Besant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Annie Besant Annie Besant ( Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights activist, educationist, writer, orator, political party member and philanthropist. Regarded as a champion of human f ...

(1847–1933), British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator *

Derek Michael Besant Derek Michael Besant (born 1950) is a Canadian artist living in Calgary, Alberta who, since the 1980s, has created prints, watercolours and large-scale art, shown in exhibitions and as public art projects in Canada and abroad. Since the mid-199 ...

(born 1950), Canadian artist * Walter Besant (1836–1901), English novelist and historian * W. H. Besant (1828–1917), British mathematician

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