All articles starting with B

Benin national football team

Benin national football team, the Cheetahs (formerly Squirrels), Benin's CAF men's side. Five AFCON appearances since 2004, 2019 quarter-finals, first AFCON win in 2025, coached by Gernot Rohr.

Benin plaque of the Oba and attendants

The Benin plaque of the Oba and attendants is a 16th-century cast-brass relief from Benin City showing the oba, or king, flanked by arm-supporting attendants.

Benin's transition to democracy (1989–1991) peacefully replaced Kérékou's Marxist-Leninist single-party regime via the 1990 National Conference and 1991 elections won by Nicéphore Soglo, making Benin a pioneer of democratization in sub-Saharan Africa.

Benin–Delta trade

Benin–Delta trade is the commerce connecting Benin, from the historical Benin Kingdom to the modern republic, with the Niger Delta, historically in pepper, ivory, and enslaved people.

Benin–Portugal relations

Benin–Portugal relations cover two linked histories: Portuguese trade and diplomacy with the Kingdom of Benin in present-day Nigeria from 1472, and contemporary relations with the Republic of Benin.

Beniowski

Beniowski is a digressive poem by the Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, written between 1840 and 1846, inspired by Byron's Don Juan and modeled on adventurer Maurycy Beniowski.

Oct 21, 2026

Benita Fitzgerald Brown

Benita Fitzgerald Brown (Benita Fitzgerald Mosley), born 1961, American hurdler who won the 1984 Olympic 100 m hurdles gold in 12.84; first African-American woman to win the event; later USATF, USOC, and SafeSport executive.

Sep 27, 2026

Benita Y. Pearson

Benita Yalonda Pearson is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio since 2010, appointed by President Barack Obama.

Benito Cereno

Benito Cereno is an 1855 novella by Herman Melville, serialized in Putnam's Monthly Magazine, in which an American captain boards a Spanish slave ship and misreads its mutiny.

Benito Garozzo

Benito Garozzo (born 1927, Naples), Italian bridge player of the Blue Team; 13 world titles, 7 Bermuda Bowls with Forquet, Super Precision co-developer, EBL Hall of Fame 2017.

Benito Jerónimo Feijoo

Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, also spelled Feyjóo, was a Galician Benedictine monk and essayist whose attack on common errors made him a leading figure of the Spanish Enlightenment.

Benito Juárez

Benito Juárez (Benito Pablo Juárez García, 1806–1872), Zapotec-born liberal president of Mexico (1858–1872), author of the Ley Juárez, leader of the Reforma and resistance to Maximilian's French-backed empire, executed Maximilian in 1867, declared Benemérito de la Patria.

Benito Lynch

Benito Lynch (Benito Eduardo Lynch) was an Argentine novelist and short-story writer of gauchesca literature, known for Los caranchos de La Florida and El inglés de los güesos.

Benito Martinez (actor)

Benito Martinez, also credited as Benito James Martinez, is an American actor born 1971 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, best known as Captain David Aceveda on The Shield and for multiple roles in American Crime.

Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini (1883–1945), also called Il Duce, Italian politician and founder of fascism; socialist editor of Avanti!, founded the Fasci in 1919, ruled Italy 1922–1943, allied with Hitler, executed by partisans in 1945.

Benito Pérez Galdós

Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), Spanish Realist novelist, dramatist and Republican politician from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, considered Spain's greatest novelist after Cervantes; author of the 46-volume Episodios nacionales and Fortunata y Jacinta.

Benito Skinner

Benito Skinner, known online as Benny Drama (@bennydrama7), is an American comedian and actor from Idaho whose viral celebrity impressions led to the A24-produced Prime Video coming-out comedy Overcompensating, renewed for season 2.

Benjaman Kyle

Benjaman Kyle, aka Burger King Doe, later William Burgess Powell, an American man found beaten and amnesiac behind a Georgia Burger King in 2004, unidentified until 2015 DNA genealogy.

Oct 10, 2026

Benjamin (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople)

Benjamin I, born on Lesvos in 1871, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1936 until his death in 1946, healing schisms and navigating wartime diplomacy in Kemalist Turkey.

Benjamin (בנימין)

Benjamin, also known as Binyamin (בנימין), is the youngest son of Jacob and Rachel in the Hebrew Bible and ancestor of the Tribe of Benjamin.

Benjamin A. Alman

Benjamin A. Alman is an orthopedic surgeon and clinician-scientist who has chaired orthopedic surgery at Duke University since 2013, researching cartilage tumors, fracture repair, and osteoarthritis.

Benjamin A. Barnes

Benjamin A. Barnes was a surgeon and health-services researcher at Massachusetts General and Peter Bent Brigham hospitals in Boston, known for the 1977 book Costs, Risks and Benefits of Surgery.

Benjamin A. Cosgrove

Benjamin A. Cosgrove (1926–2006) was an American aeronautical engineer who spent 44 years at Boeing and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992.

Benjamin A. Lipsky

Benjamin A. Lipsky is an American infectious diseases physician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington who chaired IDSA and IWGDF diabetic foot infection guidelines and led the 2005 SIDESTEP trial.

Benjamin A. Mazin

Benjamin A. Mazin is an American experimental physicist at UC Santa Barbara who develops superconducting photon detectors, best known for microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs), including the MEC exoplanet camera at the Subaru Telescope.

Benjamin Alexander

Benjamin Alexander was a physician-scientist in blood coagulation research at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for describing serum prothrombin conversion accelerator (SPCA) in 1949.

Benjamin Apthorp Gould

Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824–1896) was an American astronomer who founded The Astronomical Journal in 1849 and directed Argentina's Córdoba Observatory, producing the Uranometria Argentina star catalog.

Benjamín Arellano Félix

Benjamín Arellano Félix (aliases El Min, El Colores), Sinaloa-born leader of the Tijuana Cartel (Arellano Félix Organization); arrested in Puebla in 2002, extradited to the US in 2011, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years.

Benjamin Arthur (footballer)

Benjamin Kristian Arthur (born 2005) is an English centre-back at Brentford, on loan at Portsmouth for 2026/27 after a Celtic loan; England U18-U20 and Ghana-eligible.