List of Famous people with last name Bethune

John Bethune was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, who served and helped found Reformed congregations among the Scottish diaspora in the Colony of North Carolina, Quebec, and in Upper Canada.

Matilda of Béthune, was countess of Flanders by marriage to Guy, Count of Flanders, and heir to the titles Lady of Béthune, of Dendermonde, of Richebourg and of Warneton, as well as Advocatess of the Abbey of Saint Vaast at Arras. She was the mother of Robert, Count of Flanders, known as Robert of Béthune after his mother.

William II, Lord of Béthune, nicknamed William the Red was French nobleman. He was a ruling Lord of Béthune, Richebourg and Warneton, as well as hereditary advocatus of the Abbey of St. Vaast, near Arras.

Elizabeth Bethune, or Beaton, was one of the mistresses of King James V of Scotland. Their daughter, Lady Jean Stewart, married Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll.

Conon de Béthune was a French crusader and trouvère poet who became a senior official and finally regent of the Latin Empire of Connstantinople. Alternative spellings of his name include Cono, Coesnes, Quenes, Conain, and Quenon.

Robert de Béthune VII was a nobleman from the House of Bethune from Artois. He served as a knight and military leader in Flanders and England before inheriting his family territories in France and the Low Countries. He joined the Seventh Crusade, but died en route to the eastern Mediterranean.