Benfield is an

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

toponymic surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name.

from one or more of the numerous places in England called Benfield or Binfield. Notable people with this name include: * Andrea Benfield (born 1978), English journalist * Christopher Benfield Carter (1844–1906), Canadian politician *

Derek Benfield Derek Benfield (11 March 1926 – 10 March 2009) was a British playwright and actor. He was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bingley Grammar School. He was the author of the stage farce ''Running Riot'' and pla ...

(1926–2009), British playwright and actor *

Fred Benfield Fred Kirkham (born Frederick Angus Benfield; 5 April 1937 – 25 October 2007) was an Australian Olympic medal winning rower, songwriter and judge. Early life Kirkham was born in Leichhardt, New South Wales and attended Newington College ( ...

(1937–2007), Australian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics *

John Benfield Jonathan Edmund Fulford "John" Turner (9 November 1951 – 16 June 2020), better known by his stage name John Benfield, was a British character actor. Biography Benfield appeared in 75 television episodes or films starting in 1981 with small pa ...

(1951–2020), British actor, who has appeared in 75 TV episodes or films starting in 1981 *

Robert Benfield Robert Benfield (died July 1649) was a seventeenth-century actor, noted for his longtime membership in the King's Men in the years and decades after William Shakespeare's retirement and death. Nothing is known of Benfield's early life. He was mo ...

(died 1649), seventeenth-century actor, longtime member of the ''King's Men'' *

Tommy Benfield Thomas Charles Benfield (1889 – 19 September 1918) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Leicester Fosse and Derby County as a forward. Career An outside right and inside forward, Benfield played for ...

(1889–1918), English footballer *

Warren Benfield Warren A. Benfield (February 12, 1913 – July 8, 2001) was a classical double bass player. He enjoyed a long career in the bass section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was professor at Northwestern University. Studies and orchestral ca ...

(1913–2001), classical double bass player *William Avery Benfield, Jr (1917–1988), Presbyterian minister, charismatic world evangelist

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