Benedict

Benedict is a masculine given name. It comes from the Latin benedictus, meaning "blessed".

Benedict most commonly refers to Saint Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the Order of Saint Benedict and thereby of Western Monasticism. It may also may refer to:

Schools

• Benedict International Education Group

People

Saints

• Benedict of Aniane
• Benedict Biscop
• Benedict the Bridge-Builder, also known as Bénézet
• Benedict Crispus
• Benedict Joseph Labre
• Benedict the Moor, also known as Benedict the Black
• Benedict of Nursia
• Benedict of Szkalka

Popes

• Pope Benedict I
• Pope Benedict II, also a saint
• Pope Benedict III
• Pope Benedict IV
• Pope Benedict V
• Pope Benedict VI
• Pope Benedict VII
• Pope Benedict VIII
• Pope Benedict IX
• Pope Benedict XI
• Pope Benedict XII
• Pope Benedict XIII
• Pope Benedict XIV
• Pope Benedict XV
• Pope Benedict XVI (born 1927), current pontiff

Antipopes

• Antipope Benedict X
• Antipope Benedict XIII
• Antipope Benedict XIV

Other

Given name

• Benedict Anderson, Professor Emeritus of International Studies at Cornell University
• Benedict Arnold, American general
• Benedict Carpenter, British artist (Sculptor)
• Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
• Joseph Benedict Chifley, former Prime Minister of Australia
• Benedikt Roezl, Czech botanist
• Princess Benedikte of Denmark

Surname

• Aaron Benedict (1785-1873), Member of Connecticut state house of representatives; member of Connecticut state senate 5th District, 1858. Businessman; founder and president of Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Co., predecessor of Timex.
• Al Benedict, Pennsylvania state auditor general; elected 1980
• Bruce Benedict, American former professional baseball player, coach and scout
• Charles Benedict (disambiguation), multiple people
• Cleveland Keith Benedict (b. 1935), U.S. Representative from West Virginia 2nd District, 1981-83; West Virginia commissioner of agriculture, 1989-92; member of Republican National Committee from West Virginia, 1991
• Clare Benedict, American author
• Clint Benedict, Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender
• Dirk Benedict (pseudonym), American actor
• Ed Benedict, American animator and layout artist
• George Wyllys Benedict (1796-1871), Professor of Mathematics & Natural Philosophy, President of the University of Vermont, 1825-1847
• Howard Benedict, a lacrosse coach
• Jacques Benedict, American architect
• Sir Julius Benedict, English composer and conductor
• Lawrence Neal Benedict (b. 1942), Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Cape Verde, 1996
• Paul Benedict (1938-2008), American actor
• Pinckney Benedict, Writer of Appalachian fiction
• Shajulin Benedict (2004), Grid/Cloud Researcher
• Richard Benedict, Italian-born television and film actor and director
• Rob Benedict, American stage and screen actor
• Roger Benedict, violinist and conductor
• Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist
• Samuel Benedict (1645-1719) (1645-1719), Cofounder of Danbury, Connecticut
• Stanley Rossiter Benedict, the American chemist who invented Benedict's reagent, a test for reducing sugars
• Terry Joseph Benedict, Rear Admiral, US Navy; Director of Strategic Systems Programs
• William Benedict, actor

In other languages

• Aragonese: Benedet
• Breton: Benead
• Bulgarian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Catalan : Benet
• Croatian : Benedikt
• Danish: Benedikt, Bendt, Bent
• Czech: Benedikt, Beneš
• Dutch: Benedictus
• English: Benedict
• Finnish: Pentti
• French: Bénédicte (female), Benoît (male)
• Galician: Bieito
• German: Benedikt
• Greek: Βενέδικτος (Venediktos)
• Hungarian: Benedek
• Italian: Benedetto, Benetto, Benito
• Indonesian: Benediktus
• Latin: Benedictus
• Latvian: Benedikts, Bendiks, Benis
• Lithuanian: Benediktas
• Macedonian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Norwegian: Bendik, Benedikt, Bengt
• Polish: Benedykt
• Portuguese: Benedicto, Benedito, Bento
• Provençal: Bénézet
• Romanian: Benedict
• Russian: Венедикт (Venedikt)
• Serbian: Бенедикт (Benedikt)
• Slovak: Benedikt
• Slovenian: Benedikt
• Spanish: Benedicto, Benito
• Swedish: Benedikt, Benkt, Bengt
• Ukrainian: Бенедікт (Benedikt)
• Yiddish: Benesh

Fictional

• Bénédict the title character in Berlioz's opera Béatrice et Bénédict
• Benedick, a character from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The character is the source of the word "benedict", meaning a newly married man who has long been a bachelor
• Terry Benedict, a villain in Ocean's Eleven
• Benedict of Amber, from the Chronicles of Amber

Places

• Benedict College, South Carolina, USA
• Benedict (crater), a lunar crater
• Benedict Glacier, on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
• Benedict, Kansas, USA
• Benedict, Maryland, USA
• Benedict, Nebraska, USA
• Benedikt, Slovenia, a municipality in Slovenia
• St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School (disambiguation), several places
• Saint Benedict, Oregon, USA
• San Benedicto Island, Mexico

Miscellaneous

• Eggs Benedict, a breakfast dish
• Benedict's reagent, a test for aldehydes in Chemistry

See also

• São Bento (disambiguation), Portuguese for Saint Benedict, several meanings
• Benediction
• Order of Saint Benedict