Benet or Benét refers to:
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BeBe Zahara Benet
Nea Marshall Kudi Ngwa (born March 20, 1981), better known by his stage name BeBe Zahara Benet, is a Cameroonian-American drag queen, drag performer, television personality, and musician best known for winning the RuPaul's Drag Race (season 1), fi ...
(born 1980), Cameroonian-American drag queen
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Brenda Benet
Brenda Benet (born Brenda Ann Nelson; August 14, 1945 – April 7, 1982) was an American actress. She is best known for her roles on the soap operas ''The Young Marrieds'' (1965–1965) and ''Days of Our Lives'' (1979–1982). She was also fea ...
(1945–1982), American actress
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Christie Benet (1879–1951), American politician from South Carolina
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Eric Benét
Eric Benét Jordan (born October 15, 1966) is an American R&B singer-songwriter and musician. He has been nominated for four Grammy Awards.
Early life and education
Benét was born on October 15, 1966, in Mobile, Alabama. He was raised in Mi ...
(born 1966), American R&B and gospel singer
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Juan Benet
Juan Benet (7 October 1927 – 5 January 1993) was a Spanish novelist, dramatist and essayist who also worked as a civil engineer.
Early life
Benet was born in Madrid. At the start of the Spanish Civil War, his father was executed by a firing sq ...
(1927–1993), Spanish writer
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Leslie Z. Benet (born 1937), American pharmaceutical scientist
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Mordecai Benet
Mordecai ben Abraham Benet (, also Marcus Benedict; 1753–1829) was a Talmudist and chief rabbi of Moravia.
Biography
He was born at Csurgó, a small village in the county of Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary. As Benet's parents were very poor and con ...
(1753–1829) a Talmudist and chief rabbi of Moravia
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Robert Benet, 16th century English Protestant
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Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét ( ; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, '' John Brown's Body'', published in 1928, for which he receive ...
(1898–1943), American writer
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Stephen Vincent Benet (soldier) (1827–1895), career officer in the U.S. Army
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Sula Benet (1903–1982), Polish anthropologist
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, or Thomas Benet, 17th century Oxford academic
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Thomas Benet (martyr)
Thomas Benet (died 1531) from Cambridge, was an English Protestant martyr during the reign of King Henry VIII. In 1524, he moved to Torrington, North Devon, with his wife and family so that he could exercise his religious conscience more free ...
(died 1531), English Protestant martyr
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William Rose Benét
William Rose Benét (February 2, 1886 – May 4, 1950) was an American poet, writer, and editor. He was the older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét.
Early life and education
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Col. James Walker Benét ...
(1886–1950), American writer
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Benet, Vendée
Benet () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
The former communes of Lesson, Sainte-Christine and Aziré were joined to the commune of Benet in 1973.
Geography
Close to Niort () in Deux-S� ...
, a place in France
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Benet Academy
Benet Academy ( ) is a private, highly competitive, co-educational, college-preparatory, Benedictine high school in Lisle, Illinois, United States, overseen by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Illinois, Diocese of Joliet. Founded in 1886, ...
, in Lisle, Illinois, U.S.
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Benét Laboratories
Benét Laboratories, part of the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center, is the US Army's primary design, development, engineering and production and field support facility for large caliber armament systems, including ca ...
, U.S. Army technology center
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Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
''Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia'' is a reference work devoted to world literature. The first volume appeared in 1948, edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner William Rose Benét, older brother of the writer Stephen Vincent Benét. Benét set out to "pr ...
, a 1948 reference work
* Benet, a trade name for the anti-osteoporosis drug
Risedronic acid
Risedronic acid, often used as its sodium salt risedronate sodium, is a bisphosphonate. It slows down the cells which break down bone. It's used to treat or prevent osteoporosis, and treat Paget's disease of bone. It is taken by mouth.
It was p ...
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Bennet (disambiguation)
Bennet may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* Bennet (band), a 1990s British band
* Bennet and the Band, an Indian backing band
* Bennet–Veetraag, an Indian music director duo
* Bennet family, fictional characters from '' Pride and ...
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Bennett (disambiguation) Bennett may refer to:
People
*Bennett (name), including a list of people with the surname and given name
Places Canada
*Bennett, Alberta
*Bennett, British Columbia
*Bennett Lake, in the British Columbia and Yukon Territory
**Bennett Range
**Bennet ...
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Benett Benett is a variant form of the surname Bennett, a medieval form of Benedict.
People with the name
Notable people with the surname include:
* Etheldred Benett (1776–1835), English geologist
* Léon Benett (1839–1917), French painter
* Sarah ...
, a surname
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Bennette Bennette is a surname and unisex given name of English origin, a variant of Bennett. Notable people with the name include:
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* George Bennette (1901–1984), American baseball player
* Jewison Bennette (born 2004), Costa Rican footb ...
, a surname
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St Benet (disambiguation) St Benet (an abbreviation for St Benedict) or St Benet's may refer to:
* St Benet's, Paul's Wharf, a Welsh Anglican church in the City of London, England
* St Benet's Abbey, a medieval monastery in Norfolk, England
* St Benet's Chapel, Netherton, i ...
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