What is "benes"

Beneš (feminine Benešová) is common Czech and Slovak surname. The surname was derived from the shortened Czech form of the given name Benedict (latin name of meaning "blessed", see also the surname Benedict). In the old Czech orthography the word was written as Beness, the germanized form is Benesch.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan Benes (born 1972), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Andy Benes (born 1967), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Bedřich Beneš (1903 - 1968), Czech composer
• Bedřich Beneš (born 1967), Czech computer graphics researcher
• Edvard Beneš (1884 - 1948), leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement and the second President of Czechoslovakia
• Iveta Benešová (born 1983), Czech professional tennis player
• Jan Beneš (1936 - 2007), Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter
• Jan Beneš (born 1987), Czech orienteering competitor, and junior world champion
• Juraj Beneš (1940 - 2004), Slovak opera and orchestral composer
• Josef Beneš (1902 - 1984), Czech linguist
• Ladislav Beneš (born 1943) Czech handball player
• Lubomír Beneš (1935 – 1995) Czech animator, director and author
• Luděk Beneš Czechoslovak slalom canoer
• Marijan Beneš (born 1951), Yugoslav boxer
• Pavel Beneš chief designer at ČKD-Prague
• Petr Beneš, Czech volleyball player
• Thomas A. Benes, (1951-2014) United States Marine Corps general
• Václav Beneš Třebízský (1849-1884) Czech novelist
• Vaclav E. Benes (born 1925), American mathematician and probability theorist, developer of the Benes network
• Vít Beneš, Czech footballer
• Vojta Beneš (1878 - 1951), Czechoslovak educator and political leader and brother of Edvard Beneš
• Božena Benešová (1873–1936), Czech poet and author

Fictional characters:

• Alton Benes, Elaine Benes's father on Seinfeld
• Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' character on Seinfeld
• Sandra Benes, a character on Space: 1999