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)
See also
- St. Benno (Munich) , St. Benno Church Munich
- Bennoturm ( Bad Iburg )
- St. Benno-Gymnasium Dresden
- Bennohöhle , a cave in Saxon Switzerland
- St. Benno-Verlag , a German denominational publisher based in Leipzig
- Benno, a CD shelf system from furniture store IKEA