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Ben Elton
Ben Elton, British comedian, novelist, and writer of The Young Ones, Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line, and Upstart Crow; author of 16 novels and the Queen musical We Will Rock You.
Ben Enwonwu
Ben Enwonwu was a Nigerian painter and sculptor who fused Igbo artistic traditions with European modernist techniques, becoming one of the most influential African artists of the 20th century.
Ben Falcone
Ben Falcone (Benjamin Scott Falcone, born 1973) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker, husband of Melissa McCarthy, director of Tammy, The Boss, Life of the Party, Superintelligence, and Thunder Force, and Groundlings alumnus.
Ben Feldman
Ben Feldman (born 1980, Washington, D.C.) is an American actor known as Jonah in Superstore, Michael Ginsberg in Mad Men (2012 Emmy nominee), and Kyle in CBS's Ghosts, plus voice roles in Monsters at Work.
Ben Folds
Ben Folds (Benjamin Scott Folds), American singer-songwriter and pianist from North Carolina, frontman of piano-pop trio Ben Folds Five and solo artist, known for "Brick," Rockin' the Suburbs, orchestral work with the NSO, and the Keys for Kids charity.
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five (Ben Folds 5) was an American alternative rock trio from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, known for guitar-free piano rock and the 1997 hit "Brick".
Ben Ford (chef)
Ben Ford (chef), son of Harrison Ford, is an American chef-restaurateur behind Beverly Hills' Chadwick and the 2004 Culver City gastropub Ford's Filling Station; trained at Chez Panisse, he works in wood-fire cooking, consulting, and the American Chef Corps.
Ben Foster (actor)
Ben Foster (born 1980, Boston) is an American actor, Disney's Flash Forward teen lead, Emmy winner for Bang Bang You're Dead, known for 3:10 to Yuma, Hell or High Water, and Leave No Trace; distinct from the English footballer of the same name.
Ben Gazzara
Ben Gazzara (Biagio Anthony Gazzara, 1930-2012), American stage, film, and TV actor; original Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, star of Run for Your Life and three Cassavetes films, Emmy winner 2003.
Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard (born 1976, Bremerton, Washington) is an American singer-songwriter, frontman of Death Cab for Cutie and half of the Postal Service; his Give Up sold over a million copies and Transatlanticism and Plans defined 2000s indie rock.
Ben Gillies
Ben Gillies (born 1979) is an Australian drummer and founding member of Silverchair, the Newcastle band behind five Australian number 1 albums; later projects include Tambalane, Bento, solo work, and the 2023 memoir Love & Pain.
Ben Gleib
Ben Gleib (Ben Nathan Gleiberman, born 1978), American comedian, actor, and host of GSN's Emmy-nominated Idiotest and Chelsea Lately roundtable; launched YouTube's first exclusive late-night show, Good Night with Ben Gleib, in 2026.
Ben Grimm
Ben Grimm (Benjamin J. Grimm), the Thing of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four: co-created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, first appearing in Fantastic Four #1 (1961) as a test pilot transformed by cosmic radiation into a rock-skinned powerhouse who cannot turn off his power.
Ben Haenow
Ben Haenow, English singer from Croydon, won The X Factor UK series 11 in 2014 with 57% of the vote; his single "Something I Need" was the 2014 Christmas number one.
Ben Hardy (actor)
Ben Hardy (born Ben Jones, 1991) is an English actor known for Peter Beale in EastEnders (2013-2015), Angel in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Roger Taylor in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), and Tony Spera in The Conjuring: Last Rites.
Ben Harper
Ben Harper (Benjamin Charles Harper, born 1969, Pomona, California), American folk-blues singer-songwriter and Weissenborn lap steel player, leader of the Innocent Criminals, three-time Grammy winner with over 15 million records sold.
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht (1893/1894-1964), American journalist, playwright, and Hollywood screenwriter; won the first screenwriting Oscar for Underworld, co-wrote The Front Page, and led Bergson Group Zionist activism.
Ben Higgins
Ben Higgins (Benjamin Edward Higgins) is an American reality television personality and entrepreneur best known as the lead of The Bachelor season 20, which aired in 2016.
Ben Hoffman
Ben Hoffman, born Benjamin Isaac Hoffman, is an American comedian from Lexington, Kentucky who hosted Comedy Central's The Ben Show and records outlaw country as Wheeler Walker Jr.
Ben Howard
Ben Howard (Benjamin John Howard, b. 1987) is an English singer-songwriter from Devon known for fingerstyle guitar in the John Martyn tradition; albums Every Kingdom, I Forget Where We Were, Noonday Dream, Collections from the Whiteout, Is It?, How Are You Feeling; two Brit Awards, Mercury nomination.
Ben Is Back
Ben Is Back is a 2018 American drama written and directed by Peter Hedges, starring Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges as mother and son over one Christmas Eve after Ben leaves rehab; also known by its single-day structure distinguishing it from Beautiful Boy.
Ben Johnson (actor)
Ben Johnson (1918-1996), American Western character actor, stuntman, and 1953 PRCA world champion team roper; won the 1971 Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Sam the Lion in The Last Picture Show.
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English Renaissance playwright, poet, and masque writer second only to Shakespeare; author of Volpone and The Alchemist, publisher of the 1616 Workes, and informal first Poet Laureate.
Ben Jorgensen
Ben Jorgensen is an American rock singer and guitarist, born in 1983 in New Jersey. He is best known as the founder of the emo band Armor For Sleep.
Ben Joyce (actor)
Ben Joyce is a Welsh actor from Swansea, trained at Mountview Academy (graduated 2021), who made his West End debut as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys (Trafalgar Theatre, 2021) and later played Marty McFly in Back to the Future The Musical at the Adelphi. Not to be confused with James Nelson-Joyce or other namesakes.
Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley (Krishna Pandit Bhanji, born 1943) is a British actor, Oscar winner for Gandhi (1982), knighted 2002, known for Sexy Beast, Schindler's List, and Marvel's Trevor Slattery.
Ben Kissel
Ben Kissel, American podcaster and comedian, co-creator and former co-host of the true-crime comedy podcast Last Podcast on the Left (2011–2023), host of Abe Lincoln's Top Hat and Ben Kissel Politics, co-author of The Last Book on the Left, and 2017 Brooklyn Borough President candidate.
Ben Klock
Ben Klock, born 1972 in Berlin, is a German techno DJ and producer, a Berghain resident since 2005 famed for ten-hour sets, with debut album One in 2009.
Ben Koldyke
Ben Koldyke (Benjamin Koldyke, born 1968, Chicago) is an American actor known for Don Frank on How I Met Your Mother, Lee Standish in Work It, and Greg Gibbon on Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, plus The Finest Hours.
Ben Kweller
Ben Kweller (born 1981) is an American indie rock singer-songwriter from Greenville, Texas, formerly of Radish; solo albums include Sha Sha (2002), On My Way (2004), and Cover the Mirrors (2025).