Benavente is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Diego Benavente (born 1959), Northern Mariana Islands politician Cristian Benavente (born 1994), Peruvian-Spanish soccer player Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954), Spanish dramatist Judit Benavente (born 1989), Spanish model, public figure and influencer Saulo Benavente (1916–1982), Argentine painter
See also Benavent, the Catalan equivalent of the surname