Bentham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Billy Bentham, English rugby league footballer of the 1920s Charles Bentham, 18th-century English shipwright in Dutch service Craig Bentham (born 1985), English footballer Edward Bentham (1707–1776), English theologian Ethel Bentham (1861–1931), Irish doctor, politician and suffragette George Bentham (1800–1884), English botanist George Bentham (1843–1911), British operatic tenor George Jackson Bentham (1863–1929), British politician Howard Bentham (born 1965), British radio personality Isaac Bentham (1886–1917), British water polo player James Bentham (–1794), English clergyman and historian of Ely Cathedral Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English philosopher and jurist who developed utilitarianism John Bentham (born 1963), English association footballer Joseph Bentham (1593/94–1671), Church of England minister and writer on theology Lee Bentham (born 1970), Canadian former racing driver Mary Sophia Bentham (–1858), British botanist Nat Bentham (1900–1975), English rugby league footballer Percy George Bentham (1883–1936), English sculptor Phil Bentham (born 1971), English rugby league referee Rosie Bentham (born 2001), English actress Samuel Bentham (1757–1831), English mechanical engineer Stan Bentham (1915–2002), English association footballer Thomas Bentham (1513–1578), Bishop of Coventry Trevor Bentham (1943–2025), English stage manager and screenwriter
Fictional characters Jeremy Bentham (Lost), another name for the character John Locke in Lost Karla Bentham, a character in the British television series Waterloo Road
See also Betham (surname)