Benedict
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Benedict of Nursia was the founder of the Benedictine Order and thereby of western monasticism
Benedict may also refer to:
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- Benedict of Aniane
- Benedict Biscop
- Benedict the Bridge-Builder also known as Bénézet
- Benedict Crispus
- Benedict Joseph Labre
- Benedict the Moor, also known as Benedict the Black
- Pope Benedict I
- Pope Benedict II also a saint
- Pope Benedict III
- Pope Benedict IV
- Pope Benedict V
- Pope Benedict VI
- Pope Benedict VII
- Pope Benedict VIII
- Pope Benedict IX
- Pope Benedict XI
- Pope Benedict XII
- Pope Benedict XIII
- Pope Benedict XIV
- Pope Benedict XV
- Pope Benedict XVI - current Pontiff
- Benedict Arnold, American general
- Ruth Fulton Benedict American anthropologist
- Clare Benedict American author
- Dirk Benedict (pseudonym) American actor
- Jules Jacques Benois Benedict, American architect
- Stanley Rossiter Benedict, the American chemist who invented Benedict's reagent, a test for reducing sugars.
- Joseph Benedict Chifley, Ben Chifley, former Prime Minister of Australia
- Sir Julius Benedict English composer and conductor
- Benedict Carpenter British artist
- Benedict Roezl Czech botanist
- Bénédict the title character in Berlioz's opera Béatrice et Bénédict
- Benedick, a character from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The character is the source of the word of the word "benedict", meaning a newly married man who has long been a bachelor.
- Benedict of Amber, The Chronicles of Amber
- Benedict College, South Carolina
- Benedict, Kansas
- Benedict, Nebraska
- Benedikt (Slovenia), a municipality in Slovenia
- San Benedicto Island, Mexico
- St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School, Ontario, Canada
- Benoît, France
- Benoît (name)
- Benedict (crater), a lunar crater
- Eggs Benedict, a breakfast dish
- Benedict's reagent, a test for aldehydes in Chemistry
- São Bento, Portuguese for Saint Benedict
- Benediction