Benavente (surname)

Benavente is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Diego Benavente (born 1959), Northern Mariana Islands politician
 * Cristian Benavente (born 1994), Peruvian-Spanish soccer player
 * Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954), Spanish dramatist
 * Saulo Benavente (1916–1982), Argentine painter
 * Benjie Benavente (born 1982), Filipino photographer