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Ben Volavola
Ben Volavola, Fijian international flyhalf born in Sydney, played for the Waratahs, Crusaders, Rebels, Racing 92, Leicester Tigers, and the 2026 Queensland Reds, and signed with the Fijian Drua for 2027; Fiji World Cup veteran 2015 and 2019.
Ben W. Mol
Ben W. Mol (Ben Willem Mol) is a Dutch-born obstetrician and gynecologist at Monash University in Melbourne whose trials on frozen embryo transfer and tubal flushing changed fertility guidelines.
Ben Wa balls
Ben Wa balls, also called Kegel balls, orgasm balls, or geisha balls, are small weighted balls inserted vaginally for pelvic floor exercise or pleasure; evidence is limited and risks include pain, overactive muscles, and infection.
Ben Wadey
Ben Wadey (born 1993) is a British TV producer and executive producer of EastEnders since February 2025, succeeding Chris Clenshaw; formerly Channel 4 drama commissioning executive overseeing Hollyoaks, and previously EastEnders storyliner and Holby City story producer.
Ben Wallace (basketball)
Ben Camey Wallace (born 1974, White Hall, Alabama) is an undrafted former NBA center, 2004 Pistons champion, four-time Defensive Player of the Year, and the first undrafted Naismith Hall of Fame inductee (2021).
Ben Wallace (politician)
Robert Ben Lobban Wallace, British Conservative politician and former Scots Guards officer, MP 2005-2024; UK Security Minister 2016-2019 and Secretary of State for Defence 24 July 2019 to 31 August 2023, leading Britain's response to the Ukraine war before Grant Shapps replaced him.
Ben Wang
Ben Wang (born 2000) is a Chinese American actor; lead of Disney+'s American Born Chinese as Jin Wang and Li Fong in Karate Kid: Legends (2025), the franchise's first Asian American new Kid, with Wyatt Callow in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026) upcoming.
Ben Watkins (producer)
Ben Watkins (Benjamin Watkins, born 1971, San Francisco) is an American TV writer, producer, actor, and showrunner, creator of Prime Video's Cross and Amazon's Hand of God, distinct from the Juno Reactor musician of the same name.
Ben Watt
Ben Watt (born 1962, London) is a British musician, songwriter, DJ, and author, half of Everything But The Girl with Tracey Thorn, solo albums North Marine Drive, Hendra, Fever Dream, Storm Damage, memoirs Patient and Romany and Tom, founder of Buzzin' Fly Records.
Ben Weasel
Ben Weasel (Ben Foster), punk musician from Prospect Heights, Illinois; founder of Screeching Weasel and the Riverdales; also a Maximumrocknroll columnist, novelist, and solo artist.
Ben Webster
Ben Webster (Benjamin Francis Webster, 1909-1973), American swing-era jazz tenor saxophonist nicknamed The Brute and The Beautiful; Duke Ellington's first major tenor soloist, one of the big three with Hawkins and Young, later based in Copenhagen.
Ben Wellington
Ben Wellington is an American data scientist who runs I Quant NY, a blog analyzing New York City's open data that has prompted city policy changes.
Ben Wheatley
Ben Wheatley (Benjamin Wheatley) is an English film director born in 1972 whose work spans micro-budget horror like Kill List and the 2023 blockbuster Meg 2: The Trench.
Ben Whishaw
Ben Whishaw (Benjamin John Whishaw, born 1980) is an English actor trained at RADA; known as Q in the Bond films, the voice of Paddington, Hamlet at the Old Vic, and BAFTA, Emmy, and Critics Choice-winning TV roles.
Ben White
Ben White is a technology entrepreneur and venture investor who co-founded Notion Capital in 2009, having earlier co-founded MessageLabs, sold to Symantec in 2008 for $695 million.
Ben White (footballer)
Ben White, English defender born 1997 in Poole, plays for Arsenal, signed from Brighton for £50m in 2021 after loans at Newport, Peterborough and Leeds; 6 England caps, out with knee injury May 2026.
Ben Wikler
Ben Wikler, American progressive organizer, chaired the Democratic Party of Wisconsin 2019–2025, won 10 of 13 statewide races, raised $200 million, lost the 2025 DNC chair race to Ken Martin, and wrote This Is the Plan.
Ben Wildman Tobriner
Ben Wildman Tobriner (born 1984) is an American former competitive swimmer and physician who won gold in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Ben Willbond
Ben Willbond (Benjamin Thomas Willbond, born 1973) is an English actor and screenwriter; Perrier best newcomer 1999, Horrible Histories and Yonderland, co-writer of Bill, and co-creator and star of Ghosts as The Captain.
Ben Wilson (basketball)
Ben Wilson (Benjamin Wilson Jr., 1967-1984), called Benji, was a Simeon Career Academy basketball star from Chicago, ranked the nation's No. 1 high school player, who won the 1984 IHSA Class AA title and was fatally shot in 1984.
Ben Woodburn
Ben Woodburn (Benjamin Luke Woodburn, born 1999, Nottingham) is a Welsh midfielder, Liverpool's youngest-ever goalscorer at 17 years 45 days (November 2016), Wales debut scorer vs Austria 2017, later Preston and Salford City.
Ben Woolf
Ben Woolf (1980–2015) was an American actor with pituitary dwarfism, 4'4", who played the Infantata and Meep in American Horror Story while working as a preschool teacher; distinct from a namesake British director.
Ben Wyatt (Parks and Recreation)
Ben Wyatt is the fictional state auditor played by Adam Scott on NBC's Parks and Recreation (2009-2015); a former teen mayor of Partridge, Minnesota whose Ice Town bankruptcy, marriage to Leslie Knope, and Cones of Dunshire board game define the character.
Ben Youngs
Ben Youngs (born 1989, Aylsham) is an English rugby union scrum-half, Leicester Tigers one-club man with 332 appearances and five Premiership titles, and England's most-capped men's player with 127 caps across four World Cups; retired in 2025.
Ben Youssef Madrasa (مدرسة ابن يوسف)
Ben Youssef Madrasa (مدرسة ابن يوسف), Marrakech Quranic college founded 14th century under Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan, rebuilt by Saadian sultan Abdallah al-Ghalib 1564–1565; largest madrasa in the Maghreb, 1,680 m², about 130 student cells, restored 2018–2022.
Ben Z. Stanger
Ben Z. Stanger, also published as Ben Stanger, is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how pancreatic cancer begins and spreads.
Ben Zand
Ben Zand (Benjamin Zand, born 1991) is a British-Iranian documentary filmmaker from Liverpool, founder and CEO of ZANDLAND, RTS Young Talent of the Year 2016, maker of Kingpins, QAnon and Breaking Ranks, and creator of the self-funded YouTube series HUMAN.
Ben Zinn
Ben Zinn is a combustion engineer who joined Georgia Tech in 1965 and is known for combustion instability in rocket motors and gas turbines and for pulse combustion.
Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam
Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, born 1955, is the Rebbe of Bobov, a Hasidic dynasty headquartered in Borough Park, Brooklyn, since his half-brother Naftali died in 2005.
Ben Zion Halberstam
Ben Zion Halberstam, known as Kedushas Tzion, was the second Rebbe of the Bobov Hasidic dynasty from 1905 until he was murdered in the Holocaust in 1941.