List of Famous people named Benno

Benjamin "Benno" Fürmann is a German film and television actor.

Benno Ohnesorg was a West German university student killed by a policeman during a demonstration in West Berlin. His death spurred the growth of the left-wing German student movement.

Benno Wolf was a German judge and a pioneer speleologist. He was a co-founder of the German Society for Mammalogy and has been considered one of the founders of conservation in Prussia. He did the essential preparatory work for the German Reichnaturschutzgesetz (RNG) of 26 June 1935 that for the first time in Germany regulated the official issues of nature conservation, defined protection zones and introduced the concept of landscape protection area. The Nazi government arrested him for having Jewish ancestry and he died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Benno Besson was a Swiss actor and director. He had great success as director at Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Theater and Berliner Ensemble in East-Berlin, where he went by an invitation of Bertolt Brecht in 1949.

Benno Sterzenbach was a German cinema and theatre actor and director.

Benno Elkan OBE was a German-born British sculptor and medallist. His work includes the big Menora standing in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem and also numerous monuments, busts and medals in Germany and England.

Benno Hans Möhlmann is a retired German football player and manager who last managed Preußen Münster.

Benno Müller-Hill was a German biologist and author. Together with Walter Gilbert, Müller-Hill purified the lac repressor, the first genetic control protein to be isolated. Müller-Hill has lectured widely and written books on the misuse of science by the Nazis.

Benno Rafael Adam was a German animal painter.

Benno Moiseiwitsch CBE was a Russian-born British pianist.