Bennet (surname)

Bennet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Charles Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville
• Douglas J. Bennet, president of Wesleyan University
• Eduardo Bennet, soccer player
• Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington
• Isabella Bennet, 2nd Countess of Arlington
• John Bennet (disambiguation)
  • John Bennet (composer) (c. 1575 – after 1614), English composer
  • John Bennet (judge) (1552/3–1627), English judge and MP accused of corruption
  • John Bennet (preacher) (1714–1759), English Methodist preacher
  • John Bennet (MP) (1628–1663), English landowner and politician
  • John Bennet (writer) (died 1686), English writer
  • John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston (1616–1695), English statesman
  • John Bennet (archaeologist), British archaeologist and Professor of Aegean Archaeology at Sheffield University
  • John Bennet of the Bennet baronets
• Meg Bennet, screenwriter, actress
• Michael Bennet, United States Senator from Colorado
• Spencer Gordon Bennet, film director
• Thomas Bennet (clergyman), English clergyman
• Thomas Bennet (academic), Master of University College, Oxford

Fictional characters

• The Bennet family in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  • Mr. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
  • Mrs. Bennet
  • Elizabeth Bennet, daughter of the above
• The Bennet family in the Heroes TV series:
  • Claire Bennet, cheerleader character
  • Noah Bennet, adoptive father of Claire, known as "Horn-Rimmed Glasses"
  • Sandra Bennet, Noah's wife and Claire's adoptive mother
  • Lyle Bennet, son of Noah and Sandra
• Bennet from the 1985 action film Commando
• Vice President Kathryn Bennet, a character from the 1999 action film Air Force One