Ben
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Pronunciation | Ben |
Gender | Male |
Related names | Benjamin, Benedict |
Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Ben |
For other uses, see Ben (disambiguation).
Ben is often a shortened version of the given name Benjamin or Benedict. "Ben", Hebrew for "son of", common in inscriptions on gravestones.
People with the given name Ben
- Ben Adams, member of the British boy band A1
- Ben Affleck, American actor and screenwriter
- Ben (singer), German singer (Bernhard Albrecht Matthias Lasse Blümel)
- Benjamin Brafman, criminal defense attorney
- Benjamin Burnley, American musician, founder of the band Breaking Benjamin
- Ben Carson, American surgeon and mortivational speaker
- Ben Cohen (businessman), co-creator of Ben & Jerry's
- Ben Cohen (rugby player), an English rugby union player
- Ben Cohen (bridge player), an author, publisher and distributor of bridge books and stationery supplies.
- Ben Coleman, former basketball player
- Ben Crenshaw, PGA Tour golfer
- Ben Fayot, Luxembourgian politician
- Ben Folds, singer-songwriter
- Benjamin Franklin, American inventor and founding father
- Ben Gibbard, lead singer from the indie-pop band Death Cab for Cutie
- Benny Goodman, American jazz musician and bandleader
- Ben Hall, film director
- Ben Harper, American musician
- Ben Henderson English rock Musician
- Ben Hogan, PGA Tour golfer
- Ben Kingsley, British actor
- Benjamin Kowalewicz, Lead singer of Canadian punk band Billy Talent
- Ben Kweller, American rock musician
- Ben Ownby, American kidnap victim
- Ben Plucknett (1954-2002), American discus thrower
- Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback
- Ben Sheets, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Ben Spijkers, Dutch judoka
- Ben Stein, law professor, economist, writer and actor
- Ben Stiller, American actor, writer and director
- Ben Templeton, co-creator of the comic strip, Motley's Crew
- Ben Verweij (1895-1951), Dutch footballer
See also
- Ben Brown (disambiguation page)