Famous People with Name Benedict

Benedict F. Kiernan            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Benedict F. Kiernan: "is the Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of International and Area Studies and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. He is a prolific writer on the Cambodian genocide.

Benedict (Ben) Andrew Matulino            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Benedict (Ben) Andrew Matulino: is a rugby league player who has represented his country. He currently plays for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League. His position of preference is in the second-row.

Joseph Benedict            Origin/Culture/Country: Irish

Joseph Benedict: (February 22, 1922 – June 3, 2004) was an Irish amateur golfer.

Bruce Edwin Benedict            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bruce Edwin Benedict: (born August 18, 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played 12 seasons for the Atlanta Braves from 1978 to 1989.

Dirk Benedict            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dirk Benedict: s an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lt. Templeton "The Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica television series. He was born in Helena, Montana[1], and grew up in White Sulphur Springs, Montana.

Clare Benedict            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clare Benedict: was an American–Swiss chess patron.She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Her great-grandmother was a sister of James Fenimore Cooper, the well-known American writer and novelist. She was also niece of Constance Fenimore Woolson, an American expatriate Vic

Sir Julius Benedict            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sir Julius Benedict: was a German-born composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career. In Naples his first opera, Giacinta ed Ernesto, premiered in 1829, and another, written for his native city, I Portoghesi in Goa, was given there in 1830; neither of these was a great success, and in 1834 he went to Paris, leaving it in 1835 at the suggestion of Maria Malibran for London, where he spent the remainder of his life. In 1836 he was given the conductorship of an operatic enterprise at the Lyceum Theatre, and brought out a short opera, Un anno ed un giorno, previously given in Naples.