Dennis Earl Green (February 17, 1949 – July 21, 2016) was an American football coach. During his National Football League (NFL) career, Green coached the Minnesota Vikings for 10 seasons. He also coached the Arizona Cardinals for three seasons.

As the Vikings head coach from 1992 to 2001, Green led the team to the playoffs in eight of his 10 seasons with the team. His best season in Minnesota was in 1998, when the Vikings finished 15–1 and set the NFL record for most points in a season at the time. However, the Vikings would be upset by the Atlanta Falcons in that year's NFC Championship Game. Following his first losing record in 2001, he was fired just before the final game of the season.

Green was hired by the Cardinals to serve as the head coach for the 2004 season, but was unable to match his success in Minnesota, and his tenure was overshadowed by a postgame tirade he made after the team lost a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter of a 2006 game against the Chicago Bears.

Green grew up in a working class household in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His father was a postal worker and his mother a beautician. His father died when Green was 11 and his mother died when he was 13. Green has said that he was in attendance at the March 2, 1962 NBA game in Hershey, Pennsylvania where Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points.

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