# Benno

Benno may refer to:

## People
### Mononym

* Benno (bishop of Metz) [fr] (927–940), saint
* Benno (bishop of Como) [it] (1049–1061)
* Benno I of Osnabrück (bishop, 1052–1067)
* Benno of Meissen (bishop, 1066–1106), saint
* Benno II of Osnabrück (bishop, 1068–1088)
* Benno of Santi Martino e Silvestro (fl. 1082–1098), cardinal
* Benno (bishop of Cesena) (1123–1141)
* Benno (bishop of Imola) [it] (1126–1139)
* Benno (bishop of Rimini) [it] (1230–1242)

### First name

* Benno von Achenbach [de] (1861–1936), German racecar driver
* Benno Adam (1812–1892), German painter
* Benno Adolph [de] (1912–1967), German physician
* Benno Ammann [de] (1904–1986), Swiss conductor and composer
* Benno von Arent (1898–1956), German film director
* Benno Arnold (1876–1944), German industrialist
* Benno Artmann [de] (1933–2010), German mathematician
* Benno Baginsky (1848–1919), German physician
* Benno Basso [de] (died 1936), German entrepreneur and politician
* Benno Becker [de] (1860–1938), German painter
* Benno Beiroth [de] (died 1942), German footballer
* Benno Berneis [de] (1883–1916), German painter
* Benno Besson (1922–2006), Swiss actor and director
* Benno Friedrich Brand von Lindau [de] (1571–1625), member of the Fruitbearing Society
* Benno Brausewetter [de] (1869–1965), Austrian industrialist
* Benno Brückner [de] (1824–1905), German theologian
* Benno Budar [de] (died 1946), Sorbian writer
* Benno Chajes (1880–1938), German physician
* Benno Cohen (1894–1975), Israeli politician
* Benno Credé (1847–1929), German surgeon
* Benno Danner [de] (1857–1917), German entrepreneur
* Benno Diederich [de] (1870–1947), German philologist
* Benno Dorer (born 1964), German businessman
* Benno Elbs [cs] (born 1960), Austrian Catholic priest and bishop of Feldkirch
* Benno Elkan (1877–1960), German–born British sculptor
* Benno Erdmann (1851–1921), German neo–Kantian philosopher
* Benno Fiala Ritter von Fernbrugg (1890–1964), Austro–Hungarian fighter ace
* Benno Fischer [cs] (1902–1981), Czechoslovak politician
* Benno Friesen (1929–2021), Canadian professor and politician
* Benno Fürmann (born 1972), German film and television actor
* Benno Geiger (1882–1965), Austrian art historian
* Benno de Goeij (born 1975), Dutch record producer
* Benno Griebert (1909–2000), German art historian and art dealer
* Benno Groß (born 1957), German gymnast
* Benno Gut (1897–1970), Benedictine monk and cardinal
* Benno Hansen [et] (1891–1952), Estonian singer
* Benno Herrmann (1918–1999), German pilot and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
* Benno Hoffmann [de] (1919–2005), German dancer and actor
* Benno Hurt [de] (died 1941), German writer, photographer and lawyer
* Benno Jacob (1862–1945), Jewish rabbi and Bible scholar
* Benno Janssen (1874–1964), American architect
* Benno Karner (born 1901), Austrian bobsledder
* Benno Kerry (1858–1889), Austrian philosopher
* Benno Kögl (1892–1973), German painter
* Benno Kuipers (born 1974), Dutch swimmer
* Benno Kusche (1916–2010), German operatic baritone
* Benno Landsberger (1890–1968), German Assyriologist
* Benno Larsen (born 1949), Danish footballer
* Benno Leesik (1960–2006), Estonian military officer
* Benno Max Leser-Lasario [de] (fl. 1890–1920), Austrian singer
* Benno Lischer (1876–1959), American orthodontist
* Benno Magnusson (born 1953), Swedish footballer
* Benno Martin (1893–1975), German SS functionary
* Benno Mengele (1898–1971), Austrian electrical engineer
* Benno Meyer-Wehlack [de] (1928–2014), German writer
* Benno Mikkal [et] (1912–1981), Estonian actress
* Benno Möhlmann (born 1954), German footballer and manager
* Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890–1963), Russian–born British pianist
* Benno Mugdan [de] (1851–1928), German jurist
* Benno Müller-Hill (1933–2018), German biologist
* Benno Ndulu (1950–2021), Tanzanian banker
* Benno Orenstein [de] (1851–1926), German industrialist
* Benno Parthier [de] (1932–2019), German biologist
* Benno Planek (1834–1922), Moravian rabbi and writer
* Benno Pludra (1925–2014), German children's author
* Benno Premsela (1920–1997), Dutch artist and collector
* Benno Rabinof (1902–1975), American violinist
* Benno Reinhardt (1819–1852), German physician
* Benno Reuter (1911–1980), German soldier and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
* Benno Rössler [cs] (1931–2014), Czech Catholic priest
* Benno Saelens (born 1948), Belgian volleyball player
* Benno C. Schmidt Jr. (born 1942), private school chairman
* Benno C. Schmidt Sr. (1913–1999), American lawyer and venture capitalist
* Benno Schmitz (born 1994), German footballer
* Benno Schmoldt [de] (1920–2006), German educator
* Benno Schotz (1891–1984), Estonian–born Scottish sculptor
* Benno Seppelt (1846–1931), Australian winemaker
* Benno Singer (1875–1934), Hungarian–born British entertainment administrator
* Benno Sternberg (1894–1962), Ukrainian Zionist
* Benno Sterzenbach (1916–1985), German actor and director
* Benno Straucher (1854–1940), Jewish Austro–Hungarian lawyer and politician
* Benno Teschke (born 1967), German international relations theorist
* Benno Frederick Toermer (1804–1859), German painter
* Benno Vigny (1889–1965), French–German novelist and screenwriter
* Benno Walter (1847–1901), German violinist
* Benno Wandolleck (1864 – 1930), German sports shooter and zoologist
* Benno Werlen (born 1952), Swiss geographer
* Benno von Wiese [de] (1903–1987), German scholar
* Benno Wiss (born 1962), Swiss cyclist
* Benno Wolf (1871–1943), German judge and speleologist
* Benno Ziegler (1887–1963), German operatic baritone

### Surname

* Alex Benno (1873–1952), Dutch actor and director
* Johann Ernst Benno [de] (1777–1848), German writer
* Marc Benno (born 1947), American musician
* Tiina Benno (born 1961), Estonian politician

## Other

* Benno Stehkragen, a 1927 German silent film
* Benno von Archimboldi, a fictional character in the novel 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
* Benno Bikes, a bicycle manufacturer