Dent (surname)
Dent is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Aileen Dent, Australian artist
- Akeem Dent, American football linebacker
- Alan Dent, Scottish journalist, editor and writer
- Albert W. Dent, an academic administrator
- Alfred Dent, British businessman and founder of the North Borneo Chartered Company
- Ancilla Dent, English Roman Catholic nun, ecological activist, and writer
- Andrew Dent, Australian doctor and humanitarian worker
- Beryl May Dent, British mathematical physicist
- Betty-Ann Dent, retired American professional tennis player
- Borden Dent, American geographer and cartographer
- Bucky Dent, American baseball player
- Burnell Dent, former professional American football linebacker
- Catherine Dent, American actress
- Charles Dent, multiple people with the name
- Charles Enrique Dent, British biochemist
- Charlie Dent, Pennsylvanian politician
- Chris Dent, English cricketer
- Clinton Thomas Dent, English alpinist, author and surgeon
- Denny Dent, American speed painter
- Digby Dent, father and son
- Douglas Dent, Royal Navy officer
- Eddie Dent, pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Edith Vere Dent, amateur botanist and wild flower enthusiast
- Edward John Dent, English watch maker
- Edward Joseph Dent, English musicologist and biographer of Handel
- Eric Dent, American complexity theorist
- Francis Dent, British railway manager
- Frederick B. Dent, United States Secretary of Commerce
- Frederick Tracy Dent, American soldier
- George Dent, American planter and politician from Maryland
- Grace Dent, English columnist, broadcaster and author
- Harry Dent, multiple people with the name
- J. M. Dent, British publisher
- Jason Dent, American mixed martial artist
- John Dent, multiple people with the name
- Julia Boggs Dent, wife of Ulysses Grant, the President of the United States
- Lester Dent, writer best known for creating the character Doc Savage
- Maggie Dent, Australian parenting author
- Martin Dent , English academic
- Richard Dent, former football player
- Susie Dent, English lexicographer
- Taylor Dent, American tennis player
- Ted Dent, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- Teresa Dent, CEO, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
- Thomas Dent, multiple people with the name
- Vernon Dent, American actor
- William Barton Wade Dent, American politician
Characters
- Arthur Dent, principal character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Random Frequent Flyer Dent, daughter of Arthur Dent
- Hanzee Dent, character in the TV show Fargo
- Harvey Dent, villain from Batman's rogue gallery
- Fooly Dent, principal character in How to Treat a Lady Knight Right
