Beneš

Beneš (feminine Benešová) is a Czech and Slovak surname (a Czech shortened form of Benedict). Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan Benes (born 1972), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Andy Benes (born 1967), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Bedřich Beneš (1903 - 1968), Czech composer
• Bedřich Beneš (born 1967), Czech computer graphics researcher
• Edvard Beneš (1884 - 1948), leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement and the second President of Czechoslovakia
• Iveta Benešová (born 1983), Czech professional tennis player
• Jan Beneš (1936 - 2007), Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter
• Jan Beneš (born 1987), Czech orienteering competitor, and junior world champion
• Juraj Beneš (1940 - 2004), Slovak opera and orchestral composer
• Josef Beneš (1902 - 1984), Czech linguist
• Ladislav Beneš (born 1943) Czech handball player
• Lubomír Beneš (1935 – 1995) Czech animator, director and author
• Luděk Beneš Czechoslovak slalom canoer
• Marijan Beneš (born 1951), Yugoslav boxer
• Pavel Beneš chief designer at ČKD-Prague
• Petr Beneš, Czech volleyball player
• Thomas A. Benes, (1951-2014) United States Marine Corps general
• Václav Beneš Třebízský (1849-1884) Czech novelist
• Vaclav E. Benes (born 1925), American mathematician and probability theorist, developer of the Benes network
• Vít Beneš, Czech footballer
• Vojta Beneš (1878 - 1951), Czechoslovak educator and political leader and brother of Edvard Beneš

Fictional characters:

• Alton Benes, Elaine Benes's father on Seinfeld
• Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' character on Seinfeld
• Sandra Benes, a character on Space: 1999

See also

• Beneš-Mráz
• Beneš decrees, a series of laws enacted by the Czechoslovak government of exile during World War II in absence of Czechoslovak parliament
• Benes network, a type of switching network used in telecommunications
• Benesch (Gemanised form)
• Rudolf Benesh
• Benesh Movement Notation

• Beneș River (disambiguation)