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Michael Bennett

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ1926948 ↗
Source-derived summary

Michael or Mike Bennett may refer to:

Arts

Mike Bennett (artist), American artist

Michael Bennett (film director), New Zealand writer and director

Michael Bennett (theater) (1943–1987), American musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer

Mike Bennett (writer) (born 1962), British script writer, playwright and record producer

Michael Bennett (book series), a series of thriller books by best-selling author James Patterson

Mikey Bennett, Jamaican music producer, composer, musician and singer

Politics

Michael John Bennett (1860–1944), American politician from Wisconsin

Mike Bennett (politician) (born 1945), American politician from Florida

Sports

Michael Bennett (boxer) (born 1971), American professional boxer

Michael Bennett (cricketer) (1909–1982), Somerset cricketer

Michael Bennett (cyclist) (born 1949), British Olympic cyclist

Michael Bennett (defensive lineman, born 1985), American football player

Michael Bennett (defensive tackle, born 1993), American football player

Michael Bennett (running back) (born 1978), American football player

Michael Bennett (wide receiver) (born 1991), American football player

Mickey Bennett (born 1969), English association football player

Mike Bennett (rugby league) (born 1980), English professional rugby league player

Mike Bennett (wrestler) (born 1985), American professional wrestler

Mike Bennett (born 1967), of the professional golf instructing duo Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer

M. S. Bennett (1881–1964), American college football player and coach

See also

Bennett (name)

Gary Michael Bennett (born 1963), English footballer

Micky Bennett (William Bennett, c.

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The public source identifies “Michael Bennett” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Michael, Bennett and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1943, 1987, 1962, 1860—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Michael, Bennett and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Michael Bennett” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.