Bentley (disambiguation)
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Bentley
refers to Bentley Motors Limited, a British manufacturer of automobiles.
Bentley may also refer to:
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
Bentley
Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley known as W.O. Bentley or just "W O". Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most famous being the Bentley BR1 as used in later...
refers to Bentley Motors Limited, a British manufacturer of automobiles.
Bentley may also refer to:
Organizations and institutions
- Bentley University, a university in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
- Bentley Film FestivalBentley Film FestivalThe Bentley Film Festival, also known as The Bentley's, is a film festival held annually on December 3 in Kansas City, Missouri. The festival encourages short, uncut films to be shown as original productions.-History:...
, in Kansas City, Missouri, USA - Bentley High SchoolBentley High SchoolBentley High School is located in Burton, Michigan. Serving students from the 9th grade to the 12th grade, it is part of the Bentley Community Schools. The high school offers programs in band, music, drama, and sports , as well as other programs. The superintendent is John Schantz....
, a public high school in Burton, Michigan, USA - Bentley SchoolBentley SchoolBentley School is a private co-educational college preparatory day school. The Bentley school's lower and middle school campus is located in the Oakland Hills and the high school campus is located in Lafayette, California.-History:...
, an independent coeducational K-12 day school in the East Bay area of California, USA - Bentley SystemsBentley SystemsBentley Systems, Incorporated is a software company that produces solutions for the design, construction and operation of infrastructure. The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction and operations...
, Inc., 2D/3D CAD software development company
Places
Antarctica- Bentley Subglacial TrenchBentley Subglacial TrenchThe Bentley Subglacial Trench is a vast topographic trench in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, 80°S, 115°W. At 2,555 meters below sea level, it is the lowest point on the surface of the earth not covered by ocean, although it is covered by ice. Most people do not count it as the lowest point on...
Australia
- Bentley, Western AustraliaBentley, Western AustraliaBentley is a southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is located 8 km southeast of Perth's central business district. Its Local Government Areas are the City of Canning and the Town of Victoria Park...
, a suburb of Perth
Canada
- Bentley, AlbertaBentley, AlbertaBentley is a town located 28 km north-west of Red Deer, in the province of Alberta, Canada.It was named in honour of George Bentley, an early homesteader.-History:...
United Kingdom
- Bentley, East Riding of YorkshireBentley, East Riding of YorkshireBentley is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south of the market town of Beverley.It lies to the west of the A164 road though there is no access from the main road apart from agricultural vehicles....
- Great Bentley, EssexGreat BentleyGreat Bentley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of North East Essex, England, located midway between the towns of Colchester and Clacton-on-Sea. It is home to the largest village green in the country, at a size of and has won 'Village of the Year' several times...
- Little Bentley, EssexLittle BentleyLittle Bentley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex. It sits on rising ground just to the west of the Holland Brook.The church is dedicated to Saint Mary...
- Bentley, HampshireBentley, HampshireBentley is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. The parish has an acreage of . The village is located just off the A31 road between Farnham in Surrey and Alton, being about five miles west of Farnham and six miles east of Alton...
- Bentley, SuffolkBentley, SuffolkBentley is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. Located a few miles south-west of Ipswich, in 2005 it had a population of 750.Bentley has a primary school, a church and a pub, 'The Case is Altered', but it has no shop....
- Bentley, South YorkshireBentley, South YorkshireBentley is a village in South Yorkshire, England two miles north of the town of Doncaster.The village was once owned by Edmund Hastings of Plumtree, Nottinghamshire, who had inherited it from his wife Copley's Sprotborough family...
- Bentley, WarwickshireBentley, WarwickshireBentley is a village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England, about two miles south-west of Atherstone. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 101....
- Bentley, West MidlandsBentley, West MidlandsBentley is an area in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall located around Junction 10 of the M6 Motorway. It shares borders with the areas of Willenhall, Beechdale, Ashmore Park, Pleck, Darlaston and Alumwell.- History :...
- Bentley, Worcestershire
United States
- Bentley, CaliforniaBentley, CaliforniaBentley is a former settlement in Mendocino County, California. It was located north of Spyrock.A post office operated at Bentley from 1939 to 1940.-References:...
