'''Bendre''' (also '''Bendrey'''<ref name="bendrey">{{cite journal |journal=The Illustrated Weekly of India |title = The Illustrated Weekly of India, issue 3, volume 91|volume=91 |issue=3|page=8|date=July 1970 |publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company |quote= There are renowned C.K.P. historians, too, like V. C. Bendre[Bendrey]. His Sambhaji Charitra has won the Maharashtra State Award.}}</ref>) is a surname native to the state of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Goa.<ref>{{cite book|title=D.R. Bendre|author=Kr̥ṣṇappa|publisher=Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies, University of Mysore|year=1997|pages=1–2}}</ref> Typically it is found in the Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu (CKP),<ref name= "bendrey"/><ref>{{cite news|date=2010-06-09|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301100940/https://www.mid-day.com/articles/goldie-bhel-s-maha-mantra/84701|quote=Sonali's [Sonali Bendre]'s family is CKP...|title=Goldie Bhel's Maha Mantra|author=Payal Kamat|publisher=Mid-Day}}</ref> Chitpavan Brahmin<ref>{{cite book|last1=Amur|first1=G.S.|title=Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre (Ambikatanayadatta)|date=1994|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788172015152|page=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QaSWBH68NQYC&pg=PA7}}</ref> and Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin (DRB) communities.<ref>{{cite book|title=Bendré: The Painter and the Person|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G-zVAAAAMAAJ|page=4|author=Ram Chatterjee|publisher=Bendré Foundation for Art and Culture & Indus Corporation|year=1990|quote=Nana [N. S. Bendre], as he was known to close friends and family members, was born on August 21, 1910, in a Deshastha Brahmin (Rigvedi) family, whose family deity is Narasimha.}}</ref>
Notable people with the surname include: * D. R. Bendre, a poet of the Navodaya period of Kannada language * V.S. Bendrey, an eminent Indian historian of medieval and early modern period * N. S. Bendre, an Indian artist and one of the founder members of Baroda Group * Sonali Bendre, Indian actress and model
==References== {{reflist}} Category:Marathi-language surnames