Denny Moore (born 1944) is an American linguist, and anthropologist. He graduated from the University of Michigan, and from the City University of New York with a Ph.D. in Anthropology.He has worked for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, and is Coordinator of the Linguistics Division, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem-Para, Brazil.He published a grammar of Gavião, a Brazilian Amazonian language. He is on the advisory board of the Center for Amazon Community Ecology.