Chester was born in Phoenix, Arizona. His parents divorced when he was 11 years old. He has two half sisters and a half brother. He attended Centennial High School at the beginning of his freshman year. Then he went to Greenway High School where he started his first band, Grey Daze. He graduated from Washington High School in 1994.


One of the lead singers to the band Linkin Park Siblings: Two half sisters and one half brother, Brian His wife, Samantha, gave birth to a boy, Draven Sebastian Bennington. [April 19, 2002] Recently had the laser eye surgery procedure done (March 2004) Before Linkin Park, when Chester was 16 he played in a band called 'Grey Daze' which recorded two albums, 'No Sun Today' and 'Wake Me' until later breaking-up. Chester's siblings are children from one of his step-parent's previous marraige. Chester's biological parents got divorced when he was 11. He and his wife, Talinda welcomed their new baby boy, Tyler Lee on 16th March 2006. He weighed nine pounds and three ounces. Chester was the one who came up with the name Linkin Park for his band (taken from the then-name of a park in Santa Monica, California). It was originally supposed to be spelled "Lincoln" but since the band couldn't afford to buy the domain name lincolnpark.com from its owner, they changed the spelling in order to buy linkinpark.com.