Benito (name)

Benito is the Spanish form 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 (born 1966), football referee
• Benito Arias Montano (1527–1598), Spanish orientalist
• Benito Carbone (born 1971), retired Italian professional football player
• Benito Cereno (writer), writer of comic books
• Benito de San Juan (died 1809), Spanish military officer
• Benito de Soto (1805–1835), Spanish pirate
• Benito Floro (born 1952), retired Spanish football manager
• Benito Garozzo (born 1927), Italian bridge player
• Benito Gutmacher (born 1950), Argentinian actor und theatre director
• Benito Jacovitti (1923–1997), Italian comic artist
• Benito Jerónimo Feijoo e Montenegro (1676–1764), Galician neoclassical monk and scholar
• Benito Juárez (1806–1872), President of Mexico
• Benito Legarda (1853–1915), Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands
• Benito Lorenzi (1925–2007), Italian football player
• Benito Lynch (1885–1951), Argentine novelist and short-story writer
• Benito Martínez (1880–2006), native of Cuba who claimed to be the world's oldest living person
• Benito Martinez (actor) (born 1971), American actor
• Benito Martinez (soldier) (1932–1952), United States Army soldier
• Benito Medero (1922–2007), Uruguayan politician
• Benito Mussolini (1883–1945), prime minister and dictator of Italy
• Benito Pérez Brito (1747–1813), Spanish military officer and colonial official
• Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920), Spanish realist novelist
• Benito Perojo (1894–1974), successful Spanish film director and film producer
• Benito Quinquela Martín (1890–1977), Argentine painter
• Benito Rosales, Nicaraguan head of state
• Benito Santiago (born 1965), former MLB baseball catcher
• Benito Stefanelli (1929–1999), Italian film actor and stuntman
• Benito Vicetto Pérez (19th century), Galacian writer
• Benito Zambrano (born 1965), Spanish screenwriter and film director
• Cesar Benito Cabrera, former United States Ambassador to the island nations of Mauritius and the Seychelles
• Emanuel Benito Rivas (born 1983), Argentine football midfielder

People with the surname

• Elizabeth Odio Benito (born 1939), Vice-President of the International Criminal Court
• Gabriel R. G. Benito (born ca 1962), Norwegian economists
• Gregorio Benito (born 1946), a retired Spanish footballer who played for Real Madrid
• Teófilo Benito (1966–2004), Spanish middle distance runner
• Eduardo Benito (1891-1981), an icon of the Art Deco era from Spain. Designed many covers for Vanity Fair and Vogue in the 20s