All articles starting with B

Benedetta Carlini

Benedetta Carlini (1590–1661) was an Italian abbess of the Theatine convent in Pescia, Tuscany, whose reported visions of Christ were judged feigned, leading to 35 years of solitary confinement.

Benedetta Cimatti, Italian actress born 1989 in Faenza, trained at Rome's Accademia Fondamenta; known for L'Ispettore Coliandro, Doc – Nelle tue mani, and as Rachele Mussolini in M. Il figlio del secolo.

Benedetta Mennucci

Benedetta Mennucci (born 1969 in Lucca) is an Italian theoretical and physical chemist at the University of Pisa, known for developing the IEF-PCM solvation model.

Oct 21, 2026

Benedetta Pilato

Benedetta Pilato, Italian breaststroke swimmer born 2005 in Taranto; 50m breaststroke world record 29.30 (2021), 2022 world 100m champion, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympian.

Benedetto Accolti

Benedetto Accolti, called the Cardinal of Ravenna, was a Florentine cardinal, bishop, and secretary to Pope Clement VII who became a cardinal at 29 before falling from power in 1534.

Benedetto Croce

Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), Italian philosopher, historian, and critic born in Pescasseroli, died in Naples. Founder of La Critica, author of the Philosophy of Spirit and absolute historicism, author of the 1925 Manifesto of Anti-Fascist Intellectuals, minister, and founder of the Italian Institute for Historical Studies.

Benedetto Marelli

Benedetto Marelli is a materials scientist and professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT who develops silk-based biomaterials for food security and won a 2017 PECASE award.

Benedict Anchang

Benedict Anchang is a German-trained computational and systems biologist who leads the Computational and Systems Biology Group at NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Benedict Anderson

Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (1936–2015), Irish political scientist and Southeast Asia specialist at Cornell, author of Imagined Communities (1983), co-author of the Cornell Paper on Indonesia's 1965 coup, and theorist of nations as imagined communities.

Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), American Revolutionary major general and hero of Ticonderoga, Valcour Island, and Saratoga, defected to the British in 1780 in the failed West Point plot, becoming America's synonym for traitor.

Benedict Biscop

Benedict Biscop, born Biscop Baducing (c. 628–690), was a Northumbrian noble turned monk who founded the twin monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, where Bede trained.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch (born 1976, London) is a British actor known for Sherlock, Doctor Strange, The Imitation Game, and The Power of the Dog; Emmy winner, two-time Oscar nominee, LAMDA President, SunnyMarch founder.

Benedict F. Massell

Benedict F. Massell (1906–2008) was an American physician and clinical researcher who led the first study showing penicillin could prevent rheumatic fever, at the House of the Good Samaritan in Boston.

Benedict Gross

Benedict Gross (1950–2025) was an American number theorist, Harvard professor from 1985 to 2015, and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship and Cole Prize, best known for the Gross–Zagier theorem.

Benedict I

Benedict I was the 62nd pope, a Roman who reigned from 575 until his death in 579, during the Lombard invasion of Italy and a famine that besieged Rome.

Benedict II

Benedict II was the 81st pope, bishop of Rome from June 684 until his death in May 685, a Roman who secured acceptance of Christ's two wills in Spain.

Benedict III

Benedict III was the 104th pope, a Roman cardinal-priest who reigned from September 855 to his death in April 858 after a disputed election against the antipope Anastasius.

Benedict IV

Benedict IV was the 117th pope, a Roman reigning from 900 to 903, best known for crowning Louis the Blind as emperor in Rome in 901.

Benedict Joseph Flaget

Benedict Joseph Flaget (1763–1850) was a French-born Sulpician priest, the first Bishop of Bardstown from 1810 and of Louisville from 1841, remembered as the "First Bishop of the West."

Benedict of Aniane

Benedict of Aniane, born Witiza, was a Gothic noble turned monk who led Carolingian monastic reform as adviser to Emperor Louis the Pious from 814.

Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia, also known as Saint Benedict, was an Italian monk, born around 480, honored as the founder of Western monasticism and author of the Rule of Saint Benedict.

Benedict Paten

Benedict Paten is a computational biologist and professor at UC Santa Cruz who works on pangenome genomics, leading the Computational Genomics Lab and contributing to the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium.

Sep 19, 2026

Benedict Peters

Benedict Peters is a Nigerian businessman, born in 1966, who founded and leads Aiteo, an oil and gas producer built on the 2015 OML 29 purchase.

Benedict Pictet

Benedict Pictet (Bénédict Pictet, 1655–1724) was a Genevan Reformed theologian who served as pastor, professor of theology, and rector of the Academy of Geneva.

Benedict Samuel

Benedict Samuel (born 1988) is an Australian actor, writer, and director, NIDA graduate, known as Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter in Gotham and Owen in The Walking Dead, brother of actor Xavier Samuel.

Benedict Taylor (musician)

Benedict Taylor is a British violist, violinist, composer, and producer who works in free improvisation, with music for over 35 films and series including Netflix and Amazon productions.

Benedict VII

Benedict VII was the 135th pope, reigning from 974 to 983. A Roman and former bishop of Sutri, he governed in cooperation with Emperor Otto II and condemned simony.

Benedict VIII

Benedict VIII, born Theophylact, was pope from 1012 to 1024 and the first Tusculani pope; imposed by his family's force, he crowned Henry II emperor in 1014 and freed Sardinia from Muslim forces in 1016.

Benedict Welte

Benedikt Welte (1805–1885) was a German Catholic priest and Old Testament exegete who held the chair of Old Testament exegesis at Tübingen and co-edited the Kirchen-Lexikon.