Benigna

Benigna Dávalos Villavicencio was an Ecuadorian musician, songwriter and composer. She is best known for the pasillo Angel de Luz for which she wrote both the words and the music. The song is known in Peru as "Rayo de Luz" and has been popularized by the duo Las Limeñitas.

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Details of her birth and death are unclear; she is believed to have been born in Riobamba around the turn of the 20th century, and died in Quito in the 1960s. She lived in the La Tola neighborhood of Quito, where she was friends with contemporary cultural figures such as the Benítez Valencia Duo, Rodrigo Barreno (director of the Los Barrieros Ensemble), Marco Chiriboga Villaquirán, etc.

Benigna Marie of Reuss-Ebersdorf (1695–1751) was a Protestant German hymn writer and a titular Countess of Reuss. She was a member of the Reuss-Ebersdorf line from the Reuss-Lobenstein.

Benigna Gottliebe von Trotta genannt Treyden, later Biron (1703 – 1782), was a Baltic-German noblewoman. She was the Duchess consort of Courland and lady-in-waiting to Anna of Russia, during her tenure as duchess, and a state lady during her reign as empress.

Name of the creepy old woman from the Spanish horror El Orfanato, who *spoiler alert* turns out to be a child killer.