Dent may refer to:

People

Dent (surname) Dent is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Aileen Dent (1890–1978), Australian artist *Akeem Dent (born 1987), American football linebacker *Alan Dent (1905–1978), Scottish journalist, editor and writer *Albert W. Dent (1904� ...

* Dent May, stage name of American musician James Dent May Jr. (born 1985) * Dent Mowrey (1888–1960), American composer, musician and music teacher * Dent Oliver (1918–1973), international speedway rider

Places

United Kingdom

* Dent (fell), near England's Lake District in Cleator Moor, Copeland, Cumbria *

Dent, South Lakeland Dent is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It lies in Dentdale, a narrow valley on the western slopes of the Pennines within the Yorkshire Dales National Park, sou ...

, a village near Sedbergh in Cumbria **

Dent railway station Dent is a railway station on the Settle and Carlisle Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated north-west of Leeds, serves the villages of Cowgill and Dent, in Cumbria, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by No ...

Dent Fault The Dent Fault is a major fault (geology), fault zone on the boundary between the counties of Cumbria and North Yorkshire in northern England. It is named after the village of Dent, South Lakeland, Dent in Dentdale, on the western margin of the ...

, northern England *

Dent Group The Dent Group is a group of Upper Ordovician sedimentary and volcanic rocks in north-west England. It is the lowermost part of the Windermere Supergroup, which was deposited in the foreland basin formed during the collision between Laurentia an ...

, a group of Upper Ordovician sedimentary and volcanic rocks in northwest England

United States

* Dent, Idaho, an unincorporated community *

Dent, Minnesota Dent is a city in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 173 at the 2020 census. History A post office called Dent has been in operation since 1900. Dent was platted in 1903, and was incorporated on September 6, 1904 ...

, a city * Dent, Missouri, an unincorporated community *

Dent, Ohio Dent is a census-designated place (CDP) in Green Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 12,301 at the 2020 census. History Dent was originally known as Challensville in the 19th century, named for the local minister ...

, a census-designated place * Dent, West Virginia, a census-designated place *

Dent Township (disambiguation) Dent Township may refer to: * Dent Township, Lawrence County, Arkansas, in Lawrence County, Arkansas * Dent Township, Woodruff County, Arkansas, in Woodruff County, Arkansas Woodruff County, officially the County of Woodruff, is located in th ...

* Dent Bridge, Idaho *

Dent County, Missouri Dent County is a county in Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,421. The largest city and county seat is Salem. The county was officially organized on February 10, 1851, and is named after state representative Lewis Dent, a ...

Dent site The Dent site is a Clovis culture (about 11,000 years before present) site located in Weld County, Colorado, near Milliken, Colorado. It provided evidence that humans and mammoths co-existed in the Americas. The site is located on an alluvial ...

, a Clovis culture site near Milliken, Colorado * Fort Dent

Arts and entertainment

* Dent (Pokémon), the Japanese name for a gym leader in ''Pokémon Black'' and ''White'', named Cilan in English * Dent (Pokémon anime), the Japanese name for a main character in the ''Pokémon: Black & White'' anime series, named Cilan in English *

Arthur Dent Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character and the hapless protagonist of the comic science fiction series ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' by Douglas Adams. In the radio, LP and television versions of the story, Arthur is played b ...

, protagonist of the science fiction series ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' * Harvey Dent, aka

Two-Face Two-Face is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Bob Kane, and first appeared in ''Detective Comics'' #66 (August 1942). He has become one of the superhero Batman's most enduring e ...

, a DC Comics Batman villain *

Dent (band) Lane Shi Otayonii (Mandarin Chinese: 莱恩·施·奥塔约尼; born either 1993 or 1994) is a Chinese musician, sound designer, film composer, and installation artist based currently out of both Shanghai and New York City. She is known for bei ...

, an American experimental metal band

Companies

Dent (clocks and watches) Dent London was a London manufacturer of luxury clocks and watches, founded by Edward John Dent. Dent began making watches in 1814, although the Dent triangular trade mark was not registered until 1876. A notable success for the company was winning ...

, the manufacturer of London's Big Ben * Dent & Co., a major trading company in Hong Kong's early colonial days *

Dents Dents is a British company that crafts luxury leather gloves, handbags, and small leather goods. Dents is known for its hand cutting, sewing, and stitching techniques, which are still practised today on some limited top-end products, most merc ...

, a British leather goods company founded in 1777 * J. M. Dent & Sons, a British publishing company founded by J. M. Dent in 1888

Other uses

Dent (conference) Dent (known previously as Dent the Future) is an annual conference in Santa Fe, NM (originally Sun Valley, ID), founded by Jason Preston and Steve Broback. Participants gather in March to "explore the magic and science of visionary leadership ...

, an annual leadership conference in Sun Valley, Idaho *

Dent Corn Dent corn, also known as grain corn, is a type of field corn with a high soft starch content. It received its name because of the small indentation, or "dent", at the crown of each Corn kernel, kernel on a ripe ear of corn. Reid's Yellow Dent is ...

, a variety of maize with a high soft starch content * USS ''Dent'' (DD-116), a United States Navy ship