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Benjamin Guggenheim
Benjamin Guggenheim was an American mining and smelting industrialist, fifth son of Meyer Guggenheim, who left the family business and died aboard the Titanic in 1912, dressed in evening wear.
Benjamin Guinness
Benjamin Guinness, also known as Benjamin Lee Guinness, was a Dublin brewer who built the Guinness export trade and funded the £150,000 restoration of St Patrick's Cathedral.
Benjamin Guinness II
Benjamin Guinness II, also known as Benjamin Lee Guinness, was an Irish-born British Army captain in the Royal Horse Guards, second son of the Dublin brewer Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness.
Benjamin H. Landing
Benjamin H. Landing (1920–2000) was an American pediatric pathologist, a founder of pediatric pathology, who led the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles laboratories from 1961.
Benjamin H. Settle
Benjamin H. Settle, also known as Benjamin Hale Settle, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Western District of Washington, appointed by George W. Bush in 2007.
Benjamin Haddad
Benjamin Haddad is a French politician who joined Macron's movement in 2017, was elected to the National Assembly in 2022, and serves as Minister delegate for Europe.
Benjamin Haibe‐Kains
Benjamin Haibe-Kains is a Canadian-based computational biologist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, known for a 2013 Nature paper showing that large pharmacogenomic datasets disagreed.
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901), 23rd U.S. president (1889–1893), grandson of William Henry Harrison, Indiana Republican senator and Union brigadier general; won 1888 electoral vote while losing popular vote; signed Sherman Antitrust Act.
Benjamin Harrison V
Benjamin Harrison V (1726–1791), Virginia planter at Berkeley Plantation, Declaration of Independence signer, chair of the July 1776 independence debate, governor of Virginia 1781–1784, and father of President William Henry Harrison.
Benjamin Harrison Willier
Benjamin Harrison Willier (1890–1972) was an American experimental embryologist who chaired zoology at Johns Hopkins and showed that pigment cells arise from the neural crest.
Benjamin Henrichs
Benjamin Paa Kwesi Henrichs, born 1997 in Bocholt, German right-back for RB Leipzig; ex-Bayer Leverkusen and AS Monaco; 2017 Confederations Cup winner, two-time DFB-Pokal winner, 19 Germany caps.
Benjamin Hoadly
Benjamin Hoadly (1676–1761) was an English Anglican bishop and Whig political writer, successively Bishop of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester, whose 1717 sermon before George I ignited the Bangorian Controversy.
Benjamin Hornigold
Benjamin Hornigold, also known as Ben Hornigold, was an English pirate of the Bahamas who mentored Blackbeard, then became a pirate hunter after taking the King's pardon in 1718.
Benjamin Hoskins Paddock
Benjamin Hoskins Paddock (1926–1998), also Patrick Benjamin Paddock, American bank robber, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #302 from 1969 to 1977; escaped La Tuna prison, captured 1978 in Oregon as Bruce Ericksen; father of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock.
Benjamin Ingham
Benjamin Ingham (1712–1772) was a Yorkshire evangelist who joined the Wesley brothers' Oxford Methodist band, served as a missionary in Georgia, and founded the Inghamite societies.
Benjamin Izar
Benjamin Izar is a German-born medical oncologist and cancer researcher at Columbia University who studies tumor single-cell genomics and resistance to immunotherapy, with a clinical focus on melanoma.
Benjamin J. Beaton
Benjamin J. Beaton, born in 1981 in Paducah, Kentucky, is a United States district judge for the Western District of Kentucky, appointed by President Trump in 2020.
Benjamin J. Cheeks
Benjamin Jerome Cheeks, born 1977 in Albany, Georgia, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of California, confirmed in 2024 and seated since 2025.
Benjamin J. Luft
Benjamin J. Luft is an infectious-disease physician-scientist at Stony Brook University, known for toxoplasmosis in AIDS, Lyme disease, and directing the World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program.
Benjamin J. Marsland
Benjamin J. Marsland is a New Zealand-born immunologist and professor at Monash University in Melbourne who studies how gut and lung microbes shape asthma and lung transplant failure.
Benjamin J. Raphael
Benjamin J. Raphael is a computational biologist and computer scientist, professor at Princeton University since 2016 and previously at Brown, known for algorithms used in TCGA and ICGC cancer projects.
Benjamin J. Schwartz
Benjamin J. Schwartz is an American physical chemist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA, on the faculty since 1997, known for his work on the hydrated electron and semiconducting polymers.
Benjamin Jamieson
Benjamin Jamieson (1874-1915), Canadian lacrosse player with the Winnipeg Shamrocks; won gold in men's lacrosse at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, beating St. Louis AAA 8-2; later a Canadian Pacific Railway conductor.
Benjamin John McCall
Benjamin John McCall is an American chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for ultrasensitive spectroscopy of molecular ions, especially triatomic hydrogen (H₃⁺), linking laboratory measurements to interstellar astronomy.
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool is an American energy policy and energy justice scholar, professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University since 2022, known for the energy justice framework.
Benjamin Karl
Benjamin Martin Karl (born 1985, Sankt Pölten) is an Austrian parallel snowboarder, five-time world champion, and Olympic PGS champion at Beijing 2022 and Milano Cortina 2026, with silver 2010 and bronze 2014.
Benjamin Kennicott
Benjamin Kennicott (1718–1783) was an English Anglican clergyman and Biblical scholar at Oxford who organized the first large-scale collation of Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts, published as the Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum.
Benjamin Kerr
Benjamin Kerr is an American evolutionary biologist and Professor of Biology at the University of Washington, known for experimental and theoretical work on cooperation and eco-evolutionary dynamics.
Benjamin Kleibrink
Benjamin Kleibrink (born 1985, Düsseldorf), German left-handed foil fencer; Olympic individual gold Beijing 2008 beating Yuki Ota 15–9, team bronze London 2012, five-time German champion, later DFB leading national coach for men's foil.
Benjamin Kračun
Benjamin Kračun is a Scottish cinematographer born in 1981. He is known for his work on The Substance and won the 2024 European Film Award for Cinematography.