Big Ben (disambiguation)
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Big Ben is the colloquial name of the Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster, in London, England. It actually refers to the main bell, which is also known as the Great Bell of Westminster, the largest bell in the tower and part of the The Great Westminster Clock.
Big Ben may also refer to:
- Big Ben (Heard Island), a massif on Heard Island
- Big Ben (horse), a Canadian show jumping horse
- Big Ben (solitaire), a solitaire card game resembling Clock Patience
- Project Big Ben, a British WWII operation to reconstruct and evaluate captured missiles such as the V-2 (see Operation Crossbow).[1]
- A model of alarm clock manufactured by Westclox
- A brand of chewing tobacco in the 1930s
- The name of a whale in the stop-motion animated special Rudolph's Shiny New Year
The nickname Big Ben may refer to:
- Ben Dunkelman, a notable Canadian veteran of the Second World War and other conflicts
- Ben Maller, a national sports radio host
- Ben Roethlisberger, the current starting quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers
- Ben Wallace, NBA player for the Chicago Bulls