Bentham (surname)

Bentham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Billy Bentham, English rugby league footballer of the 1920s
 * Charles Bentham, 18th-century English shipwright in Dutch service
 * Craig Bentham (born 1985), English association footballer
 * Edward Bentham (1707–1776), English theologian
 * Ethel Bentham (1861–1931), Irish doctor, politician and suffragette
 * George Bentham (1800–1884), English botanist
 * George Bentham (1843–1911), British operatic tenor
 * George Jackson Bentham (1863–1929), British politician
 * Howard Bentham (born 1965), British radio personality
 * Isaac Bentham (1886–1917), British water polo player
 * James Bentham (c. 1709–1794), English clergyman and historian of Ely Cathedral
 * Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English philosopher and jurist who developed utilitarianism
 * John Bentham (born 1963), English association footballer
 * Joseph Bentham (1593/94–1671), Church of England minister and writer on theology
 * Lee Bentham (born 1970), Canadian former racing driver
 * Mary Sophia Bentham (c. 1765–1858), British botanist
 * Nat Bentham (1900–1975), English rugby league footballer
 * Percy George Bentham (1883–1936), English sculptor
 * Phil Bentham (born 1971), English rugby league referee
 * Rosie Bentham (born 2001), English actress
 * Samuel Bentham (1757–1831), English mechanical engineer
 * Stan Bentham (1915–2002), English association footballer
 * Thomas Bentham (1513–1578), Bishop of Coventry
 * Trevor Bentham (born 1943), former English stage manager and screenwriter


 * Fictional characters
 * Jeremy Bentham (Lost), another name for the character John Locke in Lost
 * Karla Bentham, a character in the British television series Waterloo Road