Dienes, Dénes, Gyenis, or Gyenes is a Hungarian surname. The name can be found within
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
, its neighboring regions, and across the wider
Hungarian diaspora
Hungarian diaspora ( hu, magyar diaszpóra) is a term that encompasses the total ethnic Hungarian population located outside current-day Hungary.
There are two main groups of the diaspora. The first group includes those who are autochthonous to ...
. It is the Hungarian variant of
Dennis
Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius.
The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is someti ...
, which derives its meaning from
Dionysus
In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (; grc, Διόνυσος ) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity, and theatre. The Romans ...
, the
Thracian
The Thracians (; grc, Θρᾷκες ''Thrāikes''; la, Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in ancient history.. "The Thracians were an Indo-European people who occupied t ...
god of
wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are m ...
.
Notable people with the surname include:
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András Dienes
András Dienes (born 15 October 1974) is a Hungarian football player.
External linksbama.hu: Dienes András a mislenyiekhez szerződöttkozarmislenyse.hu Sqiad for season 2009–2010Profile on hlsz.hu
Hungarian footballers
Living people
1 ...
, Hungarian footballer
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Dávid Gyenes, Hungarian footballer
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Emanuel Gyenes, Romanian rally driver
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Katherine Dienes
Katherine Dienes also known as Katherine Dienes-Williams (born in Wellington, 10 January 1970) is a New Zealand-born organist, conductor and composer. She is currently Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral and is the first w ...
, New Zealand-born organist, conductor and composer working in England
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Paul Dienes, Hungarian mathematician
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Zoltán Pál Dienes, Hungarian mathematician
References
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Hungarian-language surnames