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Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre is a British doctor, academic, and writer known for the Guardian's Bad Science column and the AllTrials campaign; he leads the Bennett Institute at Oxford.
Ben Goldsmith
Ben Goldsmith, also known as Benjamin Goldsmith, is a British financier and environmentalist who co-built the sustainability fund manager WHEB and runs the London-listed investment trust Menhaden Capital.
Ben Gordon
Ben Gordon (Benjamin Ashenafi Gordon, born 1983, London) is a retired NBA shooting guard, 3rd pick of the 2004 draft, 2005 Sixth Man of the Year, UConn 2004 NCAA champion, 744 games, 14.9 ppg.
Ben Green (mathematician)
Ben Joseph Green, born 1977 in Bristol, is a British mathematician who proved the Green–Tao theorem with Terence Tao in 2004 and is Waynflete Professor at Oxford.
Ben Griffin (golfer)
Ben Griffin (born 1996, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American PGA Tour golfer who won three times in 2025, including the Charles Schwab Challenge, and debuted for Team USA at the 2025 Ryder Cup.
Ben Grimm
Ben Grimm (Benjamin J. Grimm), the Thing of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four: co-created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, first appearing in Fantastic Four #1 (1961) as a test pilot transformed by cosmic radiation into a rock-skinned powerhouse who cannot turn off his power.
Ben Gurion Airport
Ben Gurion Airport, formally Ben Gurion International Airport and coded TLV, is Israel's main international airport near Lod, 15 kilometers from Tel Aviv, and is known for its layered security.
Ben H. Caudle
Ben H. Caudle (born 1923) was an American petroleum engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Ben Habib
Ben Habib (Benyamin Naeem Habib), British property businessman, First Property Group CEO, Brexit Party MEP 2019-20, Reform UK co-deputy leader 2023-24, founder of Advance UK in 2025, later backing Restore Britain.
Ben Haenow
Ben Haenow, English singer from Croydon, won The X Factor UK series 11 in 2014 with 57% of the vote; his single "Something I Need" was the 2014 Christmas number one.
Ben Hall (bushranger)
Ben Hall was an Australian bushranger who led a prolific gang in New South Wales in the early 1860s and took part in the Eugowra gold escort robbery.
Ben Hansen
Ben Hansen is an American politician and former Blair City Council member who has represented District 16 in the Nebraska Legislature since 2018, chairing its Executive Board.
Ben Harburg
Ben Harburg, born Benjamin D. Harburg, is an American venture capitalist and managing partner at Beijing-based MSA Capital, which manages over $2 billion and invested in Mobike and Meituan Dianping.
Ben Hardy (actor)
Ben Hardy (born Ben Jones, 1991) is an English actor known for Peter Beale in EastEnders (2013-2015), Angel in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Roger Taylor in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), and Tony Spera in The Conjuring: Last Rites.
Ben Harper
Ben Harper (Benjamin Charles Harper, born 1969, Pomona, California), American folk-blues singer-songwriter and Weissenborn lap steel player, leader of the Innocent Criminals, three-time Grammy winner with over 15 million records sold.
Ben Hebert
Ben Hebert (born 1983, Regina) is a Canadian curling lead, three-time Olympian and two-time gold medallist (Vancouver 2010 with Kevin Martin, Milano Cortina 2026 with Brad Jacobs), with four Brier and two world titles.
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht (1893/1894-1964), American journalist, playwright, and Hollywood screenwriter; won the first screenwriting Oscar for Underworld, co-wrote The Front Page, and led Bergson Group Zionist activism.
Ben Herbstreit
Ben Herbstreit was the golden retriever of ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit, a certified emotional support animal who traveled to College GameDay and Thursday Night Football from 2023 until his death from cancer on November 7, 2024, at age 10; he was succeeded by Peter.
Ben Higgins
Ben Higgins (Benjamin Edward Higgins) is an American reality television personality and entrepreneur best known as the lead of The Bachelor season 20, which aired in 2016.
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, 'The Swamp', is the University of Florida's on-campus football stadium in Gainesville; opened 1930 as Florida Field, capacity 88,548, record crowd 90,916, named for donor Ben Hill Griffin Jr., nickname coined by Steve Spurrier.
Ben Hoffman
Ben Hoffman, born Benjamin Isaac Hoffman, is an American comedian from Lexington, Kentucky who hosted Comedy Central's The Ben Show and records outlaw country as Wheeler Walker Jr.
Ben Hogan
Ben Hogan (1912–1997), American professional golfer; won 63 PGA Tour events and nine majors, completed the career Grand Slam, and in 1953 won the Masters, U.S. Open, and British Open in one year after a near-fatal 1949 bus crash.
Ben Holmes
Ben Holmes is a British venture capital investor who spent 14 years as a general partner at Index Ventures in London, backing King, Playfish, Just Eat, and iZettle.
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is an American venture capitalist and author who co-founded Loudcloud, sold it to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007, and co-founded Andreessen Horowitz in 2009.
Ben Houchen
Ben Houchen is a British Conservative politician who has served as Mayor of the Tees Valley since 2017, after leading the Conservative Group on Stockton Borough Council.
Ben Howard
Ben Howard (Benjamin John Howard, b. 1987) is an English singer-songwriter from Devon known for fingerstyle guitar in the John Martyn tradition; albums Every Kingdom, I Forget Where We Were, Noonday Dream, Collections from the Whiteout, Is It?, How Are You Feeling; two Brit Awards, Mercury nomination.
Ben Hunt Davis
Ben Hunt Davis (Benjamin Hunt-Davis, born 1972) is a British rower, MBE, who won gold in the men's eight at Sydney 2000, Britain's first win since 1912, and later co-founded the consultancy Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?.
Ben Is Back
Ben Is Back is a 2018 American drama written and directed by Peter Hedges, starring Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges as mother and son over one Christmas Eve after Ben leaves rehab; also known by its single-day structure distinguishing it from Beautiful Boy.
Ben Issa Ousseni
Ben Issa Ousseni, born 1973 in Mamoudzou, is a French politician and former accountant who was elected president of Mayotte's departmental assembly in July 2021.
Ben J. Marais
Ben J. Marais (Barend Jacobus Marais) is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist known for research on childhood tuberculosis, and Director of the Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute since 2020.