Admiral Sir Michael Maynard Denny, GCB, CBE, DSO (3 October 1896 – 7 April 1972) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Third Sea Lord from 1949 to 1953.

He spent two years at sea as an executive officer before becoming assistant director of Naval Ordnance at the Admiralty in 1937.

[2] In 1943 he took command of the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious, from which he conducted air strikes against Okinawa in Japan.

[2] After the war Denny became Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel and Director of Personal Services and then, from 1947, Flag Officer (Destroyers) for the Mediterranean Fleet.

[2] He was appointed Chairman of the British Joint Services Mission to Washington, D.C., and UK Representative on the NATO Standing Group in 1956.