Benda

Benda may refer to:

Places

• Benda, Sirampog, a subdistrict of Sirampog, Central Java, Indonesia
• Benda, Tangerang, a subdistrict of Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia
• Benda, Guinea
• Qulbəndə (Gyul'benda, Gülbəndə, Qulbəndə), a village and municipality in the Agdash Rayon, Azerbaijan

People

A family of musicians originally from Bohemia, chiefly:

• František Benda ("Franz Benda") (1709–1786), Bohemian violinist and composer
• Jiří Antonín Benda ("Georg Anton Benda") (1722–1795), Bohemian kapellmeister, violinist and composer

Other family members included:

• Anna Franziska Benda (1728–1781), soprano, daughter of Jan Jiří
• Carl Hermann Heinrich Benda (1748–1836), violinist, composer, and son of František
• Felix Benda (1708–1768), Bohemian composer
• Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda (de) (1745–1814), violinist, composer (known for the Singspiel "Das Blumenmädchen"), son of František, born in Potsdam
• Friedrich Ernst Benda (1749–1785), violinist, harpsichordist, and son of Joseph
• Friedrich Ludwig Benda (1752–1796), composer, violinist, and son of Georg
• Jan Jiří Benda (cz) (1686–1757), musician and father of František, Johann, Jiří Antonín, Joseph, and Anna
• Johnann Benda (de) (also known as Jan Jiří Benda) (1713–1752), violinist, composer, and son of Jan Jiří
• Joseph Benda (1724–1804), musician and son of Jan Jiří
• Juliane Benda, (1752–1783), singer, composer, and daughter of František; later known as Juliane Reichardt
• Maria Carolina Benda (1742–1820), singer, composer, and daughter of František

Other people named Benda:

• Adolf Benda (1845–1878), a Bohemian regional historian and jewelry craftsman
• Antal Benda (1910–1997), a Hungarian field handball player
• Břetislav Benda (1897–1983), a Czech sculptor
• Christian Benda, a Czech cellist, composer, and conductor
• Madame D'Ora-Benda, or Dora Kallmus, (1881–1963), photographer
• Ernst Benda (1925–2009), a German politician and jurist
• Hans von Benda (1888–1972), a German conductor
• Jan Benda (born 1972, Reef, Belgium), a Czech-German ice hockey player
• Jan Benda (1897–1967), a Czech artist
• Jean Benda (de) (1874–1949), a German violinist
• John Benda (born 1947), an American professional golfer playing on the European Seniors Tour
• Julien Benda (1867–1956), a Jewish French philosopher and novelist
• Sebastian Benda (de) (1926–2003), a Swiss pianist and composer
• Vaclav Benda (1946–1999), a Czech political activist and mathematician
• Władysław Teodor "W.T." Benda (1873, Poznań - 1948, Newark, New Jersey), a Polish-American painter and illustrator

Other

• 734 Benda, a minor planet
• Prachum Benda or Pchum Ben. Ancestors' day in Cambodia.
• Staff Benda Bilili, a group of Congolese street musicians. They live around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa
• "The Prisoner of Benda", an episode of Futurama
• Benda Chamber Orchestra, a Czech amateur music ensemble

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