Researching Dennis Jensen
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 194 people with the Jensen surname? In that year Jensen was ranked number 3385 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Dennis means "Of Dionysius" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Dennis Jensen on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Dennis Jensen and the Jensen Genealogy
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Some Famous People called Dennis Jensen
Dennis Jensen
Dennis Geoffrey Jensen (born 28 February 1962) is a former Australian politician. He was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2004 federal election, winning the Division of Tangney for the Liberal Party. Jensen lost Liberal preselection for the 2016 federal election, and subsequently resigned from the party to stand as an independent. In August 2017 he joined the fledgling Australian Conservatives party. Jensen has a PhD in materials science from Monash University, and before entering politics worked as a CSIRO researcher. He is known for questioning the anthropogenic causation of climate change.
Source: Dennis Jensen, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Dennis Otzen Jensen
Dennis Otzen Jensen (born December 2, 1974) is a Danish former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events. He is a 2000 Olympian, and a member of Triton Swimming Club in Skovlunde under his personal coach John Ludvigsen.
Jensen competed in three swimming events, including all freestyle relays, for Denmark at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He achieved a FINA B-cut of 55.31 (100 m butterfly) from the European Championships in Helsinki. In the 100 m butterfly, Jensen challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Yugoslav teenager Milorad Čavić (aged 16), who later disqualified for a false start. He raced to a fifth seed and forty-second overall by almost a full body length behind winner Simão Morgado of Portugal in 55.70. A member of the Danes, he also placed eighteenth in the 4×100 m freestyle relay (3:24.78), and eleventh in the 4×200 m freestyle relay (7:24.63).
Source: Dennis Otzen Jensen, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Jensen
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