Bennett (name)
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Bennett is an English and Irish language surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 derived from the medieval given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 Benedict
Benedict
Benedict is a masculine given name. It comes from the Latin benedictus, meaning "blessed".Benedict most commonly refers to Saint Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the Order of Saint Benedict and thereby of Western Monasticism...

 (Latin, Benedictus, "blessed"). The oldest public record of the surname is dated 1208 in County Durham
County Durham
County Durham is a ceremonial county and unitary district in north east England. The county town is Durham. The largest settlement in the ceremonial county is the town of Darlington...

. People with the name include:

Surname

  • Bennett (London cricketer)
    Bennett (London cricketer)
    "Little" Bennett was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for London Cricket Club in the 1740s and 1750s. He was almost certainly the brother of the player known as Tall Bennett...

     ("Little" and "Tall" Bennett), two London Club cricketers in the 1740s and 1750s
  • Abram Bennett
    Abram Bennett
    Abram Elting Bennett was an American psychiatrist best known for his work on electroconvulsive therapy .Bennett published over 50 research articles and several books, including Fifty Years in Neurology and Psychiatry , Alcoholism and the Brain and Huguenots Migration: Descendants' Contributions...

     (1898–1985), American psychiatrist
  • A. L. Bennett
    A. L. Bennett
    A. L. Bennett was an American basketball player. He was an NCAA All-American at Oklahoma State University and a member of the school's 1945–46 national championship team....

     (1924–2008), American basketball player
  • Alan Bennett
    Alan Bennett
    Alan Bennett is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research mediaeval history at the university for several years...

    , English author and actor
  • Alfred Rosling Bennett
    Alfred Rosling Bennett
    Alfred Rosling Bennett was an English electrical engineer.-Career:A. R. Bennett studied at Belle Vue Academy, Greenwich, London. He then took a job with the Indian government telegraph department.He returned to Britain in 1873 and was responsible for pioneering work in incandescent electric...

     (1850–1928), English electrical engineer and author of The Chronicles of Boulton's Siding, published in 1927
  • Arnold Bennett
    Arnold Bennett
    - Early life :Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Hanley is one of a conurbation of six towns which joined together at the beginning of the twentieth century as Stoke-on-Trent. Enoch Bennett, his father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the...

    , English novelist
  • Anthony Bennett (disambiguation) (also Tony Bennett)
  • Bert Bennett
    Bert Bennett
    Hubert Henry 'Bert' Bennett was a professional footballer who played as a full back for Bristol Rovers. He joined the club in 1911 and played 101 games in the Southern League without scoring, before losing his place in the team to David Taylor during the 1914–15 season...

    , English footballer
  • Bobby Bennett, American Idol contestant
  • Brea Bennett
    Brea Bennett
    Brea Bennett , is an American pornographic actress.Bennett grew up in Arizona. She grew up wanting to be a singer, initially studying opera; but she has since expanded her repertoire...

     (born 1987), American pornographic actress
  • Brian Bennett, English musician
  • Brian T. Bennett
    Brian T. Bennett
    Brian Timothy Bennett is a Time Magazine correspondent based in Washington D.C.; he covers national security issues.Bennett is a native of Riverside, California; he attended The Thacher School in Ojai, California...

    , American journalist
  • Brooke Bennett
    Brooke Bennett
    Brooke Marie Bennett is an American swimmer and triple Olympic champion.-1996 Summer Olympics:Bennett’s first gold medal came in the 800 meter freestyle race at the 1996 Summer Olympics...

    , American swimmer
  • Bruce Bennett
    Bruce Bennett (Arkansas politician)
    Bruce Bennett was a Democratic politician from El Dorado, Arkansas, who served as his state's attorney general from 1957–1960 and from 1963–1966...

    , Arkansas politician
  • Charles Bennett (disambiguation)
  • Clay Bennett
    Clay Bennett
    Clay Bennett is an American editorial cartoonist. Currently drawing for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Bennett is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning....

     (born 1958), American editorial cartoonist
  • Clayton Bennett
    Clayton Bennett
    Clayton "Clay" Ike' Bennett is an American businessman and chairman of the Professional Basketball Club LLC, the ownership group of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA franchise that was formerly the Seattle SuperSonics...

