Richard Bennett

Richard Bennet or Bennett may refer to:

  • Richard Bennett (actor) (1870–1944), film star and father of actresses Constance Bennett and Joan Bennett
  • Richard Bennett (cricketer) (1872–1953), English cricketer
  • Richard Bennett (guitarist) (born 1951), Nashville based musician and record producer
  • Richard Bennett (Governor) (1609–1675), colonial governor of Virginia
  • Dick Bennett (born 1943), basketball coach
  • Dick Bennett, character in 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
  • Richard A. Bennett (born 1963), politician from Maine, former president of the Maine Senate
  • R. B. Bennett (1870–1947), former prime minister of Canada
  • Richard D. Bennett (born 1947), U.S. federal judge
  • Richard E. Bennett (born 1946), religion professor at Brigham Young University
  • Richard Rodney Bennett (born 1936), British composer
  • Rick Bennett
  • Richard Bennet of the Bennet baronets
  • Richard Bennet (MP) for Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency)

Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or bennett:

    “Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
    —Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)

    “I want to feel the surging
    Of my sad people’s soul
    Hidden by a minstrel-smile.”
    —Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981)