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Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman (1909–1986), the King of Swing, was a jazz clarinetist and bandleader whose 1935 Palomar Ballroom success launched the swing era and whose 1938 Carnegie Hall concert was the first jazz concert there.

Benny Hill

Benny Hill (Alfred Hawthorne Hill, 1924 or 1925 to 1992) was a British comedian whose The Benny Hill Show ran on the BBC from 1955 and ITV Thames from 1969 to 1989, syndicated to over 80 countries.

Benny Hinn

Benny Hinn, born Toufik Benedictus Hinn in 1952, is an Israeli-born televangelist and faith healer known for his miracle crusades and the broadcast This Is Your Day.

Benny Kohlberg

Benny Tord Kohlberg (born 1954, Arvika, Sweden), Swedish cross-country skier, Arvika IS; Olympic gold in the 4x10 km relay at Sarajevo 1984 with Wassberg, Ottosson, and Svan; fifth in the 1980 relay; 1982 Swedish 30 km champion.

Benny Laos

Benny Laos (1972–2024), Indonesian businessman and politician, Regent of Morotai Island 2017–2022 and 2024 North Maluku gubernatorial candidate; died in the Bella 72 speedboat fire at Bobong Port, Taliabu.

Benny Mardones

Benny Mardones (Ruben Armand Mardones, 1946–2020), American singer-songwriter from Cleveland and Savage, Maryland, wrote and sang "Into the Night," which charted on Billboard in three decades via separate recordings.

Benny Medina

Benny Medina, born 1958 in Los Angeles, is an American record executive and producer who managed Jennifer Lopez and whose life inspired The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Benny Morris (בני מוריס)

Benny Morris (בני מוריס), Israeli historian at Ben-Gurion University and leading 'new historian'; author of The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (1987/1988, revised edition), 1948, and Righteous Victims.

Benny Paret

Benny "Kid" Paret, Cuban welterweight boxing champion, died April 3, 1962, ten days after Emile Griffith knocked him out in their televised Madison Square Garden title fight, prompting investigations and boxing safety reforms.

Benny Safdie

Benny Safdie (born 1986, New York City), American filmmaker and actor of the Safdie brothers duo (Daddy Longlegs, Good Time, Uncut Gems); co-creator of The Curse; solo director of The Smashing Machine (2025), Silver Lion Best Director at Venice 2025; actor in Oppenheimer and Licorice Pizza.

Benny the Bull

Benny the Bull, mascot of the NBA's Chicago Bulls, debuted in 1969 as the league's first mascot, was named after Ben Bentley, won Forbes' 2013 popularity ranking, and joined the Mascot Hall of Fame in 2017.

Benny the Butcher

Benny the Butcher, born Jeremie Damon Pennick (1984), is a Buffalo rapper and core Griselda Records member with cousins Westside Gunn and Conway the Machine; known for Tana Talk 3, Burden of Proof, Def Jam debut Everybody Can't Go, and his Black Soprano Family label.

Benny Urquidez

Benny Urquidez, known as Benny "The Jet", is an American former professional kickboxer who won multiple world titles across five weight classes between 1974 and the mid-1980s.

Benny Yufei Chen

Benny Yufei Chen is an American software engineer who co-founded the inference cloud company Fireworks AI in 2022 and has been its President since 2026.

Benny's Video

Benny's Video (1992) is Michael Haneke's Austria-Switzerland drama, second in his Glaciation trilogy, about a 14-year-old obsessed with violent videos who kills a girl with a stolen slaughter pistol; premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight 1992.

Beno Eckmann

Beno Eckmann (1917–2008) was a Swiss mathematician at ETH Zürich, a founder of homological algebra, category theory, and group cohomology, who also established ETH's Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik in 1964.

Beno Gutenberg

Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960) was a German-born seismologist who spent most of his career at Caltech, measured the Earth's core depth at 2900 kilometers, and with Charles Richter created the earthquake magnitude scale and the Gutenberg–Richter law.

Beno Sternlicht

Beno Sternlicht is an engineer known for gas lubrication research, including a 1968 article on coordinated gas-lubrication research, who was an officer and director of Mechanical Technology Inc.

Benodanil

Benodanil (2-iodobenzanilide, BAS 3170, CAS 15310-01-7) is an obsolete systemic SDHI (FRAC 7) fungicide introduced circa 1974 by BASF for cereal rusts; not EU-approved, default MRL 0.01 mg/kg.

Benode Behari Mukherjee

Benode Behari Mukherjee (বিনোদ বিহারী মুখোপাধ্যায়, 1904–1980) was an Indian painter and muralist of the Santiniketan school, best known for his 80-foot Hindi Bhavan mural and for working after going blind in 1957.

Benoist Grossmann

Benoist Grossmann is a French venture capital investor and Chairman of Eurazeo Tech, known for early investment in Criteo and as president of France Digitale since 2019.

Benoit & Sergio

Benoit & Sergio are a house and dance-pop duo of Benoit Simon and Sergio, formed in Washington, D.C. around 2009 and known for the 2011 single "Walk and Talk".

Benoît Assou-Ekotto

Benoît Assou-Ekotto, born 1984 in Arras, France, is a retired left-back who made 204 Tottenham Hotspur appearances (2006-2015), played for Cameroon at the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, and was known for calling football a job, not a passion.

Benoît Badiashile

Benoît Badiashile (Benoît Ntambue Badiashile Mukinayi), French left-footed centre-back born 2001 in Limoges; Monaco academy product, 135 matches, Chelsea January 2023 for ~€38m, 2 France caps, Napoli loan 2026.

Benoît Batraville

Benoît Batraville (died May 1920) was a Haitian guerrilla commander who took supreme command of the Caco resistance to the US occupation of Haiti after Péralte's killing in 1919.

Benoit Dageville

Benoit Dageville is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Snowflake, the cloud data warehouse company, in 2012 after more than 15 years as a lead architect at Oracle.

Benoit de Boigne

Benoit de Boigne, born Benoit Leborgne, was a Savoyard soldier of fortune who organized and commanded the Maratha chief Mahadji Sindhia's regular brigades between 1784 and 1795.

Benoît De Crombrugghe

Benoît De Crombrugghe, born 1935 in Bruges, Belgium, is a Belgian molecular biologist at M.D. Anderson known for discovering Osterix and establishing Sox9's role in cartilage.

Benoît de Sainte-Maure

Benoît de Sainte-Maure was a 12th-century Norman or Tourangean poet who wrote the Roman de Troie, around 1160, and the unfinished Histoire des ducs de Normandie.

Benoît Dubertret

Benoît Dubertret (Benoit Dubertret) is a French materials chemist at CNRS and ESPCI Paris, known for demonstrating quantum dots in a living organism and non-blinking nanocrystals.