Beneš
Beneš is common Czech and Slovak surname. The surname was derived from the shortened Czech form of the given name Benedict. In the old Czech orthography the word was written as Beness, the Germanized form is Benesch.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alan Benes, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Andy Benes, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Bedřich Beneš, Czech-American computer scientist
- Božena Benešová, Czech poet and author
- Edvard Beneš, leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement and the second President of Czechoslovakia
- Emilie Benes Brzezinski an American sculptor and the widow of Zbigniew Brzezinski.
- Hana Benešová, Czech athlete
- Ivan Beneš, Czech basketball player and coach
- Iveta Benešová, Czech professional tennis player
- Jan Beneš , Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter
- Jan Beneš, Czech orienteering competitor, and junior world champion
- Juraj Beneš, Slovak opera and orchestral composer
- Josef Beneš, Czech linguist
- Ladislav Beneš Czech handball player
- Libuše Benešová, Czech politician
- Lubomír Beneš Czech animator, director and author
- Luděk Beneš Czechoslovak slalom canoer
- Marie Benešová, Czech politician
- Marijan Beneš, Yugoslav boxer
- Pavel Beneš chief designer at ČKD-Prague
- Petr Beneš, Czech volleyball player
- Svatopluk Beneš,, Czech actor
- Thomas A. Benes, United States Marine Corps general
- Václav Beneš Třebízský Czech novelist
- Vaclav E. Benes, American mathematician and probability theorist, developer of the Benes network
- Vít Beneš, Czech footballer
- Vojta Beneš, Czechoslovak educator and political leader and brother of Edvard Beneš
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