Notable inmates

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling (15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and the founder and creator of the Special Air Service (SAS).

David Thai, (born Thái Hoàng Thọ on January 30, 1956), is a Vietnamese-American gangster.

David Vogel (Hebrew: דוד פוגל; May 15, 1891–1944) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish poet, novelist, and diarist.

David Weiss Halivni (Hebrew: דָּוִד וַיְיס הַלִּבְנִי; September 27, 1927 – June 28, 2022) was a European-born American-Israeli rabbi, scholar in the domain of Jewish sciences, and professor of Talmud.

David Weitzman, QC (18 June 1898 – 6 May 1987) was a British Labour Party politician. Weitzman was born in Blackburn and educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow, Manchester Central School and Manchester University.

David Bauer (born Herman Bernard Waldman, March 6, 1917 – February 8 or 13, 1973) was an American film, television, and stage actor who, from November 1958 until his death, was based primarily in Britain.

Dean Phillip Carter (born August 30, 1955) is an American convicted spree killer and serial rapist who was sentenced to death for the murders of four women in California in April 1984.

Deborah Lifchitz (5 June 1907 – 20 September 1942) was a Polish-French ethnologist and linguist, expert on Semitic languages and cultures of Ethiopia.

Debra Jean Milke (née Sadeik; born March 10, 1964) is a German-American woman who spent over 25 years in prison in the state of Arizona.

Demetrio Vallejo (November 7 1910 – December 24, 1985) was a railroad worker and union activist from Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Dénes Friedmann (1903–1944) was a Hungarian writer and Chief Rabbi in Újpest (today part of Budapest), Hungary. He was co-editor of Magyar Zsidó Szemle. The Nazis killed Friedmann's son in his presence after which he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he was killed.

Denis Avey (11 January 1919 – 16 July 2015) was a British veteran of the Second World War who was held as a prisoner of war at E715, a subcamp of Auschwitz concentration camp.

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.

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.