Felix von Bendemann (8 August 1848 – 31 October 1915) was an Admiral of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).

Meteor sailed for Cuba where, on 9 November they fought the only serious naval battle of the war with the French aviso Bouvet commanded by capitaine de frégate Alexandre Franquet.

Lieutenant-Commander (Korvettenkapitän) Bendemann commanded the screw corvette SMS Olga in 1884 as part of the newly formed West African-cruiser squadron (Westafrikanische Geschwader), again under Rear Admiral Eduard von Knorr, to carry out "gunboat diplomacy" in Germany's Western African area of interest, the colony of Kamerun, against a local revolt.

Afterward, a pleased Kaiser Wilhelm I awarded Bendemann the Prussian Order of the Royal Crown, 3rd Class with Swords.

While Captain of the pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Brandenburg taking a trial trip with forced drought the main boiler-tube burst, the explosion causing the death of over forty men.

[8] On 8 June 1900, he brought the large cruisers Hansa and Hertha and the small cruisers SMS Gefion and Irene before the Taku Fort (together with warships of other nations) to land detachments of Seebataillone (marines) for the protection of their citizens in Tientsin From 1903 through 1907, he was head of the North Sea Naval Station Marinestation der Nordsee in Wilhelmshaven.