Benno

Benno is a male name .

Origin and meaning of the name

Like Bernd, Benno is an independent short form of names that begin with Bern ... (e.g. Bernhard ) and means "strong" and "courageous", derived from the word "bear". Original name form of Benno as well as Bernhard is the old German name Berno.

The name is also used as a short form of "Benjamin" and "Benedict".

name day

June 16 (Saint Benno of Meissen )

Name bearer

Historic time

Benno von Meißen (around 1010–1106), Bishop of Meißen, saint
Benno II of Osnabrück (around 1020-1088), Bishop of Osnabrück
Benno Friedrich Brand von Lindau (1571–1625), member of the Fruit Bringing Society

First name

Benno von Achenbach (1861–1936), German driver
Benno Adam (1812-1892), German painter
Benno Adolph (1912–1967), German physician
Benno Ammann (1904–1986), Swiss conductor and composer
Benno Arnold (1876–1944), German textile industrialist
Benno Artmann (1933–2010), German mathematician
Benno Baginsky (1848–1919), German ENT doctor and publicist
Benno Basso (* 1936), German entrepreneur and politician
Benno Becker (1860–1938), German painter
Benno Beiroth (* 1942), German soccer player
Benno Berneis (1883–1916), German painter
Benno Besson (1922–2006), Swiss actor and director
Benno Brausewetter (1869–1965), Austrian industrialist and civil engineer
Benno Brückner (1824–1905), German theologian
Benno Budar (* 1946), Sorbian writer, translator and editor
Benno Chajes (1880–1938), German physician and university professor
Benno Credé (1847–1929), German surgeon
Benno Danner (1857–1917), German entrepreneur and founder
Benno Diederich (1870–1947), German teacher, philologist, author and biographer
Benno Elkan (1877–1960), German sculptor
Benno Fürmann (* 1972), German actor
Benno Hoffmann (1919–2005), German dancer and actor
Benno Hurt (* 1941), German writer, photographer and lawyer
Benno Kusche (1916-2010), German singer (baritone)
Benno Max Leser-Lasario (before 1890 – after 1920), Austrian singer and breathing teacher
Benno Meyer-Wehlack (1928–2014), German writer and screenwriter
Benno Möhlmann (* 1954), German soccer player and coach
Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890–1963), Russian pianist
Benno Mugdan (1851–1928), German lawyer
Benno Ohnesorg (1940–1967), German student and police victim
Benno Orenstein (1851–1926), German railroad industrialist
Benno Parthier (1932–2019), German biologist
Benno Pludra (1925-2014), German writer
Benno Schmoldt (1920–2006), German educator
Benno Sterzenbach (1916–1985), German actor
Benno von Wiese (1903–1987), German specialist in German

family name

Johann Ernst Benno (1777–1848; actually Johann Ernst Benike ), German writer

stage name

H. von Benno was the stage name of the writer Hans Nikolaus von Bernstorff (1856–1914)