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Ben Jacobs (hedge fund manager)
Ben Jacobs, full name Benjamin Jacobs, is an American hedge fund manager who founded Anomaly Capital Management in New York in 2019 after a decade at Viking Global Investors.
Ben Jipcho
Ben Jipcho (Benjamin Wabura Jipcho, 1943–2020), Kenyan steeplechase runner and 1972 Olympic silver medalist; pacesetter for Kip Keino's 1968 1500m gold; set 3000m steeplechase world records in 1973.
Ben Johnson (actor)
Ben Johnson (1918-1996), American Western character actor, stuntman, and 1953 PRCA world champion team roper; won the 1971 Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Sam the Lion in The Last Picture Show.
Ben Johnson (American football coach)
Ben Johnson (born 1986, Charleston, SC) is the Chicago Bears head coach since January 2025, formerly Detroit Lions offensive coordinator 2022-24; 2025 Bears went 11-6, won NFC North.
Ben Johnson (Canadian sprinter)
Ben Johnson (Benjamin Sinclair Johnson Jr., born 1961, Falmouth, Jamaica) is a Canadian sprinter who won the 1988 Seoul Olympic 100m in a 9.79 world record, then was stripped of gold for stanozolol and banned for life in 1993.
Ben Jones (olympedia 12193)
Ben Jones (Reuben Samuel Jones, 1932–1990), Olympedia athlete 12193, British Army sergeant and eventing rider; first NCO to ride Olympic equestrian for Great Britain, ninth at Tokyo 1964, fifth and team gold at Mexico City 1968. Distinct from the 1908 cyclist Ben Jones.
Ben Jones (olympedia 14948)
Ben Jones (Benjamin Jones, 1882–1963), British track cyclist, Olympedia athlete 14948; won 1908 Olympic gold in 5,000 m and team pursuit plus 20 km silver; distinct from equestrian Reuben "Ben" Jones.
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English Renaissance playwright, poet, and masque writer second only to Shakespeare; author of Volpone and The Alchemist, publisher of the 1616 Workes, and informal first Poet Laureate.
Ben Jorgensen
Ben Jorgensen is an American rock singer and guitarist, born in 1983 in New Jersey. He is best known as the founder of the emo band Armor For Sleep.
Ben Joyce (actor)
Ben Joyce is a Welsh actor from Swansea, trained at Mountview Academy (graduated 2021), who made his West End debut as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys (Trafalgar Theatre, 2021) and later played Marty McFly in Back to the Future The Musical at the Adelphi. Not to be confused with James Nelson-Joyce or other namesakes.
Ben Kindel
Ben Kindel (born 2007, Coquitlam, BC) is a Canadian center for the Pittsburgh Penguins, drafted 11th overall in 2025 from the WHL's Calgary Hitmen after a 99-point season; NHL rookie with 35 points in 2025-26.
Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley (Krishna Pandit Bhanji, born 1943) is a British actor, Oscar winner for Gandhi (1982), knighted 2002, known for Sexy Beast, Schindler's List, and Marvel's Trevor Slattery.
Ben Kissel
Ben Kissel, American podcaster and comedian, co-creator and former co-host of the true-crime comedy podcast Last Podcast on the Left (2011–2023), host of Abe Lincoln's Top Hat and Ben Kissel Politics, co-author of The Last Book on the Left, and 2017 Brooklyn Borough President candidate.
Ben Klock
Ben Klock, born 1972 in Berlin, is a German techno DJ and producer, a Berghain resident since 2005 famed for ten-hour sets, with debut album One in 2009.
Ben Koldyke
Ben Koldyke (Benjamin Koldyke, born 1968, Chicago) is an American actor known for Don Frank on How I Met Your Mother, Lee Standish in Work It, and Greg Gibbon on Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, plus The Finest Hours.
Ben Kortlang
Ben Kortlang (Benjamin John Kortlang) is a co-founding partner of G2 Venture Partners, which invests in the sustainable transformation of traditional industries, after leading Kleiner Perkins' $1 billion Green Growth Fund.
Ben Kramer
Ben Kramer is an American Democratic politician, a Maryland State Senator for District 19 since 2019 who previously served in the House of Delegates from 2006.
Ben Kweller
Ben Kweller (born 1981) is an American indie rock singer-songwriter from Greenville, Texas, formerly of Radish; solo albums include Sha Sha (2002), On My Way (2004), and Cover the Mirrors (2025).
Ben L. Feringa
Ben Feringa is a Dutch chemist at the University of Groningen known for molecular motors and switches, who shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Ben l'Oncle Soul
Ben l'Oncle Soul is the stage name of Benjamin Duterde, a French soul singer born in 1984 in Tours, who broke through with his 2010 album and hit "Soulman".
Ben Langmead
Ben Langmead is an American computational biologist and professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, known for the Bowtie aligners, HISAT, and Kraken 2.
Ben Lawson
Ben Lawson (born 1980, Brisbane) is an Australian actor and writer, a NIDA graduate known as Frazer Yeats on Neighbours, Johnny Ryan on Firefly Lane, and Lachlan Murdoch in Bombshell; distinct from musicians, directors, and data scientists of the same name.
Ben Leadsom
Ben Leadsom is a British finance executive and former Barclays banker who runs the secretive London quantitative trading firm G-Research as its chief executive officer.
Ben Lee
Ben Lee (Benjamin Lee, born 1978) is an Australian singer-songwriter, ex-Noise Addict frontman, four-time ARIA winner known for Awake Is the New Sleep, Catch My Disease, and Weirder Together podcast with Ione Skye.
Ben Lehner
Ben Lehner is a geneticist who studies genetic robustness and how genomes predict traits. He leads Generative Genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and is a Royal Society Fellow.
Ben Leo
Ben Leo (born 1989) is a British journalist and GB News presenter, Chief US Correspondent hosting The Late Show Live from Washington DC; formerly of The Argus Brighton, The Sun, and Dan Wootton Tonight; distinct from the CGD development-policy namesake.
Ben Leonberg
Ben Leonberg (born 1987) is an American film and VR director, Columbia University MFA, best known for directing Good Boy (2025), the $70,000 dog-POV horror hit starring his own dog Indy.
Ben Levin
Ben Levin, born Benjamin Smith Levin, is an investor who co-founded the New York growth equity firm Level Equity in 2009 and serves as its chief executive officer.
Ben Liebrand
Ben Liebrand is a Dutch DJ, remixer, and producer, a European pioneer of mixing dance music who created "In The Mix" in 1983 and the annual Grandmix year-end megamix.
Ben Linus
Ben Linus is a fictional character on ABC's Lost, portrayed by Michael Emerson; introduced as Henry Gale, leader of the Others, main villain of Seasons 2-3 turned anti-hero, with a 2009 Emmy for Emerson and a DVD epilogue.