Benavente (surname)

Benavente is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Diego Benavente (born 1959), Northern Mariana Islands politician
• Cristian Benavente (born 1994), Peruvian-Spanish soccer player
• Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954), Spanish dramatist
• Saulo Benavente (1916–1982), Argentine painter
• Benjie Benavente (born 1982), Filipino photographer