Denis Orval Lapalme (April 29, 1959 – November 1, 2021) was a Canadian amputee athlete and actor, most noted as a competitor and medalist at the Paralympic Games.

[1] Born in Timmins, Ontario, Lapalme lost both legs in a train accident in childhood.

He also competed nationally and internationally in other track and wheelchair basketball competitions below the Paralympic level,[5] including at the IWAS World Games in 1979.

[6] Although no longer active as a Paralympic competitor after 1992, he remained involved in sports as late as the early 2010s as captain of the Ottawa Sledgehammers, the city's sledge hockey team.

[7] Lapalme died on November 1, 2021, in Hull, Quebec at the age of 62 of brain cancer.