    , American businessman
  • Colin Bennett (disambiguation)
  • Constance Bennett
    Constance Bennett
    -Early life:She was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose father was the stage actor Lewis Morrison , a wealthy performer of English and Spanish ancestry...

    , American actress
  • Cornelius Bennett
    Cornelius Bennett
    Cornelius O'Landa Bennett is a former American football linebacker who played for the Buffalo Bills from 1987 to 1995, Atlanta Falcons from 1996 to 1998, and the Indianapolis Colts from 1999 to 2000...

    , former American football player
  • Cybil Bennett, a character of Silent Hill
    Silent Hill
    is a survival horror video game series consisting of seven installments published by Konami and its subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment. The first four games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4, have been developed by an internal factor, Team Silent...

     series
  • D. M. Bennett
    D. M. Bennett
    DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett was the founder and publisher of The Truth Seeker, a radical freethought and reform American periodical. Bennett was a devout member of the Shakers for 13 years before evolving into a "freethinker", founding The Truth Seeker newspaper in 1873...

     (1818-1882), former Shaker and "freethinker"
  • Darren Bennett
    Darren Bennett (footballer)
    Darren Bennett is a former Australian rules football player and American football punter in the National Football League.As an Australian rules footballer, he played 12 seasons for two clubs...

     (born 1965), Australian player of multiple football codes
  • David Bennett (coach)
    David Bennett (coach)
    -Playing history:Bennett played football and golf at Presbyterian College before graduating in 1984.-External links:**...

    , American football coach
  • Dick Bennett
    Dick Bennett
    Dick Bennett is an American college basketball coach who is best known for revitalizing the Wisconsin Badgers basketball program...

     (born 1943), American basketball coach
  • Don Bennett
    Don Bennett
    Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett CB CBE DSO RAF was an Australian aviation pioneer and bomber pilot who rose to be the youngest Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force. He led the "Pathfinder Force" from 1942 to the end of the Second World War in 1945...

    , leader of the Pathfinder force, RAF, World War II
  • Drew Bennett
    Drew Bennett
    Andrew Russell "Drew" Bennett is a former American football wide receiver of the National Football League. He was signed by the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent in 2001. He played college football at UCLA....

    , NFL wide receiver
  • Dwight Henry Bennett (1917-2002)
  • Edwin Keppel Bennett
    Edwin Keppel Bennett
    Edwin Keppel Bennett, noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel , was an English writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic...

    , English academic
  • Edward Turner Bennett
    Edward Turner Bennett
    Edward Turner Bennett was an English zoologist and writer. He was the elder brother of the botanist John Joseph Bennett. Bennett was born at Hackney and practiced as a surgeon, but his chief pursuit was always zoology...

     (Francis Bennett), zoologist
  • Eric Bennett
    Eric Bennett
    Eric Bennett is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1940s. Hailing from The Central West region of New South Wales, he played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Western Suburbs Magpies at centre and five-eighth. Bennett played over 100 games for the...

    , rugby league footballer
  • Estelle Bennett
    Estelle Bennett
    Estelle Bennett was a member of the girl group The Ronettes, along with her sister Ronnie Spector and cousin Nedra Talley....

    , American singer
  • Fleur Bennett
    Fleur Bennett
    Fleur Alison Bennett is a British television actress.-Education:Born in St. Ives, Cornwall, Fleur was affectionately called 'flower' or 'Fleurpops' when she was a child. She attended St. Ives High School Fleur Alison Bennett (born 18 June 1968) is a British television actress.-Education:Born in...

    , English television actress
  • Frank Bennett (disambiguation)
  • Fred Bennett (footballer)
    Fred Bennett (footballer)
    Frederick 'Fred' Bennett was a professional footballer who played in the Football League for Bristol Rovers and Chester....

    , English footballer
  • Gareth Bennett
    Gareth Bennett
    Gareth Vaughan Bennett , also known as Garry Bennett, was an Anglican priest and academic who committed suicide in the wake of media reactions to an anonymous preface he wrote for Crockford’s Clerical Directory....

