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Benjamin L. Ebert
Benjamin L. Ebert is an American physician-scientist in hematology known for research on clonal hematopoiesis and myelodysplastic syndromes, and President and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 2024.
Benjamin Lax
Benjamin Lax (1915–2015) was a Hungarian-born American physicist who pioneered cyclotron resonance studies of semiconductors at MIT and founded the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was an American linguist and Hartford fire insurance engineer who studied Hopi at Yale and gave his name to the principle of linguistic relativity.
Benjamin Lepak
Benjamin Lepak is an American Republican politician and lawyer serving as Secretary of State of Oklahoma since 2025, having previously served as general counsel to Governor Kevin Stitt.
Benjamin Lev
Benjamin L. Lev is an American experimental physicist at Stanford University working in quantum optics and quantum many-body physics, known for the first quantum gases of dysprosium.
Benjamin Libet
Benjamin Libet (1916–2007) was an American physiologist and neuroscientist who spent nearly 50 years at UCSF and is known for the Libet experiments on free will and conscious awareness.
Benjamin Lincoln Robinson
Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1864–1935) was an American systematic botanist who led Harvard's Gray Herbarium for 43 years, became its first Asa Gray Professor in 1899, and founded the journal Rhodora.
Benjamin Ling
Benjamin Ling, known as Ben Ling, is an American venture capitalist who founded the seed firm Bling Capital in 2018 after serving as a general partner at Khosla Ventures.
Benjamin List
Benjamin List, also known as Ben List, is a German chemist who directs the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung and shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.
Benjamin M. Banks
Benjamin M. Banks was an American gastroenterologist and clinical investigator at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School, known for research on ulcerative colitis and serum leucine aminopeptidase diagnostics.
Benjamin M. Flowers
Benjamin M. Flowers, Ohio's 10th Solicitor General (2019-2023), argued the state's major appeals including its 2019 abortion ban; partner at Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers; confirmed to the Sixth Circuit in July 2026.
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale is a statistical geneticist at the Broad Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, known for LD Score regression and psychiatric genomics.
Benjamin M. Scirica
Benjamin M. Scirica is an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he has practiced since 1999.
Benjamin Magalong
Benjamin Bañez Magalong (born 1960) is a Filipino retired police deputy director general and NPC politician serving as Baguio City mayor since 2019, known for the SAF 44 board of inquiry, Mayors for Good Governance, and a brief 2025 ICI adviser role.
Benjamin Mascolo
Benjamin Mascolo (born 1993, Modena), also known as Benji and B3N, Italian singer-guitarist and actor; half of pop duo Benji & Fede, solo artist behind the 2021 EP California, and lead in the films Time Is Up and After Everything.
Benjamin Mazar
Benjamin Mazar, born Benjamin Maisler (1906–1995), was an Israeli historian and biblical archaeologist who directed the large-scale excavations at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after 1967.
Benjamin McCulloch
Benjamin McCulloch (1811–1862), "Ol' Ben," Texas Ranger, San Jacinto veteran, Zachary Taylor's chief of scouts, U.S. marshal, and Confederate brigadier general killed at Pea Ridge on March 7, 1862.
Benjamin Mendy
Benjamin Mendy, born 1994, French left-back; 2018 World Cup winner, Monaco Ligue 1 champion, £52m Manchester City signing; acquitted of all rape charges in 2023; now at Pogoń Szczecin.
Benjamin Millepied
Benjamin Millepied, born 1977 in Bordeaux, is a French choreographer and former New York City Ballet principal, ex-Director of Dance at the Paris Opera, founder of L.A. Dance Project, and Black Swan choreographer.
Benjamin Minge Duggar
Benjamin Minge Duggar (1872–1956) was an American plant physiologist and mycologist who wrote the first U.S. plant pathology textbook and discovered Aureomycin, the first tetracycline antibiotic.
Benjamin Mirus
Benjamin B. Mirus is an American research geologist with the USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center in Golden, Colorado, and a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award recipient.
Benjamin Moore & Co.
Benjamin Moore & Co. is an American manufacturer of premium paints, stains, and coatings, founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883 and a wholly owned Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary since 2001.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938), American jurist, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1926–1932 and U.S. Supreme Court justice 1932–1938; author of MacPherson, Palsgraf, and The Nature of the Judicial Process.
Benjamin Neel
Benjamin Neel is an American cancer biologist known for work on PTP1B and SHP2 signaling and cancer genomics, who directed the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu (בנימין נתניהו), Likud leader and Israel's longest-serving prime minister (1996–99, 2009–21, 2022–), covering his elections, economic and security policies, Gaza war, ICC warrant, and corruption trial.
Benjamin Newton Duke
Benjamin Newton Duke was an American tobacco and power industrialist of Durham, North Carolina, and the primary benefactor of Trinity College, forerunner of Duke University.
Benjamin Nye
Benjamin Nye is an American venture investor who spent 19 years as co-managing partner of Bain Capital Ventures, then left in 2023 to found the seed firm Venture Guides.
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (1912-2002), West Point 1936 graduate and commander of the Tuskegee Airmen's 99th Fighter Squadron and 332nd Fighter Group, was the first Black general in the U.S. Air Force and led its racial integration, retiring as lieutenant general in 1970.
Benjamin Olken
Benjamin A. Olken is an American development economist, the Carlton Professor of Microeconomics at MIT, known for randomized field experiments on corruption, social protection, and taxation in Indonesia.
Benjamin Orr
Benjamin Orr (Benjamin Orzechowski, 1947-2000) was bassist and co-lead vocalist of new wave band The Cars, singing "Just What I Needed", "Let's Go", and "Drive", and recording the 1986 solo album The Lace.