Beneš (feminine: Benešová) is a
Czech surname
Czech names are composed of a given name and a family name (surname). Czechs typically get one given name – additional names may be chosen by themselves upon baptism but they generally use one. With marriage, the bride typically adopts the bride ...
. The name originated as a pet form of the given names
Benedikt and
Benjamin
Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twe ...
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The
Germanized form is
Benesch and the Anglicized form is
Benesh. Notable people with the surname include:
Sports
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Alan Benes (born 1972), American baseball pitcher
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Andy Benes (born 1967), American baseball pitcher
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Hana Benešová (born 1975), Czech athlete
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Ivan Beneš (born 1960), Czech basketball player and coach
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Iveta Benešová
Iveta Benešová () (formerly Melzer, ; born 1 February 1983) is a Czech former tennis player. She began playing tennis aged seven and turned professional in 1998. She won two WTA Tour singles and 14 doubles tournaments, and one Grand Slam tit ...
(born 1983), Czech tennis player
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Jan Beneš (orienteer) (born 1987), Czech orienteer
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Ladislav Beneš
Ladislav Beneš (born 9 July 1943 in Zlín) is a Czech handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
He was part of the Czechoslovak team which won the silver medal at the Munich Games. He played all six matches and scored fourteen ...
(born 1943), Czech handball player
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Luděk Beneš (1937–2016), Czech slalom canoer
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Marijan Beneš (1951–2018), Bosnian boxer
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Petr Beneš (born 1974), Czech volleyball player
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Vít Beneš (born 1988), Czech footballer
Other
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Bedrich Benes (born 1967), Czech-American computer scientist
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Božena Benešová
Božena Benešová, née Zapletalová (30 November 1873 – 8 April 1936), was a Czechs, Czech author and poet whose work is considered to have been at the forefront of psychological fiction, psychological prose. The greater part of her youth was ...
(1873–1936), Czech writer and poet
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Edvard Beneš
Edvard Beneš (; 28 May 1884 – 3 September 1948) was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his second stint, he led the Czec ...
(1884–1948), Czech politician, president of Czechoslovakia
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Emilie Beneš Brzezinski (1932–2022), Swiss-American sculptor
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Jan Beneš (writer)
Jan Beneš (21 March 1936 – 1 June 2007) was a Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter. He was also using the pseudonyms Milan Štěpka, Bobisud Mihule, Mojmír Čada, Ing. Čada, JAB, JeBe, Světlana and others. He is an author of ...
(1936–2007), Czech writer, translator and publicist
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Josef Beneš (1902–1984), Czech linguist
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Juraj Beneš (1940–2004), Slovak composer and pianist
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Libuše Benešová (born 1948), Czech politician
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Lubomír Beneš Lubomír Beneš (7 November 1935 – 12 September 1995) was a Czech animator, director, and author, best known as the co-creator of '' Pat & Mat'', an animated series about two highly inventive, yet incredibly clumsy handymen neighbours.
Life and ...
(1935–1995), Czech animator, director and author
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Marie Benešová (1948–2024), Czech politician and lawyer
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Pavel Beneš
Pavel Beneš (14 June 1894 in Prague – 31 May 1956 in Prague) was a chief designer at ČKD-Praga, one of the largest engineering companies in the former Czechoslovakia and today's Czech Republic.
Beneš was first a founder and chief designer at ...
(1894–1956), Czech aircraft engineer
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Svatopluk Beneš
Svatopluk Beneš (24 February 1918 – 27 April 2007) was a Czechoslovak film actor. He appeared in 90 films and television shows between 1934 and 2003.
Selected filmography
* '' Pacientka Dr. Hegla'' (1940)
* '' Pohádka máje'' (1940)
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(1918–2007), Czech actor
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Thomas A. Benes (1951–2014), American military leader
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Václav Beneš Třebízský
Václav Beneš Třebízský (27 February 1849 – 20 June 1884) was a Czechs, Czech priest and writer. Despite his short life, he was a very prolific author and was one of the most popular Czech writers of his time. He wrote mainly historical nov ...
(1849–1884), Czech novelist
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Václav E. Beneš
Václav Edvard "Vic" Beneš (born January 1, 1931) is a Czech-American mathematician known for his contributions to the theory of stochastic processes, queueing theory and control theory, as well as the design of telecommunications switches.
He ...
(born 1931), Czech-American mathematician
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Vojta Beneš
Vojta Beneš (11 May 1878 – 20 November 1951) was a Czech educator, political leader in Czechoslovakia and brother of Edvard Beneš.
Life and career
Vojta Beneš was born in Kožlany, Bohemia, then a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Be ...
(1878–1951), Czech educator and political leader
Fictional characters
*Elaine Benes a character in ''
Seinfeld
''Seinfeld'' ( ) is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, with a total of nine seasons consisting of List of Seinfeld episodes, 180 episodes. It ...
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*Jan Benes, a character in ''
Fantastic Voyage
''Fantastic Voyage'' is a 1966 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. The film is about a submarine crew who is shrunk to microsco ...
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*Sandra Benes, a character in ''
Space: 1999''
See also
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Benešov (disambiguation)
References
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Czech-language surnames