    , Anglican clergyman and academic
  • George Bennett (disambiguation)
    George Bennett (disambiguation)
    George Bennett or Bennet may refer to:*George Bennett , Australian professional football player*George Bennett , Roman Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen...

  • Gordon Bennett (disambiguation)
  • Granville G. Bennett
    Granville G. Bennett
    Granville Gaylord Bennett was an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court for the Dakota Territory and as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives....

    , American lawyer and politician
  • Harry Bennett
    Harry Bennett
    Harry Bennett , a former boxer and ex-Navy sailor, was an executive at Ford Motor Company during the 1930s and 1940s. He was best known as the head of Ford’s Service Department, or Internal Security. While working for Ford, his union busting tactics, of which The Battle of the Overpass was a prime...

    , Ford Motor Company executive
  • Harry Bennett
    Harry Bennett
    Harry Bennett , a former boxer and ex-Navy sailor, was an executive at Ford Motor Company during the 1930s and 1940s. He was best known as the head of Ford’s Service Department, or Internal Security. While working for Ford, his union busting tactics, of which The Battle of the Overpass was a prime...

    , (1895-1990) Author/editor of "The Chemical Formulary"
  • Lt. Henry Boswell Bennett
    Henry Boswell Bennett
    Lieutenant Henry Boswell Bennett of the 45th Regiment of Foot , on 31 May 1838 he became the first officer to die in the service of Queen Victoria when he was shot by John Nichols Thom in Kent....

     of the 45th Regiment of Foot, the first officer to die in the service of Queen Victoria (May 31, 1838)
  • Harry Rodney Bennett (pseudonym Royden Barrie) (1890–1948), English poet
  • Hugh Hammond Bennett
    Hugh Hammond Bennett
    Hugh Hammond Bennett was a pioneer in the field of soil conservation in the United States of America. He founded and headed the Soil Conservation Service, a federal agency now referred to as the Natural Resources Conservation Service.- Biography :Bennett was born near Wadesboro in Anson County,...

    , founder of the Soil Conservation Service
  • Hywel Bennett
    Hywel Bennett
    Hywel Thomas Bennett is a Welsh film and television actor. Bennett is best known for his recurring title role as James Shelley in the television sitcom Shelley from 1979 to 1984 and its sequel The Return of Shelley from 1988 to 1992....

    , Welsh actor
  • Jack Arthur Walter Bennett (better known as J. A. W. Bennett), scholar of Middle English literature
  • James Bennett (disambiguation), also Jim Bennett
  • Jeff Bennett, American voice actor
  • Jill Bennett (disambiguation)
  • Joan Bennett
    Joan Bennett
    Joan Geraldine Bennett was an American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies well into the sound era...

    , American actress
  • John Bennett (disambiguation)
  • Jonathan Bennett (disambiguation)
    Jonathan Bennett (disambiguation)
    Jonathan Bennett may refer to:*Jonathan Bennett , British philosopher*Jonathan Bennett , American actor*Jonathan Bennett , Creator of AutoIt-See also:*John Bennett...

  • Joseph L. Bennett
    Joseph L. Bennett
    Joseph L. Bennett was an early settler of Montgomery County, Texas who served as Lt. Colonel in the Battle of San Jacinto and the Somervell Expedition. He later served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1838-1840....

    , Texas Republic Lt. Colonel, Texas Legislator 1838-40
  • Ken Bennett
    Ken Bennett
    Ken Bennett is a Republican politician and businessman who served as president of the Arizona Senate, and is currently serving as the Secretary of State of Arizona.-Biography:...

    , American politician
  • Kirt Bennett
    Kirt Bennett
    Kirt Bruce Bennett was an African-American Republican political activist, businessman, and educational leader in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.-Early years:...

     (1967–2010), Louisiana businessman, educator, and politician
  • Linda L. M. Bennett
    Linda L. M. Bennett
    Linda Louise M. Bennett was named president of the University of Southern Indiana by its Board of Trustees effective 2009 July 1, incumbent president H...

