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Benno

Meaning

Short form of German names containing the element bern "bear".

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Famous People Named Benno

Benno Adam

Benno Rafael Adam (15 July 1812, Munich - 8 March 1892, Kelheim) was a German animal painter.

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Benno Schotz

Benno Schotz (28 August 1891 Arensburg, Livonia, Russian Empire – 11 October 1984 Glasgow, Scotland) was an Estonian-born Scottish sculptor, and one of twentieth century Scotland's leading artists.

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Benno Teschke

Benno Teschke (born 1967 in Osnabrück, West Germany) is a German international relations theorist.

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Benno Vigny

Benno Vigny (real name Benoit Philippe Weinfeld; 28 October 1889 – 31 October 1965) was a French-German novelist and screenwriter.

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Benno Erdmann

Benno Erdmann (30 May 1851, Guhrau – 7 January 1921, Berlin) was a German neo-Kantian philosopher, logician, psychologist and scholar of Immanuel Kant.

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Benno in Other Languages

Ancient GermanicBernard
BasqueBeñat
CatalanBernat
CroatianBernarda
CzechBernard

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