Benoit (name)
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Benoît is a Catholic French male given name
, as well as family name
. It is sometimes spelled Benoit or, less frequently, Benoist.
The name is the Old French word for "blessed". It is also a common surname, often or bɨˈnɔɪt by English speakers.
The female form of the name is Benoîte, or Bénédicte
.
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
, as well as family name
Family name
A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
. It is sometimes spelled Benoit or, less frequently, Benoist.
The name is the Old French word for "blessed". It is also a common surname, often or bɨˈnɔɪt by English speakers.
The female form of the name is Benoîte, or Bénédicte
Bénédicte
Bénédicte may refer to:* Bénédicte Couvreur, a French film producerBenedicte may refer to:* a Christian prayer said on Sundays, see Canonical hours-Other versions of the name:*Benedictus *Benoit *Benedict...
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Benoit in other languages
- AragoneseAragonese languageAragonese is a Romance language now spoken in a number of local varieties by between 10,000 and 30,000 people over the valleys of the Aragón River, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza in Aragon, Spain...
: Benedet - BretonBreton languageBreton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France. Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as...
: Beneat - CatalanCatalan languageCatalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
: Benet - CroatianCroatian languageCroatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
: Benedikt - DanishDanish languageDanish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
: Benedikt, Bendt - CzechCzech languageCzech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
: Benedikt, Beneš - DutchDutch languageDutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
: Benedictus - EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
: Benedict - FinnishFinnish languageFinnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
: Benediktus, Pentti - GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
: Benedikt - GreekGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
: Βενέδικτος (Venediktos) - HungarianHungarian languageHungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
: Benedek - ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
: Benedetto, Benito - Latin: Benedictus
- LatvianLatvian languageLatvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...
: Benedikts, Bendiks, Benis - NorwegianNorwegian languageNorwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
: Benedikt - PolishPolish languagePolish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
: Benedykt - PortuguesePortuguese languagePortuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
: Benedito, Bento - Provençal: Bénézet
- RomanianRomanian languageRomanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
: Benedict - RussianRussian languageRussian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Венедикт - SlovakSlovak languageSlovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
: Benedikt - SlovenianSlovenian languageSlovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic language spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. It is the first language of about 1.85 million people and is one of the 23 official and working languages of the European Union...
: Benedikt - SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
: Benedicto, Benito - SwedishSwedish languageSwedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
: Benedikt, Bengt - YiddishYiddish languageYiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...
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Benoit as a given name
- Benoit BenjaminBenoit BenjaminLenard Benoit Benjamin is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1st round of the 1985 NBA Draft. A 7'0" center from Creighton University, Benjamin played for nine NBA teams in 15 seasons from 1985-2000...
, former American professional basketball player - Benoît BouchardBenoît BouchardBenoît Bouchard, PC is a Canadian public official and former politician.After a career as a professor and teacher, Bouchard was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Roberval in the 1984 election...
, Canadian public official and former politician - Benoît BrunetBenoit BrunetBenoît Brunet is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player. He was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the second round, 27th overall, of the 1986 NHL Entry Draft.-Playing career:...
, Canadian retired hockey player - Benoît CharestBenoît CharestBenoît Charest is a Canadian guitarist and film score composer from Quebec. He is best known for the soundtrack of the animated film Les Triplettes de Belleville , for which he won a César Award for Best Music Written for a Film as well as a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music...
, Canadian guitarist and film score composer - Benoît-Constant CoquelinBenoît-Constant CoquelinBenoît-Constant Coquelin , known as Coquelin aîné, was a French actor, "one of the greatest theatrical figures of the age."-Biography:Coquelin was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais...
, French stage and film actor - Benoît DavidBenoît DavidBenoît David is a Canadian singer who is the lead vocalist of the English progressive rock band Yes and Canadian band Mystery. He was selected by Yes in 2008 to stand in for long-time vocalist Jon Anderson, who left the band due to ill health...
, Canadian singer - Benoît FerreuxBenoît FerreuxBenoît Ferreux is a French film and television actor who is possibly best recalled for his role in the 1971 film Murmur of the Heart....
, French film actor - Benoît JacquotBenoît JacquotBenoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
, French film director - Benoît HamonBenoît HamonBenoît Hamon is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party , part of the Party of European Socialists. He was Member of the European Parliament for the East of France from 2004 to 2009. He was national secretary for Europe in the French socialist party. At present, he is spokesman...
, French former MEP and current spokesperson for the Socialist Party of France - Benoit HogueBenoit HogueBenoît "Benny" Hogue is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey left wing. He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the second round, 35th overall, in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft....
, Canadian retired hockey player - Benoît MagimelBenoît MagimelBenoît Magimel is a French actor. A prolific actor who was 14 when he appeared in his first film, Magimel has starred in a variety of roles in French cinema....
, French actor - Benoît MandelbrotBenoît MandelbrotBenoît B. Mandelbrot was a French American mathematician. Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child...
, French mathematician, the "father of fractal geometry" - Benoît PaireBenoît PaireBenoît Paire is a French tennis player. He reached a career high-ranking of 94 . He reached the 1st round of a Grand Slam event for the first time at Roland Garros in 2010...
, French professional tennis player - Benoît PedrettiBenoît PedrettiBenoît Pedretti is a French association football midfielder playing for Lille. He is a deep lying playmaker well known for his wide range of passing....
, French football player. - Benoît PoelvoordeBenoît PoelvoordeBenoît Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor and comedian who often associates cynicism, humour and drama in his movies.His mother was a grocer and his father a driver, who died when Poelvoorde was still young...
, Belgian actor - Benoît SokalBenoît SokalBenoît Sokal is a Belgian comic artist and video game developer, best known for his comics series Inspector Canardo.-Biography:...
