, OBE was a New Zealand racing driver, the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team....
(1938–1992), New Zealand Formula One auto racer - Denny KantonoDenny KantonoDenny Kantono is a retired Chinese-Indonesian badminton player who specialized in men's doubles. He shared numerous international titles with his regular partner Antonius Ariantho including the French , Hong Kong , Denmark , Thailand , Chinese Taipei , and Indonesia Opens; as well as the ...
(born 1970), retired Indonesian badminton player - Denny LandzaatDenny LandzaatDenny Domingoes Landzaat is a Dutch footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Dutch Eredivisie club FC Twente.-Early life:Landzaat is born and raised in Amsterdam, Netherlands...
(born 1976), Dutch footballer - Denny McLainDenny McLainDennis Dale "Denny" McLain is a former American professional baseball player, and the last major league pitcher to win 30 or more games during a season —a feat accomplished by only thirteen players in the 20th century....
(born 1944), American former professional baseball player - Denny MorrisonDenny MorrisonDenny Morrison is a Canadian speedskater from Fort St. John, British Columbia. His best distance, so far in his career, is the 1500-m, where he held the world record time of 1:42.01 from 14 March 2008 to 6 March 2009...
(born 1985), Canadian world and Olympic champion speedskater - Denny MoyerDenny MoyerDenny Moyer was an American boxer who held the world light middleweight title between 1962 and 1963. He finished his career with a 97–38–4 record.-Early life:...
(1939-2010), American boxer; world light middleweight champion (1962-63) - Denny NeagleDenny NeagleDennis Edward Neagle Jr. is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was last under contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays during the season, but he did not play due to injury...
(born 1968), American former professional baseball player - Dennis O'NeilDennis O'NeilDennis J. "Denny" O'Neil is an American comic book writer and editor, principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and Group Editor for the Batman family of books until his retirement....
(born 1939), comic book writer and editor - Denny RehbergDenny RehbergDennis R. "Denny" Rehberg is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life, education and career:...
(born 1955), U.S. Representative for Montana's At-large congressional district - Denny ShuteDenny ShuteHerman Densmore "Denny" Shute was an American golfer who won three major championships in the 1930s.Shute was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His father was born in England. He attended Western Reserve University , and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He was married on March 20, 1930 to Hettie Marie Potts...
(1904-1974), American golfer - Denny SmithDenny SmithDennis Alan "Denny" Smith is a businessman and former United States congressman from the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he served in the Air Force before working in the airline industry and taking over the family's newspaper business. A Republican, he served ten years in Congress from...
(born 1938), businessman and former congressman from Oregon
Places
- Denny, CaliforniaDenny, CaliforniaDenny is a ghost town in Trinity County, California, United States. Actor Ed Flanders committed suicide there in 1995.-External links:* *...
, a ghost town - Denny, FalkirkDenny, FalkirkDenny is a town in the Falkirk council area of Scotland, formerly in the county of Stirlingshire. It is situated west of Falkirk, and north-east of Cumbernauld, adjacent to both the M80 and M876 motorways...
, a town in Scotland - Denny IslandDenny IslandDenny Island is a small rocky island of , with scrub vegetation, in the Severn Estuary. Its rocky southern foreshore marks the boundary between England and Wales. Above high water mark, the island is reckoned administratively to Monmouthshire, South Wales...
, at the mouth of the River Severn, between England and Wales - Denny Island (Canada)Denny Island (Canada)Denny Island is an island on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, just east of the community of Bella Bella, aka Waglisla, on Campbell Island. Denny Island is the location of Old Bella Bella, now mainly abandoned but home to Canadian Coast Guard and Fisheries & Oceans bases, and the...
, British Columbia - Denny Regrade, Seattle, WashingtonDenny Regrade, Seattle, WashingtonThe Denny Regrade is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, USA, that stretches north of the central business district to the grounds of Seattle Center. Its generally flat terrain was originally a steep hill, taken down as part of a mammoth construction project in the first decades of the 20th...
- 23257 Denny23257 Denny23257 Denny is an asteroid discovered by William Kwong Yu Yeung in late 2000. It is named in honour of Bob Denny, a developer of software for robotic telescopes and inventor of the Astronomy Common Object Model standard....
, an asteroid named after Bob Denny
Other
- Denny AbbeyDenny AbbeyDenny Abbey is a former abbey near Waterbeach, six miles north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England which was inhabited by a succession of three different religious orders during its history serving as a monastery....
, a former abbey in Cambridgeshire, England - Denny BaronetsDenny BaronetsThere have been three Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Denny, one in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom...
, three baronetcies - Denny PartyDenny PartyThe Denny Party is a group of white pioneers credited with founding Seattle, Washington because they settled at Alki Point on November 13, 1851.A wagon party headed by Arthur A. Denny left Cherry Grove, Illinois on April 10, 1851...
, American pioneer group - Denny'sDenny'sDenny's is a full-service coffee shop/family restaurant chain. It operates over 1,500 restaurants in the United States , Canada, Curaçao, Costa Rica, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan , Mexico, New Zealand, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.Denny's is known for always being...
, large restaurant chain - Denny FieldDenny FieldDenny Field was located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and served as the home stadium for the University of Alabama football team from 1915 through the 1928 seasons, excluding 1918 when a team was not fielded due to World War I. The stadium opened in 1915, and was originally named University Field...
, former home stadium for the University of Alabama football team - Denny Field (Washington)Denny Field (Washington)Denny Field is located in Seattle, Washington, and served as the home grounds for the University of Washington football team from the 1895 through the 1920 seasons...
, former home grounds for the University of Washington football team - Denny DuquetteDenny DuquetteDennison Duquette, Jr., more commonly known as Denny Duquette, is a fictional character on the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. The character is portrayed by actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and was created by Shonda Rhimes...
fictional character on US TV Series Grey's Anatomy