Beneš

Beneš (feminine Benešová) is a Czech and Slovak surname, it may refer to:

people

• Alan Benes (born 1972), American Major League Baseball pitcher.
• Andy Benes (born 1967), American Major League Baseball pitcher.
• Edvard Beneš (1884 - 1948), leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement and the second President of Czechoslovakia.
• Iveta Benešová (born 1983), Czech professional tennis player.
• Jan Beneš (1936 - 2007), Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter
• Jan Beneš (born 1987), Czech orienteering competitor, and junior world champion.
• Juraj Beneš (1940 - 2004), Slovak opera and orchestral composer.
• Josef Beneš (1902 - 1984), Czech linguist.
• Ladislav Beneš (born 1943) Czech handball player.
• Lubomír Beneš (1935 – 1995) Czech animator, director and author.
• Luděk Beneš Czechoslovak slalom canoer.
• Marijan Beneš (born 1951), Yugoslav boxer.
• Pavel Beneš chief designer at ČKD-Praga.
• Václav Beneš Třebízský (1849-1884) Czech novelist.
• Vaclav E. Benes (born 1925), American mathematician and probability theorist, developer of the Benes network.
• Vít Beneš, Czech footballer.
• Vojta Beneš (1878 - 1951), Czechoslovak educator and political leader and brother of Edvard Beneš.

fictional characters

• Alton Benes, Elaine Benes's father on Seinfeld
• Elaine (Marie) Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' character on Seinfeld

Benesh

• Rudolf Benesh
• Benesh Movement Notation

See also

• Beneš-Mráz
• Beneš decrees, a series of laws enacted by the Czechoslovak government of exile during World War II in absence of Czechoslovak parliament
• Benes network, a type of switching network used in telecommunications
• Benesch (Gemanised form)