* 1922 – Denis Norden, British television personality

This type of story was a major feature of the radio program My Word !, with a contest between Denis Norden and Frank Muir to see whose story was the most outrageous ending to each show.

** Denis Norden, British television and radio scriptwriter and personality

This put Feldman and Took " in the front rank of comedy writers " according to Denis Norden.

Script-writers included John Albery, John Antrobus, John Betjeman, John Bird, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Roald Dahl, Richard Ingrams, Lyndon Irving, Gerald Kaufman, Frank Muir, David Nobbs, Denis Norden, Bill Oddie, Dennis Potter, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Tynan, and Keith Waterhouse.

Balham, Gateway to the South is a comedy sketch performed by Peter Sellers and written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden as part of a BBC radio series called Third Division.

He was cast in this role by adaptors Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who had seen him in the West End.

Ustinov and Jones improvised on a tape, which was very difficult then edited for broadcast by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who also sometimes took part.

It was created by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane, and featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir, famous in Britain for the series Take It From Here.

It was a companion program to My Word !, and like that show featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir.

Indeed, towards the end Denis Norden decided what song he would sing, supplying some rather bizarre ones.

* 1967-1973: Ian Wallace and Denis Norden versus David Franklin and Frank Muir

* 1974-1994: Ian Wallace and Denis Norden versus John Amis and Frank Muir

* Race, Steve ( 1979 ) My Music ; with the contributions of Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Ian Wallace, John Amis and David Franklin ; drawings by John Jensen.

It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols.

Frank Muir had been writing material for Jimmy Edwards's appearances at Windmill Theatre, and later wrote material for Edwards's radio character, a seedy public school headmaster ; Denis Norden had been staff comedy sketch writer with the Kavanagh agency, and had written material for the Australian comedian Dick Bentley.

A special show was recorded on 14 May 2006 as a ' farewell tour ' to all his shows over the years, called All the Best from Denis Norden, which was shown on 2 January 2007.

In 1930, the Trocadero, a monumental neo-gothic picture house, seating over 3000 and fitted with the biggest Wurlitzer organ in Europe, was built at the northern corner of the New Kent Road ( there is now a plaque commemorating the building and unveiled in 2008 by Denis Norden who had worked there in his youth.

The later British show It'll be Alright on the Night, which has been running on ITV since 1977, and hosted by Denis Norden ( replaced by Griff Rhys Jones in 2008 ) showed out-takes from film and TV.

His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers.

When Edwards teamed up with Dick Bentley on BBC Radio, Muir formed a partnership with Denis Norden, Bentley's writer, which was to last for most of his career.

In November 1998, ten months after his death, he and Denis Norden were joint recipients of the Writers ' Guild of Great Britain Writer of the Year Award.

A UK television programme based on the book and with the same title was broadcast in 1964, featuring Frank Muir and Denis Norden, with the voices of Ronnie Barker and June Whitfield.

Presidents, Chairs and leading activists of the Guild have included: Lord ( Ted ) Willis, Jimmy Perry, Bryan Forbes, Denis Norden, Maureen Duffy, Alan Plater, Rosemary Anne Sisson, Wally K. Daly, Ian Curteis, J. C. Wilsher and David Nobbs.

Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE ( 23 May 1918 in Hendon, Middlesex – 23 April 1997 in Windsor, Berkshire ) was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches, and a footballer.

Sir Denis Follows, CBE ( 13 April 1908 – 17 September 1983 ) was a British sports administrator.

Brian Denis Cox, CBE ( born 1 June 1946 ) is a

Denis Law CBE ( born 24 February 1940 ) is a retired Scottish football player, who enjoyed a long and successful career as a striker from the 1950s to the 1970s.

* Sir Denis Follows CBE, Chairman of the British Olympic Association from 1977-83 and President from 1930-2 of the National Union of Students 1918-23

Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, CBE, PC ( 15 October 1921 – 23 April 2011 ) was a British hereditary peer and businessman, whose paternity and succession to the peerage were famously disputed in the " Ampthill baby case ".

Jeremy John Denis Greenwood CBE is a British ornithologist and was Director of the British Trust for Ornithology ( BTO ) from 1988 until he retired in September 2007.

Denis Diderot was born in Langres, Champagne, and began his formal education at the jesuitic Collège jésuite in Langres.

Denis Colin Leary ( born August 18, 1957 ) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and film producer.

Christophe Guy Denis " Christopher " Lambert ( born 29 March 1957 ) is an American-born French

Lysenko, the son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, was born to a peasant family in Karlivka, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine and attended the Kiev Agricultural Institute.

* Denis Žvegelj, rower, Olympic medalist, born in Jesenice on 24 June 1972,

Quentin Crisp ( born Denis Charles Pratt, – ), was an English writer and raconteur.

Denis Charles Pratt was born in Sutton, Surrey, the fourth child of solicitor Spencer Charles Pratt ( 1871 – 1931 ) and former governess Frances Marion Pratt ( née Phillips ) ( 1873 – 1960 ); he changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his twenties, after leaving home and cultivating his outlandishly effeminate appearance to a standard that both shocked contemporary Londoners and provoked homophobic attacks.

* Denis Payton, saxophonist for The Dave Clark Five, was born in Walthamstow 1943.

* Ruth St. Denis ( 1879 – 1968 ), modern dance pioneer, was born in Somerset County near Somerville.

Denis Sassou Nguesso ( born November 23, 1943 ) is a Congolese politician who has been the President of Congo-Brazzaville since 1997 ; he was previously President from 1979 to 1992.

Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC, MC ( born 30 August 1917 ) is a retired British Labour politician, who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.

* Nelson Antonio Denis ( born 1954 ), New York State Assemblyman

He was born at Pau, the son of Greek colonel Constantin Denis Bourbaki, who died in the War of Independence in 1827.

* Edna Healey, author and wife of Denis Healey, was born in the Forest and lived in Coleford.

Evangelista was born to Italian parents who emigrated to Canada and was raised in a working-class, traditional Roman Catholic family in St. Catharines, Ontario, near Niagara Falls, where she attended Denis Morris Catholic High School.

Jacques Rancière ( born Algiers, 1940 ) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris ( St. Denis ) who came to prominence when he co-authored Reading Capital ( 1968 ), with the structural Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.

The idea for the film was born out of an attempted collaboration between Assayas, Claire Denis, and Atom Egoyan, who wanted to experiment with the situation of a foreigner in Paris.

Gothic sculpture was born in France in 1144 with the renovation of the Abbey Church of S. Denis and spread throughout Europe, by the 13th century it had become the international style, replacing Romanesque.

* Denis Law ( born 1940 ), Scottish football player

Denis MacShane ( born 21 May 1948 ) is a British politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Rotherham since the 1994 by-election and served as the Minister for Europe from 2002 until 2005, as well as being a current Policy Council member for Labour Friends of Israel.

Denis Mikhailovich Arkhipov (; born May 19, 1979 ) is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk of the Kontinental Hockey League ( KHL ).

* General Sir Richard Denis Kelly KCB ( 1815 – 1897, Colonel 34th Cumberland Regiment, born in Ceylon wounded and taken prisoner at Sebastapol, lived in ' Shrublands ' Earley, buried in St Peter's Churchyard Earley )

Denis Murphy ( born 2 November 1948 ) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wansbeck from 1997 until 2010.

In Denis I reign, by a foral of 18 November 1299, it was determined that Portalegre would be donated to the king himself and later to his first born and heir.