Bent (surname)
Bent is a surname common in English speaking countries. It may refer to:
- Alex Bent, percussionist for American heavy metal band Trivium
- Amel Bent, French singer
- Arthur Cleveland Bent, American ornithologist
- Bruce R. Bent, American financier
- Charles Bent, first American Governor of the New Mexico Territory
- Charles Bent, composer of chess endgame studies
- Darren Bent, English football player
- Ellis Bent, Deputy Judge Advocate for New South Wales, Australia
- Geoff Bent, English football player
- George Bent, a son of William Bent, American Civil War soldier and Cheyenne warrior
- Henry A. Bent, physical chemist
- James Theodore Bent, English explorer and archaeologist
- Jason Bent, Canadian football player
- Jeffery Hart Bent, first judge of the colony of New South Wales, Australia
- Jevene Bent, former Jamaican police officer
- John Bent, multiple people
- Junior Bent, English football player
- Kimball Bent, American soldier and adventurer
- Lyriq Bent, Canadian actor
- Marcus Bent, English football player
- Margaret Bent, English musicologist
- Paul Bent, former English cricketer
- Philip Bent, Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Ridley Bent, Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter
- Silas Bent, judge on the bench of the Missouri Supreme Court
- Silas Bent, U.S. Navy officer
- Silas Bent, American journalist
- Spencer John Bent, English Victoria Cross recipient
- Thomas Bent, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria
- William Bent, American trapper, rancher and frontier diplomat
