People
- Benjamin Prentiss, Union general in American civil war
- Elizabeth Prentiss, 19th century songwriter, poet, writer
- John Holmes Prentiss, New York politician
- Samuel Prentiss, Vermont politician
- Seargent Smith Prentiss, Mississippi politician
- Prentiss Marsh Brown, Michigan politician
- William A. Prentiss, Wisconsin politician
- Mara Prentiss, physicist and professor at Harvard University
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