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Benjamin B. Dunlap
Benjamin B. Dunlap is an American academic, writer, and television producer who served as the 10th president of Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, from 2000 to 2013.
Benjamin Baillaud
Benjamin Baillaud (1848–1934) was a French astronomer who directed the Toulouse and Paris observatories, led the Carte du Ciel project, and founded the International Time Bureau.
Benjamin Ball (private equity investor)
Benjamin H. Ball, known as Ben Ball, is an American private equity investor who co-founded the San Francisco technology firm Francisco Partners in 1999, now Partner Emeritus there.
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker, also known as Ben Banneker, was a free African American astronomer, mathematician, and surveyor in Maryland who published almanacs from 1792 to 1797.
Benjamin Barber
Benjamin R. Barber (1939–2017) was an American political theorist at Rutgers known for "strong democracy" and Jihad vs. McWorld, and founder of the Global Parliament of Mayors.
Benjamin Bauer
Benjamin Bauer, born Benjamin Baumzweiger (1913–1979), was an American acoustics engineer who invented the Uniphase principle behind the Shure Unidyne cardioid microphone and developed the SQ quadraphonic matrix at CBS.
Benjamin Besse
Benjamin Besse is a French medical oncologist specializing in thoracic cancers, Director of Clinical Research at Gustave Roussy since 2021 and known for biomarker-directed lung cancer trials.
Benjamin Black (investor)
Benjamin Black, known as Ben Black, is an American venture investor who co-founded Akkadian Ventures in 2010, a San Francisco firm buying private-company shares in direct secondaries.
Benjamin Blander
Benjamin Blander is an American quantitative trader who co-founded Radix Trading, a Chicago proprietary trading firm, after leading Citadel's high-frequency trading group; he holds a mathematics PhD from the University of Chicago.
Benjamin Blencowe
Benjamin J. Blencowe is an RNA biologist and Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, known for mapping alternative splicing and discovering neuronal microexons misregulated in autism.
Benjamin Bloom
Benjamin S. Bloom (1913–1999) was an American educational psychologist at the University of Chicago who led the creation of Bloom's taxonomy, developed mastery learning, and framed the 2 sigma problem.
Benjamin Bolger
Benjamin B. Bolger, born 1975, American perpetual student and admissions consultant with 14 to 16 advanced degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, and others, despite severe dyslexia.
Benjamin Brafman
Benjamin Brafman, New York criminal defense lawyer and principal of Brafman & Associates, P.C.; former Manhattan ADA (Rackets Bureau). Known for white-collar and high-profile defense, including Sean Combs' 1999 acquittal and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Benjamin Brantlind
Benjamin Brantlind, Swedish central midfielder born 2008 in Göteborg; IFK Göteborg academy product and club's youngest-ever player, sold to RC Strasbourg Alsace in July 2026 for a reported 11–20+ million SEK.
Benjamin Bratt
Benjamin Bratt (born 1963, San Francisco) is an American actor and producer, Emmy-nominated as Detective Rey Curtis on Law & Order, known for Traffic, Miss Congeniality, Piñero, and voicing Ernesto de la Cruz in Coco, and for Native American activism.
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851–1921) was an American Presbyterian theologian who held Princeton Seminary's chair of didactic and polemic theology from 1887 until his death, defining modern biblical inerrancy.
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist whose opera Peter Grimes (1945) revived English opera; he also wrote the War Requiem and founded the Aldeburgh Festival.
Benjamin Bronfman
Benjamin Bronfman, known as Ben Brewer, is an American cleantech investor and former musician, best known as a founding partner of the direct air capture company Global Thermostat.
Benjamin Burnley
Benjamin Burnley (Benjamin Jackson Burnley IV), born 1978 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter of Breaking Benjamin, known for Diary of Jane, So Cold, and Blow Me Away.
Benjamin Burombo
Benjamin Burombo (1909–1958) was a Zimbabwean trade unionist and early African nationalist who founded the British African National Voice Association (BANVA) and helped organize the 1948 country-wide African strike in colonial Rhodesia.
Benjamin Burrows
Benjamin Burrows (1927–2002) was an American pulmonary physician-scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, known for epidemiological research on COPD and obstructive airway disease.
Benjamin Butler
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818–1893), Union major general, Massachusetts politician, and "Contraband Decision" author at Fort Monroe; military governor of New Orleans (General Order No. 28), Johnson impeachment manager, and 1884 Greenback presidential candidate.
Benjamin C. K. Tee
Benjamin C. K. Tee (Tee Chee Keong) is a Singapore-based materials scientist and professor at the National University of Singapore known for self-healing electronic skin sensors.
Benjamin Chavis
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. (Benjamin Chavis Muhammad), born 1948, is a civil rights leader, Wilmington Ten member, former NAACP executive director, Million Man March organizer, and current president and CEO of the NNPA.
Benjamin Chew Howard
Benjamin Chew Howard (1791–1872) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Maryland who served four terms in Congress and was the Supreme Court's Reporter of Decisions from 1843 to 1862.
Benjamin Clementine
Benjamin Clementine (Benjamin Sainte-Clementine), born 1988 in London, is a British pianist, singer-songwriter, poet, and actor who busked in Paris before winning the 2015 Mercury Prize for At Least for Now; later albums I Tell a Fly and And I Have Been, plus roles in Dune and Blitz.
Benjamin Cleveland
Benjamin Cleveland (1738–1806), also spelled Cleaveland, was a Patriot militia colonel of Wilkes County, North Carolina, a Whig leader at Kings Mountain, and a harsh suppressor of Loyalists who later moved to South Carolina.
Benjamin Constant
Benjamin Constant (Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, 1767–1830), Swiss-born French liberal theorist, politician, novelist (Adolphe), and historian of religion; author of the 1819 lecture on ancient versus modern liberty and Principes de politique (1815).
Benjamin Constant (Brazilian military officer and republican leader)
Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães (1837–1891) was a Brazilian army officer, mathematician, and positivist who organized the 1889 coup that deposed the Empire and proclaimed the republic.
Benjamin Crump
Benjamin (Ben) Crump, American civil rights and personal injury attorney based in Tallahassee, Florida; founder of Ben Crump Law. Known as "Black America's Attorney General"; represented families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor; won $641M Flint settlement and $27M Floyd settlement.