, Belgian comic artist and video game developer - Benoît TremblayBenoît TremblayBenoît Tremblay was a Canadian politician and a member of the House of Commons from 1988 to 1997.-Background:Tremblay was born on 16 March 1948 in Val-Brillant, Quebec...
, former member of the Canadian House of Commons - Benoît de Sainte-MaureBenoît de Sainte-MaureBenoît de Sainte-Maure was a 12th century French poet, most probably from Sainte-Maure de Touraine near Tours, France. The Plantagenets' administrative center was located in Chinon - west of Tours....
, medieval French poet - Benoît VaugrenardBenoît VaugrenardBenoît Vaugrenard is a French road racing cyclist who rides for UCI Professional Continental team .- Palmares:2005...
, French professional cyclist
Benoit as a family name
- André BenoitAndré BenoitAndre Benoit is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Benoit is currently a member of the Spartak Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League. Benoit has played for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League , the Binghamton Senators and Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League...
, Canadian hockey player - Avril BenoîtAvril BenoîtAvril Benoît is a Canadian broadcaster best known for her radio programmes and documentaries on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2006, after two decades in journalism, she left the CBC to join Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders Canada as director of communications...
, Canadian broadcast journalist - Bob Benoit (horse racing)Bob Benoit (horse racing)Robert P. Benoit was chief operating officer and general manager of the Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. In 2004, he became the first recipient of the Laffit Pincay Jr...
, general manager of the Hollywood Park race track - Brian BenoitBrian BenoitBrian Benoit was a guitarist for The Dillinger Escape Plan. Before playing in Dillinger, Brian played in Jesuit with eventual Converge bassist Nate Newton. He was also an early live-only member in Virginia youth crew revival band Time Flies...
, American metal-core guitarist - Chris BenoitChris BenoitChristopher Michael "Chris" Benoit was a Canadian professional wrestler whose career and life ended in a murder–suicide...
(1967–2007Chris Benoit double murder and suicideThe Chris Benoit double murder suicide occurred over a three-day period ending on June 24, 2007. World Wrestling Entertainment professional wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife, Nancy Benoit, strangled his seven-year-old son, Daniel, and subsequently committed suicide by hanging. Autopsy results...
), Canadian professional wrestler - David Benoit (basketball)David Benoit (basketball)David Benoit is a former American professional basketball player, in the small forward position.During his career, he played seven years in the National Basketball Association, six with the Utah Jazz....
(born 1968), American basketball player - David Benoit (musician), American jazz fusion pianist
- Hubert BenoîtHubert BenoîtHubert Benoît is a politician from Quebec, Canada. He was an Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Montmorency from 2007 to 2008....
, Canadian politician - Joan BenoitJoan BenoitJoan Benoit Samuelson is an American marathon runner, who won gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the year that the women's marathon was introduced. As a result she was the first ever women's Olympic marathon champion. Benoit Samuelson still holds the fastest times for an American...
, American first women's Olympic marathon champion - Joaquin BenoitJoaquín BenoitJoaquín Antonio Benoit Peña is a Dominican professional baseball relief pitcher with the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball in the United States. He is 6'3" and weighs 220 pounds.-Texas Rangers:...
, Dominican pitcher for the Detroit Tigers - John J. BenoitJohn J. BenoitJohn Joseph Benoit is a Republican member of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors, who took office on December 1, 2009...
, American politician - Leon Benoit, Canadian politician
- Luigi BenoitLuigi BenoitLuigi Benoit was an Italian naturalist.Luigi Benoit studied at the military school "Nunziatella di Napoli" in Naples then began his career in the...
, Italian ornithologist - Maurice Benoit ("Moe"), Canadian professional hockey player
- Nancy Benoit (1964–2007Chris Benoit double murder and suicideThe Chris Benoit double murder suicide occurred over a three-day period ending on June 24, 2007. World Wrestling Entertainment professional wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife, Nancy Benoit, strangled his seven-year-old son, Daniel, and subsequently committed suicide by hanging. Autopsy results...
), American professional wrestling valet and wife of Chris Benoit - Nicole Schnyder-BenoitNicole Schnyder-BenoitNicole Schnyder-Benoit is a retired professional beach volleyball player from Switzerland, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...
, Swiss beach volleyball player - Peter Benoit, Belgian composer
- Pierre Basile BenoitPierre Basile BenoitPierre Basile Benoit was a Quebec farmer and political figure. He represented Chambly in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1867 to 1874 and from 1876 to 1886....
, Canadian farmer and political figure - Pierre Benoit (archaeologist)Pierre Benoit (archaeologist)Maurice Benoit , better known as Pierre Benoit, was a French catholic priest, exegete, and theologian.-Biography:...
, French theologian - Pierre BenoitPierre Benoit (novelist)Pierre Benoît was a French novelist and member of the Académie française.Pierre Benoit, born in Albi was the son of a French soldier. Benoit spent his early years and military service in Northern Africa, before becoming a civil servant...
, French novelist - Pierre Benoit (Ontario politician)Pierre Benoit (Ontario politician)J. Pierre Benoit was mayor of Ottawa from 1972 to 1974. He was a lawyer by career.Benoit studied law at the University of Ottawa and played Canadian football with the Ottawa Gee-Gees from 1957 to 1961. He then practised law in the Ottawa area. He was mayor during the opening of the Main Branch of...
, former mayor of Ottawa, Canada - Tab BenoitTab BenoitTab Benoit is an American blues guitarist, musician and singer. He plays a style that is a combination of blues styles, primarily Delta blues. He plays a Fender Telecaster electric guitar and writes his own musical compositions. Benoit graduated from Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma,...
, American blues guitarist