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Ben Okri
Ben Okri, born in Nigeria in 1959, is a Nigerian-born British novelist and poet whose novel The Famished Road won the 1991 Booker Prize, making him its first Black and youngest winner.
Ben Osborn
Ben Osborn (Benjamin Jarrod Osborn) is an English footballer born in Derby in 1994 who plays as a versatile left-footed midfielder, with long spells at Nottingham Forest and Sheffield United.
Ben Palmer (comedian)
Ben Palmer, alias PalmerTrolls, is an American comedian from Atlanta based in Nashville known for deadpan pranks: fake corporate accounts, the Ted Yoho Parler prank, and a fake ICE deportation tip line that drew a DHS BOLO alert in 2026.
Ben Peach
Ben Peach, or Benjamin Neeve Peach, was a British geologist with the Geological Survey who, with John Horne, proved the Northwest Highlands rocks had been thrust westward.
Ben Peters
Ben Peters is a software entrepreneur who co-founded the Mexican cryptocurrency exchange Bitso in 2014, led its technology as Chief Technology Officer, and later co-founded djinni.ai in 2024.
Ben Peterson
Ben Peterson (Benjamin Lee Peterson, born 1950, Cumberland, Wisconsin), American freestyle wrestler, Iowa State NCAA champion 1971-72; Olympic gold at 90 kg Munich 1972, silver Montreal 1976, 1980 boycotted team; brother of John Peterson.
Ben Platt
Ben Platt (Benjamin Platt), American Tony, Grammy, and Emmy-winning actor and singer, son of producer Marc Platt; originated Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway (2017 Tony), starred in Pitch Perfect, Parade, Theater Camp, and albums Sing to Me Instead, Reverie, Honeymind.
Ben Plucknett
Ben Plucknett (Walter Harrison Plucknett, born 1954) was an American discus thrower who twice broke the world record in 1981 (71.20 m Modesto, 72.34 m Stockholm), was stripped of both and banned for life for steroid use, the first athlete to lose a world record to doping.
Ben Portney
Ben Portney is an Investing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz's Bio + Health team, a biochemist who invests in early-stage therapeutic discovery platforms like Orbital Therapeutics and insitro.
Ben Potter
Ben Potter (1984–2024), known as Comicstorian, was an American YouTube creator of comic book commentary and audio drama adaptations, with over three million subscribers; he died June 8, 2024, in an accident at age 40.
Ben Powers
Ben Powers (Alton Adelbert Powers, 1950-2015) was an American actor and comedian, best known as Keith Anderson, Thelma's husband, on the final season of Good Times, and as Moochie on The New Mike Hammer.
Ben Quad
Ben Quad is an Oklahoma City emo band formed in 2018, also called Ben Quadinaros after a Star Wars character, blending Midwest emo, screamo, and math rock; albums I'm Scared That's All There Is (2022) and Wisher (2025, Pure Noise).
Ben R. Mottelson
Ben Roy Mottelson (1926–2022) was an American-Danish nuclear physicist at the Niels Bohr Institute who won a third of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Ben Rappaport
Ben Rappaport (Bennett Eli Rappaport, born 1986, Arlington, Texas) is an American actor, a Juilliard graduate and Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize winner, known for NBC's Outsourced, ABC's For the People, Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof, and Good Night, Oscar.
Ben Ray Luján
Ben Ray Luján, Democratic U.S. senator from New Mexico since 2021, former NM-3 congressman (2009–2021), DCCC chairman, House assistant speaker; won 2020 Senate race 51.7%–45.6% over Mark Ronchetti.
Ben Rector
Ben Rector (Benjamin Evans Rector), born 1986 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a Nashville-based independent singer-songwriter of piano-driven pop whose Brand New and Magic topped Billboard's Folk chart and whose ninth album is The Richest Man in the World (2025).
Ben Reilly
Ben Reilly (Benjamin Reilly) is Marvel Comics' clone of Peter Parker, first appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #149 (1975). Known as Scarlet Spider, briefly Spider-Man during the 1990s Clone Saga, killed in 1996, later Chasm, and Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir lead.
Ben Rhodes (White House staffer)
Ben Rhodes was Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Barack Obama (2009-2017), his top foreign policy speechwriter; later author of The World As It Is, co-founder of National Security Action, and Pod Save the World co-host, distinct from his brother David Rhodes.
Ben Rice
Ben Rice (Benjamin Kimball Rice, born 1999), Yankees first baseman/DH from Cohasset, Massachusetts, drafted 12th round in 2021 from Dartmouth; first Yankees rookie with a three-homer game (July 6, 2024), 2026 MLB All-Star with 41 home runs.
Ben Rich (aeronautical engineer)
Ben Rich (1925–1995) was an American aeronautical engineer who led Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1990 and supervised the stealth technology behind the F-117A fighter.
Ben Richardson
Ben Richardson, ASC BSC, is a British cinematographer and director known for Beasts of the Southern Wild, Wind River, Mare of Easttown, and Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone, 1883, and 1923.
Ben Roberts-Smith
Ben Roberts-Smith (born 1978) is an Australian former SAS soldier awarded the Victoria Cross for the 2010 Tizak action in Afghanistan. A 2023 defamation ruling found murder allegations substantially true; he was charged with five counts of war crime murder in April 2026.
Ben Roethlisberger
Ben Roethlisberger, "Big Ben," Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback 2004-2021, drafted 11th overall from Miami (Ohio); two Super Bowl wins (XL, XLIII), 64,088 passing yards, 418 touchdowns, 164-81-1 record, retired January 2022.
Ben Rosen
Ben Rosen, also known as Benjamin Rosen, was an American venture capitalist who co-founded Sevin Rosen Funds in 1981 and served as founding chairman of Compaq Computer until 2000.
Ben Rosenfield
Ben Rosenfield (born 1992, Montclair, New Jersey) is an American actor known for Willie Thompson on Boardwalk Empire, Tim Buckley in Greetings from Tim Buckley, 6 Years, Twin Peaks, and Off-Broadway stage work; distinct from comedian Ben Rosenfeld.
Ben Rothwell
Ben Rothwell ("Big", born 1981, Kenosha, Wisconsin) is an American heavyweight MMA and bare-knuckle fighter; UFC veteran (9-8), former BKFC Heavyweight Champion (2025), lost title defense to Arlovski in 2026.
Ben Rutledge
Ben Rutledge (born 1980, Cranbrook, BC) is a Canadian rower, Olympic gold medallist in the men's eight at Beijing 2008 (5:23.89), fifth at Athens 2004, three-time world champion (2002, 2003, 2007), now a Rowing Canada coach.
Ben Sana Mecburum
Ben Sana Mecburum ("I Am Bound to You") is a 1960 poetry collection by Turkish poet Attilâ İlhan, whose title poem's opening line has entered everyday recitation in Turkey.
Ben Saraf (בן שרף)
Ben Saraf (בן שרף), born 2006, is an Israeli left-handed guard drafted 26th by the Brooklyn Nets in 2025 after starring for Ratiopharm Ulm and winning 2024 FIBA U18 EuroBasket MVP.
Ben Sasse
Ben Sasse, born 1972 in Plainview, Nebraska, is a Republican former U.S. senator from Nebraska (2015-2023) and 13th University of Florida president (2023-2024), known for voting to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial.