Although there is no record of literature about Sark in Sercquiais, Guernésiais and Jèrriais literature has included writing about Sark ; for example by such authors as Edwin John Luce, Thomas Grut, George F. Le Feuvre, and Denys Corbet.

Denys Corbet ( 1826 – 1910 ) was considered the " Last Poet " of Guernsey French and published many poems in his day in his native tongue in the island newspaper and privately.

In 2009 the island held a special exhibition in the Forest Parish on Corbet and his work acknowledging the centenary of his death and unveiling a contemporary portrait painting of the artist by Christian Corbet a cousin to Denys Corbet.

It was for a while the seat of the Denys family of nearby Siston who had inherited Olveston manor, together with nearby Alveston, Earthcott Green, Siston and a moiety ( 1 / 2 ) of Aust together with the rights of the Hundred Court of Langley, in 1380 on marriage to Margaret Corbet, granddaughter of Sir Peter Corbet ( d. 1362 ) Lord of Caus, Shropshire.

Other important Guernésiais writers are Denys Corbet, Tam Lenfestey, T. H. Mahy and Marjorie Ozanne.

* 1887 – Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter ( d. 1931 )

* 1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.

* 1951 – Denys Hobson, South African cricketer

* 1914 – Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre ( d. 2001 )

* October 12 – Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont, French governor-general of French Algeria, killed during the siege of Constantine ( b. 1783 )

* February 8 – Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont, French general and governor-general of French Algeria ( d. 1837 )

* June 15 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.

Denys Lasdun's building for the National Theatre – an " urban landscape " of interlocking terraces responding to the site at King's Reach on the River Thames to exploit views of St Paul's Cathedral and Somerset House.

* October 25 – Opening of Royal National Theatre on the South Bank in London, in premises designed by Sir Denys Lasdun.

* Denys Val Baker – The Face in the Mirror

* Concerto for Orchestra ( Variations without a theme ) by Denys Bouliane ( 1985 – 95 )

* Sir Denys Lionel Page 1971 – 1974

* Christopher Denys Stormont Finch-Hatton, 16th Earl of Winchilsea, 11th Earl of Nottingham ( 1936 – 1999 )

From 1885 to 1887 Pater published four new imaginary portraits in Macmillan's Magazine, each set at a turning-point in the history of ideas or art – ' A Prince of Court Painters ' ( 1885 ) ( on Watteau and Jean-Baptiste Pater ), ' Sebastian van Storck ' ( 1886 ) ( 17th-century Dutch society and painting, and the philosophy of Spinoza ), ' Denys L ' Auxerrois ' ( 1886 ) ( the medieval cathedral-builders ), and ' Duke Carl of Rosenmold ' ( 1887 ) ( the German Renaissance ).

One of the longest-serving members ( 1935 – 2003 ) was Denys Spittle, whose collection of manuscripts was exhibited in 2007 under the title " Private Pleasures: Illuminated manuscripts from Persia to Paris ".

Sir Denys Lasdun CH ( 8 September 1914 – 11 January 2001 ) was an eminent English architect.

* Rowland Denys Guy Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald ( 1916 – 1984 )

* 22 April – Englishman Denys Corbett Wilson completes the first completely successful aeroplane crossing of the Irish Sea, from Goodwick in Wales to Crane near Enniscorthy in Ireland ( Robert Loraine's flight in 1910, often credited as the first crossing, landed 200 feet short ).

* 1995-2002 – Sir Denys Hartley Henderson ( born 1932 )

Denis the Carthusian ( 1402 – 1471 ), also known as Denys van Leeuwen or Denis Ryckel, was a Roman Catholic theologian and mystic.

* Pierre Denys de Montfort ( 1766 – 1820 ), French naturalist

Denys Jones ( producer 1961 – 72 ) and Freeman split the programme into four: chart newcomers, new releases, LPs and the Top 10.

The Denyses appear never to have lived at Kingston Russell, and in 1542 Sir Walter Denys ( 1501 – 1571 ) of Dyrham, great-great-grandson of Sir Gilbert Denys and Margaret Russell sold Kingston Russell to his younger brother Sir Maurice Denys ( 1516 – 1563 ), who sold it in March 1543 / 4 to the Crown.