    , administrator and political scientist at the University of Southern Indiana
  • Lorna Bennett
    Lorna Bennett
    Lorna Bennett is a reggae singer who twice topped the Jamaican singles chart in the early 1970s, and who is best remembered for her reggae version of "Breakfast in Bed".-Biography:Born in St...

     (b. 1977), Actor
  • Meg Bennett
    Meg Bennett
    Meg Bennett is an American television soap opera writer and occasional actress. She is married to General Hospital Head Writer Robert Guza, Jr.-Early life:...

    , American TV writer
  • Nathan Bennett, Australian Rugby League Player
  • Nigel Bennett
    Nigel Bennett
    Nigel Bennett is an English actor/director/writer who has been based in Canada since 1986. He is best known for playing the vampire patriarch Lucien LaCroix in the TV series Forever Knight, for which he won the Canadian Gemini Award for best supporting actor in a dramatic series.-Life and...

    , English actor
  • Nigel Harvie Bennett
    Nigel Harvie Bennett
    Major Nigel Harvie Bennett was an English cricketer.Bennett was unexpectedly appointed as the county captain of Surrey County Cricket Club in 1946 when the club was still recovering from the Second World War. It is generally believed he was mistaken for the prominent club cricketer and BBC...

     (b. 1912), English cricketer, captained Surrey
  • Paul Bennett (disambiguation)
  • Paris Bennett
    Paris Bennett
    Paris Ana'is Bennett is an American singer. She came to national recognition as a contestant on the fifth season of the reality television talent show, American Idol, finishing in fifth place...

    , American singer
  • Percy Bennett
    Percy Bennett
    Percy Bennett was an English-born international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cardiff Harlequins and international rugby for Wales...

    , Wales international rugby union player
  • Pete Bennett
    Pete Bennett
    Peter "Pete" Alexander Bennett is an English singer, author and media personality, who won the reality television series Big Brother 7 in 2006. He has Tourette's syndrome...

    , winner of series 7 of Big Brother UK
  • Phillip R. Bennett
    Phillip R. Bennett
    Phillip Roger Bennett was the embattled CEO of Refco, Inc. He is a British citizen who was educated at Cambridge University.In the 1970s, he worked for Chase Manhattan Bank. He joined Refco in 1981 and became the firm's Chief Financial Officer in 1983...

    , former CEO of Refco
  • R. B. Bennett
    R. B. Bennett
    Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, PC, KC was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He served as the 11th Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930, to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years...

    , former Prime Minister of Canada
  • Richard Bennett
    Richard Bennett (Governor)
    Richard Bennett was an English Governor of the Colony of Virginia.Born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, Bennett served as governor from 30 April 1652, until 2 March 1655...

    , Colonial Governor of Virginia
  • Richard Rodney Bennett
    Richard Rodney Bennett
    Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...

    , (born 1936) English composer
  • Robert Russell Bennett
    Robert Russell Bennett
    Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. In 1957 and 2008, Bennett received Tony Awards...

    , (1894–1981) American composer
  • Roy Bennett (disambiguation)
  • Samm Bennett
    Samm Bennett
    Samm Bennett , is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.Samm Bennett is a singer and songwriter, a drummer and percussionist, and a player of string instruments such as the stick dulcimer and the diddley bow...

    , American musician
  • Ted Bennett
    Ted Bennett
    William Weldon "Ted" Bennett, Jr. is an American politician. A Democrat, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1990–2002...

     (born 1940), American politician
  • Tony Bennett
    Tony Bennett
    Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....

     (born 1926), American singer
  • Tony Bennett (basketball)
    Tony Bennett (basketball)
    Anthony "Tony" Guy Bennett is an American college basketball coach and current head coach for the University of Virginia Cavaliers men's team. Previously, he played professionally for the NBA's Charlotte Hornets and was later head coach at Washington State University...

     (born 1969), American basketball player and coach
  • W. A. C. Bennett, former Premier of British Columbia, Canada
  • Wayne Bennett (disambiguation)
  • William Bennett (disambiguation)
    William Bennett (disambiguation)
    - Politicians :*William Bennett , American conservative pundit, political theorist and former Secretary of Education*W. A. C. Bennett , premier of British Columbia*William Humphrey Bennett , Canadian senator...

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