Des is a masculine given name, mostly a short form (

hypocorism A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for ...

) of Desmond. People named Des include:

People

* Des Buckingham, English football manager *

Des Corcoran James Desmond Corcoran AO (8 November 1928 – 3 January 2004) was an Australian politician, representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. He was the 37th Premier of South Australia, serving between 15 February 1979 ...

, (1928–2004), Australian politician * Des Dillon (disambiguation), several people *

Des Hasler Desmond John Hasler (born 16 February 1961) is an Australian professional rugby league coach, and a former professional rugby league footballer who played as and . He initially played for the Penrith Panthers, and then spent most of his playi ...

(born 1961), Australian rugby league player-coach * Desmond Des Kelly (born 1965), British journalist * Desmond

Des Lynam Desmond Michael Lynam, (born 17 September 1942) is an Irish-born television and radio presenter. In a broadcasting career spanning more than forty years, he has hosted television coverage of many of the world's major sporting events, presentin ...

(born 1942), British television presenter * Desmond Des Lyttle (born 1971), English footballer * Desmond

Des O'Connor Desmond Bernard O'Connor (12 January 1932 – 14 November 2020) was an English comedian, singer and television presenter. He was a long-time TV chat-show host, beginning with ''The Des O'Connor Show'' in 1963, which ran for ten years. He a ...

(1932–2020), British entertainer *

, Australian rugby league player in the 1970s * Desmond Des O'Grady (born 1953), Irish retired Gaelic footballer * Des O'Hagan (1934–2015), Irish communist *

Desmond O'Malley Desmond Joseph O'Malley (2 February 1939 – 21 July 2021) was an Irish politician who served as Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1977 to 1981 and 1989 to 1992, Leader of the Progressive Democrats from 1985 to 1993, Minister for Trade, ...

(1939–2021), Irish politician, government minister and founder and leader of the Progressive Democrats * Desmond Des O'Neil (1920–1999), Australian politician *

Des O'Reilly Des O'Reilly (19 November 1954 – 7 March 2016) was an Australian rugby league footballer who made 127 appearances for the Eastern Suburbs Roosters from 1975 to 1982, and then 13 appearances for Cronulla Cronulla is a suburb of Sydney, in ...

(1954–2016), Australian rugby league player *

Desmond Smith (general) Major-General James Desmond Blaise "Des" Smith, CBE, DSO, KStJ, CD (2 October 1911 – 11 October 1991) was a senior Canadian Army officer active in World War II, fighting in the Italian Campaign and Northwest Europe. Early life and milita ...

(1911–1991), Canadian major-general * Des Smith (headteacher), British headteacher embroiled in the Cash for Honours scandal *

Des Smith (ice hockey) Desmond Patrick Smith (February 22, 1914 – September 26, 1981) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played four four teams in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1937 and 1942. He won the Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins in 1941. His ...

(1914–1981), Canadian ice hockey defenceman * Desmond Sinclair

Des Walker Desmond Sinclair Walker (born 26 November 1965) is an English football coach and former player, who played as a defender. At club level he played in seven cup finals for Nottingham Forest at Wembley, winning five of them. He was Forest's play ...

(born 1965), English international footballer

Fictional characters

* Desmond

Des Barnes Des Barnes is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Philip Middlemiss. Storylines Des was deeply in love with Steph ( Amelia Bullmore), but she did not seem to care as deeply for him, and eventu ...

, in the British soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * Desmond

Des Clarke (Neighbours) Des Clarke is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Paul Keane. Des was created by Reg Watson as one of ''Neighbours twelve original characters. He made his first on screen appearance on 18 March 198 ...

, in the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' * Desmond

Des Tiny The book series ''The Saga of Darren Shan'' features humans, vampires and fantasy characters of other types. Overview * A dark grey cell indicates that the character was not in the property or that the character's presence in the property h ...

, in the book series ''The Saga of Darren Shan''

People

Fictional characters

See also