Notable inmates

Denise Madeleine Bloch (French pronunciation: [dəniz blɔk] ; 21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was a French citizen who worked as an agent with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War.

Denise Holstein (6 February 1927 – 16 November 2024) was a French Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and Holocaust witness, who was liberated on 15 April 1945.

Denise Vernay-Jacob (21 June 1924 – 4 March 2013) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II, who operated under the aliases of "Miarka" and "Annie" from 1941.

Denis MacShane (born Josef Denis Matyjaszek; 21 May 1948) is a British former politician, author, commentator and convicted criminal who served as Minister of State for Europe from 2002 to 2005.

Denis Sergeevich Pischikov (Russian: Дени́с Серге́евич Пи́счиков; born 12 April 1983), known as The Shivering Creature (Russian: Тварь дрожащая), is a Russian robber and serial killer, who killed 14 elderly people between 2002 and 2003 in the Moscow Oblast and Vladimir Oblast.

Deniz Seki (born July 1, 1970) is a Turkish pop singer, songwriter and composer.

John Dennis Hastert ( HASS-tərt; born January 2, 1942) is an American former politician and convicted felon who served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007.

Dennis Andrew Nilsen (23 November 1945 – 12 May 2018) was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983.

Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), better known by his pseudonym BTK (for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991.

Denyse Henriette Léonie Clairouin (27 August 1900 in Paris – 12 March 1945 in Mauthausen) was a French translator and Resistance fighter. During the Second World War, she was part of the Resistance (group Secret Army).

Colonel Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles (31 October 1598 – 17 February 1680) was an English politician and army officer who was one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest by Charles I in January 1642 sparked the First English Civil War.

Derek Michael Chauvin ( SHOH-vən; born 1976) is an American former police officer who murdered George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (Welsh: [ɬɛˈwɛlɪn]; 12 September 1914 – 19 December 1999) was a Welsh actor.

Desmond Ellis (born 23 September 1953) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency since the 2011 general election.

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil (March 8–June 20, 2025; 104 days) was the US federal government's incarceration and attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a student at Columbia University and a lead negotiator of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment during the Gaza war and genocide.

Dezső Ernster (23 November 1898 – 15 February 1981) was a Hungarian opera singer who sang leading bass roles with the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1946 to 1963.

Elizabeth Diane Downs (née Frederickson, born August 7, 1955) is an American woman who murdered her daughter and attempted to murder her other two children on May 19, 1983, in Oregon.

Dick de Zeeuw (January 24, 1924, Tanjung Pura, Langkat, Langkat Regency – February 18, 2009, Bangkok) was a Dutch politician and agronomist.

Dick Kattenburg (11 November 1919 in Amsterdam – 30 September 1944 in Auschwitz) was a Dutch Jewish composer who was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of 24.

Didier Couécou (born 25 July 1944) is a former French footballer who played striker.

Didrik Arup Seip (31 August 1884 – 3 May 1963) was a professor of North Germanic languages at the University of Oslo. He earned his doctorate (dr.philos.) in 1916 and was appointed professor the same year, retiring in 1954.

Dieter Popp (24 November 1938 – 27 November 2020) was a West German insurance agent who worked as a spy between 1969 and 1990.

Dietrich "Dieter" Wisliceny (13 January 1911 – 4 May 1948) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the deputies of Adolf Eichmann, helping to organise and coordinate the large-scale deportations of the Jews across Europe during the Holocaust.