Bentham (surname)
Bentham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Billy Bentham, English rugby league footballer of the 1920s
- Charles Bentham, 18th-century English shipwright in Dutch service
- Craig Bentham, English footballer
- Edward Bentham, English theologian
- Ethel Bentham, Irish doctor, politician and suffragette
- George Bentham, English botanist
- George Bentham, British operatic tenor
- George Jackson Bentham, British politician
- Howard Bentham, British radio personality
- Isaac Bentham, British water polo player
- James Bentham, English clergyman and historian of Ely Cathedral
- Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and jurist who developed utilitarianism
- John Bentham, English association footballer
- Joseph Bentham, Church of England minister and writer on theology
- Lee Bentham, Canadian former racing driver
- Mary Sophia Bentham, British botanist
- Nat Bentham, English rugby league footballer
- Percy George Bentham, English sculptor
- Phil Bentham, English rugby league referee
- Rosie Bentham, English actress
- Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer
- Stan Bentham, English association footballer
- Thomas Bentham, Bishop of Coventry
- Trevor Bentham, English stage manager and screenwriter
- Jeremy Bentham (Lost), another name for the character John Locke in Lost
- Karla Bentham, a character in the British television series ''Waterloo Road''