Famous People with Name Bennett

Bennett Flowers            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bennett Flowers: (born June 15, 1927 in Wilson, North Carolina) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four different teams between 1951 and 1956. Listed at 6' 4", 195 lb., he batted and threw right-handed.

Bennett Alfred Cerf            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bennett Alfred Cerf: was a publisher and co-founder of Random House, also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line?

Bennett Lester Carter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bennett Lester Carter: was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King (coined by Ben Webster). In 1958, performed with Billie Holiday at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival.

Bennett Chenene            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Bennett Chenene: is a South African football (soccer) midfielder for Premier Soccer League club Orlando Pirates and South Africa.His vision and passing have earned praise from many observers during the last two seasons with his pace and trickery, a dribbling wizard with an unorthodox style of play leaves defenders for dead with relative ease. His pin point crossing and passing has helped Orlando Pirates with many assists mainly for Excellent Walaza. He combines well with Teko Modise in the Bucs engine room serving as a second playmaker.

Edwin Howard Bennett            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Edwin Howard Bennett: was an English cricketer, who played four first-class matches. He was born in Shifnal, Shropshire, and he died at the age of just 35 in East Worthing, Sussex. Three of Bennett's games were for Worcestershire in 1925, while the other came for the Civil Service (playing their only first-class match) in 1927. In the latter game against the touring New Zealanders, themselves making their first tour of England, he made 73 and 60 (by some distance the highest scores of his career). He brought off only one catch in first-class cricket, to dismiss Bob Wyatt in the derby against Warwickshire. Before his brief first-class career, Bennett played a number of games in the Minor Counties Championship for Staffordshire; he scored 97 for them against Kent Second XI in 1921. He also played club cricket for Wolverhampton, and in a single-innings game against Shrewsbury School in 1922 hit 146 opening the batting; the match was eventually drawn with Shrewsbury nine wickets down.

Richard Alexander Bennett            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Richard Alexander Bennett: was an English cricketer who played for Hampshire from 1896 to 1899. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper and was educated at Eton College. He toured with Plum Warner's team in September and October 1897 that played matches against New York and Philadelphia and was the captain of a team that toured the West Indies in 1901-02.

Ian Bennett            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ian Bennett: is a Canadian soccer player currently playing for Rochester Rhinos in the USSF Division 2 Professional League. Bennett turned professional in 2007 when he signed with the Charleston Battery in the USL First Division. In the fall of 2007, Bennett signed with the Chicago Storm of the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Venris Kahni Bennett            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Venris Kahni Bennett: is a former Bahamian cricketer. Bennett is a right-handed batsman who was a right-arm bowler, although his style is unknown. Bennett represented the Bahamas national cricket team in 5 matches. Bennett made his debut for the Bahamas in the 2002 ICC Americas Championship against the United States. Bennett also played for the Bahamas in the 2003/04 Americas Affiliates Championship, 2004 ICC Americas Championship and the 2006 ICC Americas Championship Division Two. Bennett made his only Twenty20 appearance for the Bahamas against the Cayman Islands in the 1st round of the 2006 Stanford 20/20. Bennett scored 1 run and bowled an over that cost 17 runs. This was Bennett's final appearance for the Bahamas.

Norman Osborn Bennett            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Norman Osborn Bennett: sometimes known as Nobby, was an English sportsman. He played rugby union for England, and played one game of first-class cricket, an unsuccessful outing for Worcestershire against the Combined Services in 1946.