- Bentley, KansasBentley, KansasBentley is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. It is named in honor of the cities founder Orsemus Hills Bentley. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 530.-History:...
- Bentley, Michigan
- Bentley, North DakotaBentley, North DakotaBentley is an unincorporated community in Hettinger County, North Dakota, United States. Its altitude is 2,349 feet , and it is located at . It was founded in 1910....
- Bentley Township, MichiganBentley Township, MichiganBentley Township is a civil township of Gladwin County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 859.-Communities:*Rhodes is an unincorporated community within the township at...
People
- Arthur F. BentleyArthur F. BentleyArthur Fisher Bentley was an American political scientist and philosopher who worked in the fields of epistemology, logic and linguistics and who contributed to the development of a behavioral methodology of political science.-Biography:He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1892 and his Ph.D...
, American political scientist - Bill BentleyBill BentleyWilliam John "Bill" Bentley is an English former professional football player. He played as a left-back....
, English footballer - Bill Bentley (producer)Bill Bentley (producer)Bill Bentley is a music industry executive, particularly notable for having produced tribute albums of the music of significant cult artists Roky Erickson and Skip Spence , in addition to other projects, such as being the co-producer of a tribute album to noted Texas and international artist Doug...
, record company executive and record producer - Christine BentleyChristine BentleyChristine Bentley is a Canadian news anchor for CTV Toronto. She has been a part of the CTVNews family since 1977.Bentley started as a general assignment reporter, soon assigned to City Hall and later Queen's Park. Her next career move took her behind the anchor desk, which she shares with Ken Shaw...
, CFTO - Chukwuma "Bentley" AkabuezeChukwuma AkabuezeChukwuma Akabueze , nicknamed "Bentley", is a Nigerian professional footballer who currently plays for SK Brann.-Club career:...
, Nigerian footballer - Cy BentleyCy BentleyClytus George "Cy" Bentley was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played one season in professional baseball, for the Middletown Mansfields of the National Association.-Career:...
, Major League Baseball pitcher - David BentleyDavid BentleyDavid Michael Bentley is an English footballer who plays for West Ham United as a winger, on loan from Tottenham Hotspur....
, English footballer - Derek BentleyDerek BentleyDerek William Bentley was a British teenager hanged for the murder of a police officer, committed in the course of a burglary attempt. The murder of the police officer was committed by a friend and accomplice of Bentley's, Christopher Craig, then aged 16. Bentley was convicted as a party to the...
, subject of a controversial court case - Dierks BentleyDierks BentleyDierks Bentley is an American country music artist who has been signed to Capitol Records Nashville since 2003. That year, he released his self-titled debut album. Both it and its follow-up, 2005's Modern Day Drifter, are certified platinum in the United States. A third album, 2006's Long Trip...
, country music singer - Doug BentleyDoug BentleyDouglas Wagner Bentley was a Canadian ice hockey left winger who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers as part of a senior and professional career that spanned nearly three decades...
, Canadian ice hockey player - Edmund Clerihew BentleyEdmund Clerihew BentleyE. C. Bentley was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics...
, British author and humorist - Eric BentleyEric BentleyEric Bentley is a critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator. He became an American citizen in 1948, and currently lives in New York City...
, critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator - Fonzworth BentleyFonzworth BentleyDerrick Watkins, in Atlanta, Georgia and popularly known as Fonzworth Bentley or Farnsworth Bentley, is a musician and author. He is perhaps best known for being Sean Combs' former personal valet and assistant, as first seen in Making the Band 2, and is currently the host of MTV's From G's to Gents...
, entertainer and designer, former assistant to Diddy - Greg BentleyGreg BentleyGregory "Greg" Bentley is an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League .Recruited from Rosebud and the Dandenong Stingrays, he was placed on the Port Adelaide Football Club's rookie list but was upgraded to the senior list during 2006...
, Australian football player - Jack Bentley (disambiguation), various people
- Jay BentleyJay BentleyJay Dee Bentley is the bassist and co-founding member of the punk rock group Bad Religion. He has played with the band through its whole existence with a small break between 1983 and 1985.-Bad Religion:...
, bassist for Bad Religion - John Bentley (disambiguation), various people
- Jon BentleyJon BentleyJon Louis Bentley is a researcher in the field of computer science. He is credited with the invention of the k-d tree....
