Namesakes
Amar'e Stoudemire
(middle name Ben) (m) 1982- 
Notable Athletes (basketball)
Olympic Medalists 2004 basketball (bronze)
Ben Hogan
(m) 1912-1997
Notable Athletes (golf)
Ben
(m)
Fictional Characters from Song Titles 1972 Ben
Ben
(m)
Fictional Characters from Song Titles 1988 Ben's Song
Ben Adams
(m) 1890-1961
Olympic Medalists 1912 high jump - standing; long jump - standing (silver/bronze)
Ben Affleck
(m) 1972-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Notable Filmmakers
Ben Ainslie
(m) 1977-
Olympic Medalists 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012 sailing (silver/gold)
Ben Aldridge
(m) 1985-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Barnes
(m) 1981-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Bernanke
(m) 1953-
Nobel Prize Winners 2022 (economics)
Notable Philosophers and Thinkers
Ben Bot
(m) 1937-
Notable Politicians and Statespeople
Ben Browder
(m) 1962-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Carrington
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 1981 Dynasty
Ben Cartwright
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 1959 Bonanza
Ben Chaplin
(m) 1969-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Chifley
(m) 1885-1951
Australian Prime Ministers 1945-1949
Ben Cohen
(m) 1951-
Notable Businesspeople
Ben Covington
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 1998 Felicity
Ben Cross
(m) 1947-2020
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Daniels
(m) 1964-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Davies
(m) 1993-
Notable Athletes (soccer)
Ben Eastman
(m) 1911-2002
Olympic Medalists 1932 400 m (silver)
Ben Edwards
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 1989 Baywatch
Ben Faulkner
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 2004 Desperate Housewives
Ben Feldman
(m) 1980-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Feringa
(m) 1951-
Nobel Prize Winners 2016 (chemistry)
Ben Foster
(m) 1980-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Foster
(m) 1983-
Notable Athletes (soccer)
Ben Franks
(m) 1984-
Notable Athletes (rugby)
Ben Gazzara
(m) 1930-2012
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Gunn
(m)
Fictional Characters from Books 1883 Treasure Island
Ben Hall
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 2001 McLeod's Daughters
Ben Halloran
(m) 1992-
Notable Athletes (soccer)
Ben Harmon
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 2011 American Horror Story: Murder House
Ben Hedges Jr
(m) 1907-1969
Olympic Medalists 1928 high jump (silver)
Ben Henrickson
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 2006 Big Love
Ben Jipcho
(m) 1943-2020
Olympic Medalists 1972 3000 m steeplechase (silver)
Ben Johnson
(m) 1918-1996
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Oscar Award Winners 1972 The Last Picture Show (actor)
Ben Johnson
(m) 1961-
Olympic Medalists 1984 100 m; 4x100 m relay (bronze)
Ben Jonson
(m) 1572-1637
Notable Writers
Ben E. King
(m) 1938-2015
Notable Musicians
Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famers 1988 The Drifters
Ben Kingsley
(m) 1943-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Oscar Award Winners 1983 Gandhi (actor)
Ben Kinkirk
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 1996 7th Heaven
Ben Lawson
(m) 1980-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Linus
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 2004 Lost
Ben Maher
(m) 1983-
Olympic Medalists 2012 equestrian (gold)
Ben Matlock
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 1986 Matlock
Ben McCalman
(m) 1988-
Notable Athletes (rugby)
Ben McKenzie
(m) 1978-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Mendelsohn
(m) 1969-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Miles
(m) 1966-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Morgan
(m) 1989-
Notable Athletes (rugby)
Ben Roy Mottelson
(m) 1926-2022
Nobel Prize Winners 1975 (physics)
Notable Scientists and Inventors
Ben Murphy
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 2016 The Family
Ben Okri
(m) 1959-
Notable Writers
Ben Rappaport
(m) 1986-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Savage
(m) 1980-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Seaver
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 1985 Growing Pains
Ben Sheets
(m) 1978-
Olympic Medalists 2000 baseball (gold)
Ben Shenkman
(m) 1968-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Smith
(m) 1986-
Notable Athletes (rugby)
Ben Sombogaart
(m) 1947-
Notable Filmmakers
Ben Spijkers
(m) 1961-
Olympic Medalists 1988 judo (bronze)
Ben Stein
(m) 1944-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Stiller
(m) 1965-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Stone
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 1990 Law & Order
Ben Taylor
(m) 1888-1953
Hall-of-Famers 2006 (baseball)
Ben Vereen
(m) 1946-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Volavola
(m) 1991-
Notable Athletes (rugby)
Ben Wallace
(m) 1974-
Hall-of-Famers 2021 (basketball)
Ben Walton
(m)
Fictional Characters from Movies 1971 The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Fictional Characters from Television 1972 The Waltons
Ben Weston
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 1965 Days of Our Lives
Ben Whishaw
(m) 1980-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Ben Wigmore
(m) 1982-
Olympic Medalists 2004 baseball (silver)
Ben Wijnstekers
(m) 1955-
Notable Athletes (soccer)
Ben Wildman-Tobriner
(m) 1984-
Olympic Medalists 2008 swimming - 4x100 m freestyle relay (gold)
Ben Youngs
(m) 1989-
Notable Athletes (rugby)
Benjamin Franklin
(a.k.a. Ben) (m) 1706-1790
Notable Politicians and Statespeople
Nassim Ben Khalifa
(m) 1992-
Notable Athletes (soccer)
Obi-Wan Kenobi
(a.k.a. Ben) (m)
Fictional Characters from Movies 1977 Star Wars
Stanley B. Prusiner
(middle name Ben) (m) 1942-
Nobel Prize Winners 1997 (medicine)