Bentham (surname)
Bentham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Billy Bentham, English rugby league footballer of the 1920s
- Charles Bentham, English shipwright in Dutch service
- Craig Bentham, English footballer
- Ethel Bentham, Irish doctor, politician and suffragette
- George Bentham, English botanist, son of Samuel
- Isaac Bentham, British water polo player
- James Bentham, English clergyman and historian of Ely Cathedral
- Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and jurist who developed utilitarianism
- John Bentham,, English footballer
- Joseph Bentham, Church of England minister and writer on theology
- Lee Bentham, former Canadian racing driver
- Nat Bentham, English rugby league footballer of the 1920s, and 1930s
- Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer, brother of Jeremy
- Thomas Bentham, Bishop of Coventry
- Trevor Bentham, former English stage manager and screenwriter
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