, researcher in computer science - Matt BentleyMatt BentleyMatthew James "Matt" Bentley is an American professional wrestler best known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling by the ring name Michael Shane. He was trained by his cousin, former World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler Shawn Michaels, and he took the name Michael Shane as a play on...
, professional wrestler - Max BentleyMax BentleyMaxwell Herbert Lloyd Bentley was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played for the Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League as part of a professional and senior career that spanned 20 years...
, Canadian ice hockey player - Nicolas BentleyNicolas BentleyNicolas Clerihew Bentley was a British author and illustrator famous for his humorous cartoon drawings in books and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s...
, British author and illustrator - Phyllis BentleyPhyllis BentleyPhyllis Eleanor Bentley, OBE , was an English novelist.The youngest child of a mill owner, she grew up in Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and was educated at Halifax High School for Girls and Cheltenham Ladies' College. During World War I she worked in the munitions industry...
, English novelist - Richard BentleyRichard BentleyRichard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge....
, classical scholar - Richard Bentley (publisher)Richard Bentley (publisher)Richard Bentley was a 19th century English publisher. From a family of publishers, Bentley started a firm with his brother in 1819. Ten years later, he went into partnership with the publisher Henry Colburn...
(1794-1871), English printer and publisher of Bentley's Miscellany - Robert Bentley (disambiguation), various people
- Roy BentleyRoy BentleyRoy Thomas Frank Bentley is a retired English football player who played most notably for Chelsea and the England national side. He later became a manager...
, English football player - Thomas BentleyThomas BentleyThomas Bentley was a British film director. He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941. He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, The Man in the Street , The Antidote , and Acci-Dental Treatment .Bentley was born in London and originally trained as an engineer,...
, English film director - Wes BentleyWes BentleyWesley Cook "Wes" Bentley is an American film actor known for his role of Ricky Fitts in American Beauty.-Early life:Bentley was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the son of Cherie and David Bentley, who are United Methodist ministers....
, actor - Wilson BentleyWilson BentleyWilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley , born in Jericho, Vermont, United States is one of the first known photographers of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimed.-Biography:Bentley was...
, artist-scientist - W. O. BentleyW. O. BentleyWalter Owen Bentley, MBE engineer; designer of aero engines, designer and racer of motor cars, founder of Bentley Motors Limited in Cricklewood near London.He was known as "W.O." without any need to add the word Bentley....
, founder of Bentley Motors
Fictional characters
- Bentley (Sly Cooper character), from the Sly Cooper video game series
- Bentley (Spyro character), from Spyro the Dragon
- Harry Bentley (The Jeffersons), from The Jeffersons
Other uses
- Great Bentley railway stationGreat Bentley railway stationGreat Bentley railway station is a staffed railway station serving Great Bentley in Essex, England. The station is located north east of London Liverpool Street on the Sunshine Coast Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line. The station is located at street level on Station Road in the...
- Bentley (Hampshire) railway stationBentley (Hampshire) railway stationBentley railway station serves the village of Bentley in Hampshire, England. It is situated on the Alton Line, between Farnham and Alton. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South West Trains....
- Bentley (Suffolk) railway stationBentley (Suffolk) railway stationNot to be confused with Great Bentley railway station.Bentley railway station, also known as Bentley Junction, was located in Bentley, Suffolk on the Great Eastern Main Line...
- Bentley (South Yorkshire) railway stationBentley (South Yorkshire) railway stationBentley railway station is a railway station that serves Bentley, South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Wakefield Line and is managed by Northern Rail, who also provide all the passenger trains serving it...
- Bentley (W&WR) railway stationBentley (W&WR) railway stationBentley railway station was a railway station built by the Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway in 1872, and was operated by the Midland Railway from 1876 onwards. It served the area of Bentley, located between Willenhall and Walsall in the English West Midlands .-References:*...
- Bentley's MiscellanyBentley's MiscellanyBentley's Miscellany was an English literary magazine started by Richard Bentley. It was published between 1836 and 1868.-Contributors:Already a successful publisher of novels, Bentley began the journal in 1836 and invited Charles Dickens to be its first editor...
, a literary magazine published between 1836 and 1868