The controversial tiered concrete New Court ( often dubbed " the Typewriter ") was designed in the Modernist style by Sir Denys Lasdun in 1966-70, and was described as " superb " in Lasdun's obituary in the Guardian.

Others to whom the book was significant included the nature writers Kenneth Allsop and Denys Watkins-Pitchford, who described it as " the greatest animal story ever written ".

Denys Eyre Bower had very personal reasons for collecting Buddhist artefacts as he was himself a Buddhist.

A critical but sympathetic reappraisal of the internationalist oeuvre, inspired by Scandinavian Moderns such as Alvar Aalto, Sigurd Lewerentz and Arne Jacobsen and the late work of Le Corbusier himself was reinterpreted by groups such as Team X including structuralist architects such as Aldo van Eyck, Ralph Erskine, Denys Lasdun, Jorn Utzon and the movement known in the UK as New Brutalism.

Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache is sometimes quoted as the man with the most ever " barrels " in his surname ( six ), but in fact all but the last two of these ( Tollemache-Tollemache ) were forenames.

Denys Johnson-Davies ( Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز ) is an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.

* The original nine League or founder members who formed the party on August 2, 1792: Sir Andrew Ffoulkes ( second in command ), Lord Anthony Dewhurst, Lord Timothy Hastings, Lord John Bathurst, Lord Stowmarries, Sir Edward Mackenzie, Sir Philip Glynde, Lord Saint Denys, Sir Richard Galveston

The SOAS Library, housed in Philips Building ( designed at the beginning of the 1970s by Sir Denys Lasdun, and named after the then SOAS Director, Professor Cyril Philips ), is the UK's national resource for materials relating to Asia and Africa and is the largest of its kind in Europe.

Powell's film The Enemy Below ( 1957 ), based on the novel by Denys Rayner, won an Academy Award for special effects.

This was not a purchase on behalf of the society and after a five year delay, it was transferred under the will of Denys in 1516 to the Carthusian House of Jesus of Bethlehem ( Sheen Priory ), which remained the Society's landlord until 1539, when the Second Act of Dissolution led to the Dissolution of the Monasteries and passed ownership of the Inn to the Crown.

Jésus de Montréal ( 1989 ), Denys Arcand

Les Invasions barbares ( 2003 ), Denys Arcand

Peace & Harmony Lodge No. 496 ( 23 March 1844 ); Tewington Lodge No. 5698 ,( 22 March 1938 ); Carlyon Lodge No. 7392 ,( 2 November 1955 ); St Denys Lodge No. 8250, ( January 1969 ),

Philosophers working in the intersection of Thomism and analytic philosophy include: David Braine, Brian Davies OP ( Fordham ), Gabriele De Anna ( Udine ), John Finnis ( Oxford ), Peter Geach, John Haldane ( St Andrews ), Jonathan Jacobs ( Colgate ), Anthony Kenny ( Oxford ), Fergus Kerr OP ( Oxford ), Gyula Klima ( Fordham ), Norman Kretzmann, John Lamont, Anthony J. Lisska ( Denison ), Alasdair MacIntyre ( Notre Dame ), Bruce D. Marshall ( Southern Methodist Univ ), William Marshner ( Christendom ), Christopher Martin ( St Thomas, Houston ), Cyrille Michon ( Nantes, France ), Mark Murphy ( Georgetown ), Herbert McCabe, John P. O ' Callaghan ( Notre Dame ), Claude Panaccio ( UQAM ), Robert Pasnau ( CU Boulder ), Craig Paterson ( Independent Scholar ), Roger Pouivet ( Nancy, France ) Matthew S. Pugh ( Providence College ), Eleonore Stump ( Saint Louis ), Thomas Sullivan and Sandra Menssen ( University of St. Thomas, MN ), Stephen Theron, Denys Turner ( Yale ), Michael Thompson ( Pittsburgh ).