Benito (name)
Benito is the Spanish and the Italian forms of Benedict and is both a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:People with the given name
- Benito Archundia, football referee
- Benito Arias Montano, Spanish orientalist
- Benito Carbone, retired Italian professional football player
- Benito Cereno, writer of comic books
- Benito de San Juan, Spanish military officer
- Benito de Soto, Spanish pirate
- Benito Floro, retired Spanish football manager
- Benito Garozzo, Italian bridge player
- Benito Gutmacher, Argentinian actor and theatre director
- Benito Jacovitti, Italian comic artist
- Benito Jerónimo Feijoo e Montenegro, Galician neoclassical monk and scholar
- Benito Juárez, President of Mexico
- Benito Legarda, Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands
- Benito Lorenzi, Italian football player
- Benito Lynch, Argentine novelist and short-story writer
- Benito Martínez, native of Cuba who claimed to be the world's oldest living person
- Benito Martinez , American actor
- Benito Martinez , United States Army soldier
- Benito Medero, Uruguayan politician
- Benito Mussolini, prime minister and dictator of Italy
- Benito Pérez Brito, Spanish military officer and colonial official
- Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish realist novelist
- Benito Perojo, successful Spanish film director and film producer
- Benito Quinquela Martín, Argentine painter
- Benito Rosales, Nicaraguan head of state
- Benito Santiago, former MLB baseball catcher
- Benito Stefanelli, Italian film actor and stuntman
- Benito Sylvain, Haitian journalist, diplomat, lawyer and one of the organizers of the 1900 Pan-African Conference.
- Benito Vicetto Pérez, Galician writer
- Benito Zambrano, Spanish screenwriter and film director
- Emanuel Benito Rivas, Argentine football midfielder
People with the surname
- César Benito Cabrera, former United States Ambassador to the island nations of Mauritius and the Seychelles
- Eduardo Benito, Spanish illustrator and painter
- Elizabeth Odio Benito, Vice-President of the International Criminal Court
- Gabriel R. G. Benito, Norwegian economist
- Gregorio Benito, a retired Spanish footballer who played for Real Madrid
- Teófilo Benito, Spanish middle distance runner
