Benedict (given name)

Benedict is a masculine given name, which comes from Late Latin word Benedictus, meaning blessed.^[1] Etymologically it is derived from the Latin words bene ('good') and dicte ('speak') i.e. “well spoken”. The name was borne by Saint Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the Order of Saint Benedict and thereby of Western Monasticism. The Italian equivalent is Benedetto.

List of people with the given name Benedict

Saints

• Benedict of Aniane (747–821), Benedictine monk and monastic reformer, who left a large imprint on the religious practice of the Carolingian Empire
• Benedict Biscop (628–690), Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory (where he also founded the famous library) and was considered a saint after his death
• Benedict the Bridge-Builder, also known as Bénézet
• Benedict (bishop of Milan) (died 732), archbishop of Milan from c. 685 to c. 732
• Benedict Joseph Labre (1748–1783), French mendicant, Franciscan tertiary and Roman Catholic saint
• Benedict the Moor (1526–1589), also known as Benedict the Black
• Benedict of Nursia (480–c. 540), Christian saint, honored by the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students
• Benedict of Szkalka, born Stojislav in Nitra (Nyitra), Hungarian Kingdom, was a Benedictine monk and Roman Catholic saint

Popes

• Pope Benedict I (died 579), head of the Catholic Church from 2 June 575 to his death in 579
• Pope Benedict II (635–685), also a saint
• Pope Benedict III (died 858), head of the Catholic Church from 29 September 855 to his death in 858
• Pope Benedict IV (died 903), head of the Catholic Church from 1 February 900 to his death in 903
• Pope Benedict V (died 965), head of the Catholic Church from 22 May to 23 June 964, in opposition to Pope Leo VIII
• Pope Benedict VI (died 974), head of the Catholic Church from 19 January 973 to his death in 974
• Pope Benedict VII (died 983), head of the Catholic Church from October 974 to his death in 983
• Pope Benedict VIII (died 1024), head of the Catholic Church from 18 May 1012 to his death in 1024
• Pope Benedict IX (c. 1010–1056), in Rome, was the head of the Catholic Church on three occasions between October 1032 and July 1048
• Pope Benedict XI (1240–1304), head of the Catholic Church from 22 October 1303 to his death in 1304
• Pope Benedict XII (c. 1280–1342), head of the Catholic Church from 20 December 1334 to his death in 1342. He was the third Avignon Pope
• Pope Benedict XIII (1649–1730), later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O.P., was the head of the Catholic Church from 29 May 1724 to his death in 1730
• Pope Benedict XIV (1675–1758), head of the Catholic Church from 17 August 1740 to his death in 1758
• Pope Benedict XV (1854–1922), head of the Catholic Church from 3 September 1914 to his death in 1922
• Pope Benedict XVI (born 1927), Roman Pontiff Emeritus

Antipopes

• Antipope Benedict X (c. 1000–c. 1070), son of Guido (the youngest son of Alberic III, Count of Tusculum), a brother of the notorious Pope Benedict IX (deposed in 1048), a member of the dominant political dynasty in the region at that time
• Antipope Benedict XIII (1328–1423), known as el Papa Luna in Spanish, was an Aragonese nobleman, who is officially considered by the Catholic Church to be an antipope
• Antipope Benedict XIV, the name used by two closely related minor antipopes of the 15th century

Other

• Benedict Biscop (c. 628 – 690) Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory
• Benedict of Peterborough (died 1194), Abbot of Peterborough.
• Benedict of Poland (ca. 1200 – ca. 1280 Polish Franciscan friar, traveler, explorer, and interpreter.
• Benedict of Soracte tenth-century Italian chronicler,
• Benedict, Duke of Finland (1254 - 25 May 1291), Swedish prelate and duke.
• Benedict Arnold (governor) (1615 – 1678), president and then governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
• Benedict Arnold (1741–1801), American general who served the cause of the American Revolution until 1779, when he shifted his allegiance to the British.
• Benedict Arnold (congressman) (1780 – 1849), American politician from New York, and a member of the House of Representatives.
• Benedict Joseph Semmes (1789–1863), American politician
• Bénédict Morel (1809 – 1873) was a French psychiatrist
• Benedikt Roezl (1823–1885), Czech botanist
• Benedict Crowell (1869 -1952) United States military officer and politician
• Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner (1873-1959) was a Swiss botanist and plant taxonomist.
• Ben Chifley (Joseph Benedict Chifley, 1885–1951), Prime Minister of Australia
• Benedict J. Semmes, Jr. (1913–1994), American admiral
• Benedict Anderson (born 1936), American professor emeritus of international studies at Cornell University
• Benedict Nightingale (born 1939), British journalist and theatre critic
• Princess Benedikte of Denmark (born 1944), HRH The Prince Consort
• Benedict Allen (born 1960) is a British writer, traveller and adventurer
• Benedict Wong (born 1971), British actor
• Benedict "Ben" Kay (born 1975), retired England rugby union international
• Benedict Cumberbatch (born 1976), English actor
• Benedikt Höwedes (born 1988), German footballer

Fictional characters

• Benedick, a character from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
• Benedict of Amber, from the Chronicles of Amber
• Bénédict the title character in Berlioz's opera Béatrice et Bénédict

In other languages

• Aragonese: Benedet
• Arabic: مبارك ("Mubarak", meaning 'blessed')
• Belarusian: Бэнэдыкт ( Benedykt)
• Breton: Benead
• Bulgarian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Catalan : Benet
• Croatian: Benedikt, Benko
• Czech: Benedikt, Beneš
• Danish: Benedikt, Bendt, Bent
• Dutch: Benedictus
• English: Benedict
• Esperanto: Benedikto
• Filipino: Benito
• Finnish: Pentti
• French: Bénédicte, Benoîte (female), Benoît (male)
• Galician: Bieito, Bento
• Georgian: ბენედიქტ (Benedik’t)
• German: Benedikt
• Greek: Βενέδικτος (Venediktos)
• Hebrew: ברוך (ba-ruch, meaning 'blessed')
• Hungarian: Benedek
• Icelandic: Benedikt
• Indonesian: Benediktus
• Irish: Beinidict
• Italian: Benedetto
• Japanese: ベネディクト ( Benedikuto)
• Kannada: ಬೆನೆಡಿಕ್ಟ್ (Beneḍikṭ)
• Korean: 베네딕트 (Benedigteu)
• Latin: Benedictus
• Latvian: Benedikts, Bendiks, Benis
• Lithuanian: Benediktas
• Macedonian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Norwegian: Bendik, Benedikt, Bengt
• Polish: Benedykt
• Portuguese: Bento, Benedito, Benedita (feminine)
• Provençal: Bénézet
• Romanian: Benedict
• Russian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Serbian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Slovak: Benedikt, Beňadik
• Slovenian: Benedikt
• Spanish: Benedicto, Benito
• Swedish: Benedikt, Benkt, Bengt
• Thai: เบเนดิกต์ (Benedikt̒)
• Ukrainian: Бенедікт (Benedikt), Бенедикт ( Benedykt)
• Yiddish: Benesh

References