Bennett's woodpecker (Campethera bennettii) is a species of bird in the family Picidae.

[2] The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the British naturalist Edward Turner Bennett.

The female has a black forehead with white spots, and its ear coverts and throat are brown or blackish-brown.

The subspecies capricorni is slightly larger, and its underparts have a deeper colour and fewer spots.

[4] This woodpecker is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe,[1] and it has a patchy distribution.