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Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).
Britten or Benjamin Britten may also refer to:
- Britten (surname)
- 4079 Britten, an outer main-belt asteroid
- Britten Inlet, an ice-filled inlet on Monteverdi Peninsula, Antarctica
- Britten Motorcycle Company, a New Zealand motorcycle company founded by John Britten
- Benjamin Britten (train)
- The Benjamin Britten High School, a high school in Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Britten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Britten Inlet is an ice-filled inlet and the only inlet on Monteverdi Peninsula indenting the southwest side of the Peninsula, south Alexander Island, Antarctica. The inlet was delineated from U.S. Landsat imagery of January 1973. In association with the names of composers grouped in this area, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, 1977, after Benjamin Britten, the British composer.
Britten Motorcycle Company is a Christchurch, New Zealand motorcycle manufacturer created by John Britten in 1992. The Britten V1000 motorcycles were unusual for their heavy use of carbon fibre for the fairing, wheels and swingarm. Britten motorcycles had no chassis in the traditional sense. Instead, the engine behaved as a stressed member of the chassis and each end of the motorcycle was bolted to it.
