Benedict (given name)
Benedict is a masculine given name of Latin origin, meaning "blessed". Etymologically, it is derived from the Latin words bene and dicere, i.e. "well spoken". The name was borne by Saint Benedict of Nursia, often called the founder of Western Christian monasticism.
List of people with the given name Benedict, Benedikt, Bénédict, or Bennedict
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- Benedict of Nursia, Italian monk, founder of the Benedictine order of monasticism
- Benedict of Aniane, Benedictine monk and monastic reformer
- Benedict Biscop, Anglo-Saxon abbot
- Benedict (bishop of Milan), archbishop of Milan
- Benedict of Szkalka, Hungarian Benedictine monk
- Benedict the Bridge-Builder, also known as Bénézet
- Benedict the Moor, also known as Benedict the Black
- Benedict Joseph Labre, French Franciscan mendicant
- Benedict Menni, Italian priest
Popes and antipopes
- Pope Benedict I, pope from 575 to 579
- Pope Benedict II, pope in 684/685, also a saint
- Pope Benedict III, pope from 855 to 858
- Pope Benedict IV, pope from 900 to 903
- Pope Benedict V, pope in 964, in opposition to Pope Leo VIII
- Pope Benedict VI, pope in 973/974
- Pope Benedict VII, pope from 974 to 983
- Pope Benedict VIII, pope from 1012 to 1024
- Pope Benedict IX, pope on three occasions between 1032 and 1048
- Antipope Benedict X
- Pope Benedict XI, pope from 1303 to 1304
- Pope Benedict XII, pope from 1334 to 1342
- Antipope Benedict XIII
- Antipope Benedict XIV, the name used by two closely related minor antipopes of the 15th century
- Pope Benedict XIII, pope from 1724 to 1730
- Pope Benedict XIV, pope from 1740 to 1758
- Pope Benedict XV, pope from 1914 to 1922
- Pope Benedict XVI, pope from 2005 to 2013
Other
- Benedict (archbishop of Edessa), first archbishop of Edessa of the Latin rite
- Benedict (canon of St. Peter's), religious and liturgical writer of Rome
- Benedict of Bari, monk and religious author
- Benedict of Poland, Polish Franciscan friar, traveler, explorer, and interpreter
- Benedict I of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
- Benedict de Spinoza, Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi descent
- Benedict Akwuegbu, Nigerian footballer
- Benedict Anderson, Irish political scientist and historian of South East Asia
- Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter, Austrian Baroque composer
- Benedict Arnold, American general who after 1779 shifted his allegiance to the British
- Benedict Arnold (congressman), American politician from New York
- Benedict Balansa, French botanist
- Benedict Birnberg, British solicitor and human rights campaigner
- Benedict Campbell, Canadian actor
- Benedict Chifley, Australian Prime Minister
- Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
- Benedict Daswa, South African school principal and mob murder victim
- Benedykt Dobszewicz, Lithuanian philosopher and physicist
- Benedikt Doll, German biathlete
- Benedikt Dreyer, German sculptor, carver and painter
- Benedict Erofeev, Russian writer and Soviet dissident
- Benedict Fogelberg, Swedish sculptor
- Benedict Friedlaender, German zoologist and sexologist
- Benedict Goëz, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and explorer
- Benedict Gregorios, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Malankara Church
- Benedict Gross, American mathematician
- Benedikt Hertel, German bobsledder
- Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner, Swiss botanist and plant taxonomist
- Benedikt Höwedes, German footballer
- Benedict Iroha, Nigerian footballer
- Benedict Jackson, English golfer
- Benedikt Jóhannesson, Icelandic publisher, businessman and politician
- Benedict Kiely, Irish writer and broadcaster
- Benedict F. Kiernan, American historian
- Benedikt Kotruljević, Ragusan Renaissance humanist
- Benedikt Kuripečič, Slovene diplomat
- Benedikt Lampert, Liechtensteiner bobsledder
- Benedikt Livshits, Russian poet, writer and translator
- Bennedict Mathurin, Canadian basketball player
- Benedict McCarthy, South African footballer
- Benedict Morel, French psychiatrist
- Benedikt Niese, German classical scholar
- Benedikt Rejt, Bohemian architect
- Benedikt Roezl, Austrian botanist
- Benedict Samuel, Australian actor
- Benedikt Schack, Bohemian composer and tenor
- Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal, Prime Minister of Iceland
- Benedict Stilling, German anatomist and surgeon
- Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, South African poet, novelist, and educator
- Benedikt Waldeck, Prussian politician
- Benedict Wells, German-Swiss novelist
- Benedict Wong, English actor
Fictional characters
- Benedict, a chicken villager from the Animal Crossing series
- 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
- Benedict Bridgerton, a character in the period drama Bridgerton, as well as the novels the television series is based on