title: Benfield
text: # Benfield
  
  Benfield is an English toponymic surname from one or more of the numerous places in England called Benfield or Binfield. Notable people with this name include:
  
  * Andrea Benfield (born 1978), English journalist
  * Christopher Benfield Carter (1844–1906), Canadian politician
  * Derek Benfield (1926–2009), British playwright and actor
  * Fred Benfield (1937–2007), Australian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics
  * John Benfield (1951–2020), British actor, who has appeared in 75 TV episodes or films starting in 1981
  * Robert Benfield (died 1649), seventeenth-century actor, longtime member of the King's Men
  * Tommy Benfield (1889–1918), English footballer
  * Warren Benfield (1913–2001), classical double bass player
  * William Avery Benfield, Jr (1917–1988), Presbyterian minister, charismatic world evangelist
  