Bentham (surname)

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

• Billy Bentham, English rugby league footballer of the 1920s
• Charles Bentham, 18th-century English shipwright in Dutch service
• Craig Bentham (born 1985), English association footballer
• Edward Bentham (1707–1776), English theologian
• Ethel Bentham (1861–1931), Irish doctor, politician and suffragette
• George Bentham (1800–1884), English botanist
• George Bentham (1843–1911), British operatic tenor
• George Jackson Bentham (1863–1929), British politician
• Howard Bentham (born 1965), British radio personality
• Isaac Bentham (1886–1917), British water polo player
• James Bentham (c. 1709–1794), English clergyman and historian of Ely Cathedral
• Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English philosopher and jurist who developed utilitarianism
• John Bentham (born 1963), English association footballer
• Joseph Bentham (1593/94–1671), Church of England minister and writer on theology
• Lee Bentham (born 1970), Canadian former racing driver
• Mary Sophia Bentham (c. 1765–1858), British botanist
• Nat Bentham (1900–1975), English rugby league footballer
• Percy George Bentham (1883–1936), English sculptor
• Phil Bentham (born 1971), English rugby league referee
• Rosie Bentham (born 2001), English actress
• Samuel Bentham (1757–1831), English mechanical engineer
• Stan Bentham (1915–2002), English association footballer
• Thomas Bentham (1513–1578), Bishop of Coventry
• Trevor Bentham (born 1943), former English stage manager and screenwriter

Fictional characters

• Jeremy Bentham (Lost), another name for the character John Locke in Lost
• Karla Bentham, a character in the British television series Waterloo Road

See also

• Betham (surname)