The surname Benda may refer to:

A prominent family of musicians originally from Bohemia, chiefly

• Jan Jiří Benda the Elder [cz] (1686–1757), weaver, musician; married Dorota Brixi (1686–1762) of the noted musical family
  • Franz Benda (Czech: František Benda; 1709–1786), violin virtuoso and composer
    • Maria Carolina Benda (1742–1820), singer, pianist, composer; married German composer Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735–1792)
    • Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda (1745–1814), violinist, pianist, composer (known for the Singspiel "Das Blumenmädchen"), born in Potsdam
    • Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda (1748–1836), violinist, composer
      • August Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand (1779–1861), Kammerdiener and nobleman
        • Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Robert von Benda [de], politician
          • Hans Robert Heinrich von Benda (1856–1919)
            • Hans von Benda (1888–1972), German conductor
      • Friedrich August Benda (1786–1854), civil servant and patron of music
    • Juliane Benda (1752–1783), singer, pianist, composer; married writer and composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1815)
      • Louise Reichardt (1779–1826), German songwriter and composer
  • Johann Georg Benda (Czech: Jan Jiří Benda; 1713–1752), violinist, composer
  • Viktor Benda (1719–1762), weaver
  • Georg Anton Benda (Czech: Jiří Antonín Benda; 1722–1795), kapellmeister, violinist, composer
    • Friedrich Ludwig Benda (1746–1792), composer, violinist; married singer Felicitas Agnesia Ritz [de]
    • Heinrich Benda [de] (1754–?), violinist
    • Catherine Justine Benda [de] (1757–?), singer in Hamburg; married actors 1. Karl Friedrich Zimdar [de] 2. Adolph Blanchard
      • Caroline Zimdar [de] (1779–?), singer and actor; married actor Maximilian Scholz
    • Christian Hermann Benda [cz] (1759–1805), singer, actor
      • Amalia Carolina Louisa Benda [de] (1795–1846), actor; married actor Carl August Schmidt
        • Adolph Benda [de] (1825–?), opera singer; married actor and singer Susanna Benda [de]
          • Josephina Maria Louise Benda-Baranyai (born 1854)
            • Ilona B. Benda [de] (1884–?), German-American author and journalist
    • Karl Ernst Eberhard Benda [de] (1764–1824), singer, actor in Berlin
      • Sophia Carolina Benda [de] (1787–1844), singer and actor
  • Joseph Benda (Czech: Josef Benda; 1724–1804), violinist, composer
    • Johann Friedrich Ernst Benda (1749–1785), violinist, harpsichordist in Berlin
      • Johann Wilhelm Otto Benda (1775–1832), poet and translator
    • Karl Friedrich Franz Benda (1754–1816), musician
  • Anna Franziska Benda [de] (1728–1781), operatic soprano; married Bohemian composer Dismas Hataš (1724–1777)
    • Jindřich Krištof Hataš (1739–1808), composer

Unrelated musician

• Felix Benda (1708–1768), Bohemian composer

• Adolf Benda (1845–1878), Bohemian regional historian and jewelry craftsman
• Alice Bendová (born 1973), Czech actress and model
• Andrej Benda (born 1975), Slovak bobsledder
• Antal Benda (1910–1997), Hungarian field handball player
• Arthur Benda (1885–1969), German photographer
• Břetislav Benda (1897–1983), Czech sculptor
• Christian Benda, Czech cellist, composer, and conductor
• Madame D'Ora-Benda (1881–1963), or Dora Kallmus, photographer
• Ernst Benda (1925–2009), German politician and jurist
• Jan Benda (born 1972, Reef, Belgium), Czech-German ice hockey player
• Jan Benda (artist) (1897–1967), Czech artist
• Jean Benda [de] (1874–1949), German violinist
• John Benda (born 1947), American professional golfer playing on the European Seniors Tour
• Julien Benda (1867–1956), Jewish French philosopher and novelist
• Marek Benda (born 1968), Czech politician
• Nancy Tribble Benda (1930–2015), American actress and educator
• Petr Benda (born 1982), Czech basketball player
• Sebastian Benda [de] (1926–2003), Swiss pianist and composer
• Václav Benda (1946–1999), Czech political activist and mathematician
• Władysław Teodor "W.T." Benda (1873–1948), Polish-American painter and illustrator