Benedict (surname)

Benedict is a common surname that comes from the Latin word meaning "blessed". The name was popularized by Saint Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the Order of Saint Benedict and thereby of Western Monasticism (Benedictine).

In other languages

• Aragonese: Benedet
• Arabic: مبارك ("Mubarak", meaning 'blessed')
• Breton: Benead
• Bulgarian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Catalan : Benet
• Croatian : Benedikt
• Danish: Benedikt, Bendt, Bent
• Czech: Benedikt, Beneš
• Dutch: Benedictus
• English: Benedict
• Estonian: Pent
• Filipino: Benito
• Finnish: Pentti
• French: Bénédicte, Benoîte (female), Benoît (male)
• Galician: Bieito
• German: Benedikt
• Greek: Βενέδικτος (Venediktos)
• Hebrew: ברוך (ba-ruch, meaning 'blessed')
• Hungarian: Benedek
• Icelandic: Benedikt
• Italian: Benedetto, Benetto, Benito
• Indonesian: Benediktus
• 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: Венедикт (Venedikt)
• Serbian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Slovak: Benedikt
• Slovenian: Benedikt
• Spanish: Benedicto, Benito
• Swedish: Benedikt, Benkt, Bengt
• Ukrainian: Бенедікт (Benedikt)
• Yiddish: Benesh

People with the surname Benedict

• Brooks Benedict (1896-1968), American actor of the silent and sound film era
• Bruce Benedict (born 1955), American former professional baseball player, coach and scout
• Charles Benedict (disambiguation), multiple people
• Cleve Benedict (b. 1935), U.S. Representative from West Virginia 2nd District, 1981-83
• Clare Benedict (1870–1961), American author
• Clint Benedict (1892–1976), Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender
• Dirk Benedict (pseudonym, born 1945), American actor
• Ed Benedict (1912–2006), American animator and layout artist
• Erastus C. Benedict (1800–1880), New York politician
• Howard Benedict, lacrosse coach
• Jacques Benedict (1879–1948), American architect
• John Benedict (1649–1729), member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk
• Sir Julius Benedict (1804–1885), English composer and conductor
• Moby Benedict (born 1935), American baseball player and coach
• Paul Benedict (1938–2008), American actor
• Paul K. Benedict (1912–1997), American psychiatrist and linguist
• Pinckney Benedict (born 1964), Writer of Appalachian fiction
• Richard Benedict (1920–1984), Italian-born television and film actor and director
• Rob Benedict (born 1970), American stage and screen actor
• Ruth Benedict (1887–1948), American anthropologist
• Stanley Rossiter Benedict (1884–1936), American chemist who invented Benedict's reagent, a test for reducing sugars
• Thomas Benedict (1617–1689), early settler in colonial New York, and Connecticut; member of the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk (1670, 1675)
• Thomas Benedict (II) (1682–1763), member of the Connecticut House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk (1737, 1740, and 1744)
• William Benedict (1917–1999), actor

Fictional characters

• Julius and Vincent Benedict, characters in Twins
• Terry Benedict, character in Ocean's Eleven
• Phillium Benedict, villain of Recess: School's Out