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Benjamin Osgood Peirce
Benjamin Osgood Peirce was an American mathematician and physicist who held Harvard's Hollis chair from 1888 to 1914 and wrote A Short Table of Integrals, an indispensable reference for scientists.
Benjamin Pajak
Benjamin Pajak (born 2011) is an American actor from Westfield, New Jersey; Broadway's Winthrop Paroo in The Music Man (Theatre World Award 2022), Sam Emerson in The Lost Boys, and young Chuck in The Life of Chuck.
Benjamin Pavard
Benjamin Pavard (Benjamin Jacques Marcel Pavard), born 1996 in Maubeuge, is a French defender for Inter Milan; 2018 World Cup winner whose goal of the tournament against Argentina preceded Bayern Munich's 2020 sextuple.
Benjamin Peirce
Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880) was an American mathematician and astronomer who taught at Harvard for nearly fifty years, classified linear associative algebras, and helped determine Neptune's orbit after its 1846 discovery.
Benjamin Peter Kleinstiver
Benjamin Peter Kleinstiver is a Canadian-trained biochemist and genome engineer at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for widening the genomic range CRISPR-Cas9 can target.
Benjamin Raich
Benjamin Raich, Benni, Der Blitz aus Pitz, Austrian alpine skier born 1978; double Olympic gold medalist (2006 slalom, giant slalom), 2006 overall World Cup winner, 36 World Cup victories, retired 2015, now ORF analyst.
Benjamin Recht
Benjamin Recht is an American professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, working across optimization, machine learning, and control theory, and a 2012 PECASE recipient.
Benjamin Ritchie
Benjamin Donnie Ritchie (1980-2025), Indiana man executed May 20, 2025 for the 2000 fatal shooting of Beech Grove police officer William Toney during a foot chase; convicted 2002, appeals over FASD and lead exposure failed, pentobarbital execution drew botched-execution concerns.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), American Supreme Court associate justice 1851–1857 appointed by Fillmore; author of the main Dred Scott dissent, the only justice to resign in protest, and Andrew Johnson's impeachment defense counsel.
Benjamin Roden
Benjamin Lloyd Roden (1902–1978) was an American religious leader who organized the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists near Waco, Texas, in 1955; his wife Lois succeeded him in 1978.
Benjamín Rollheiser
Benjamín Rollheiser, Argentine attacking midfielder/forward born 2000 in Coronel Suárez; ex-River Plate, Estudiantes, Benfica; joined Santos February 2025 for €11m on a contract to 2028; left-footed dribbler, Santos's most-used substitute in 2026.
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), American physician, Declaration of Independence signer, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania; father of American psychiatry, notorious for depletion therapy (calomel, jalap, bloodletting) in the 1793 yellow fever epidemic.
Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon
Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, also known as Benjamin Falcon, is a structural biologist who leads a research group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.
Benjamin S. Bunney
Benjamin S. Bunney is an American psychiatrist and systems neuroscientist, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and a National Academy of Medicine member.
Benjamin S. Glick
Benjamin S. Glick is a cell biologist at the University of Chicago, known for the cisternal maturation model of Golgi traffic and engineered fluorescent proteins.
Benjamin S. Halpern
Benjamin S. Halpern is an American marine ecologist and conservation scientist at UC Santa Barbara, known for the first global map of human impact on the ocean.
Benjamin Savsek
Benjamin Savšek, born 1987, is a Slovenian canoe slalom paddler who won the men's C1 gold at Tokyo 2020, Slovenia's first Olympic slalom title, and two world championships.
Benjamin Schoefer
Benjamin Schoefer is a macroeconomist and tenured associate professor at UC Berkeley, where he directs the Macro Labor Center and studies wage rigidity and unemployment.
Benjamin Schuler
Benjamin Schuler (born 1971) is a molecular biophysicist who has been Full Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Zurich since 2009, known for single-molecule FRET studies of intrinsically disordered proteins.
Benjamin Šeško
Benjamin Šeško (born 2003) is a Slovenian centre-forward for Manchester United and Slovenia. Red Bull Salzburg and RB Leipzig striker, signed by United in August 2025 for about €85 million; 12 goals in his first season.
Benjamin Sheares
Benjamin Henry Sheares (1907–1981), Singapore's second president (1971–81), Eurasian gynaecologist, KKH pioneer of lower-segment caesarean section and the Sheares vaginoplasty, professor at the University of Malaya, died in office.
Benjamin Silliman Jr.
Benjamin Silliman Jr. (1816–1885) was an American chemist and geologist at Yale College whose 1855 report showed Pennsylvania petroleum could be refined, spurring the first producing oil well near Titusville.
Benjamin Silliman Sr.
Benjamin Silliman Sr. was an American chemist and geologist who was Yale's first professor of chemistry and natural history. He founded the American Journal of Science.
Benjamin Simons
Benjamin D. Simons is a theoretical physicist and stem cell biologist at the University of Cambridge, known for applying statistical physics to stem cell fate and cancer.
Benjamin Sisko
Benjamin Lafayette Sisko is the lead character of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999), played by Avery Brooks; he commands the station Deep Space 9, serves as the Bajoran Emissary of the Prophets, and is Trek's first Black captain to lead a televised series.
Benjamin Solomon
Benjamin J. Solomon is an Australian medical oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, known for phase 3 trials of ALK inhibitors in lung cancer.
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), American pediatrician, author of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946), over 50 million copies sold; later a leading Vietnam War opponent, SANE co-chair, and 1972 presidential candidate.
Benjamin Stambouli
Benjamin Fernand Lucien François Stambouli, French midfielder born 1990 in Marseille; Ligue 1 champion with Montpellier 2012 and PSG 2016, five seasons at Schalke 04, retired 2026 after Metz.
Benjamin T. Kile
Benjamin T. Kile, also known as Benjamin Kile, is an Australian hematology researcher who showed platelets carry a timed program of cell death and leads the Garvan Institute in Sydney.
Benjamin Tallmadge
Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835), Washington's director of military intelligence from November 1778, created and ran the Culper Spy Ring in occupied New York under the alias John Bolton using a 763-entry code book, led the 1780 Fort St. George raid, then served as a Federalist congressman from Connecticut, 1801-1817.