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Benin ivory carving
Benin ivory carving is the royal court tradition of carved elephant ivory in the Kingdom of Benin, in southwestern Nigeria, from roughly the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
Benin plaque of the Oba and attendants
The Benin plaque of the Oba and attendants is a 16th-century cast-brass relief from Benin City showing the oba, or king, flanked by arm-supporting attendants.
Beniowski
Beniowski is a digressive poem by the Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, written between 1840 and 1846, inspired by Byron's Don Juan and modeled on adventurer Maurycy Beniowski.
Benito Cereno
Benito Cereno is an 1855 novella by Herman Melville, serialized in Putnam's Monthly Magazine, in which an American captain boards a Spanish slave ship and misreads its mutiny.
Benito Jerónimo Feijoo
Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, also spelled Feyjóo, was a Galician Benedictine monk and essayist whose attack on common errors made him a leading figure of the Spanish Enlightenment.
Benito Lynch
Benito Lynch (Benito Eduardo Lynch) was an Argentine novelist and short-story writer of gauchesca literature, known for Los caranchos de La Florida and El inglés de los güesos.
Benito Martinez (actor)
Benito Martinez, also credited as Benito James Martinez, is an American actor born 1971 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, best known as Captain David Aceveda on The Shield and for multiple roles in American Crime.
Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), Spanish Realist novelist, dramatist and Republican politician from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, considered Spain's greatest novelist after Cervantes; author of the 46-volume Episodios nacionales and Fortunata y Jacinta.
Benito Skinner
Benito Skinner, known online as Benny Drama (@bennydrama7), is an American comedian and actor from Idaho whose viral celebrity impressions led to the A24-produced Prime Video coming-out comedy Overcompensating, renewed for season 2.
Benjamin Bratt
Benjamin Bratt (born 1963, San Francisco) is an American actor and producer, Emmy-nominated as Detective Rey Curtis on Law & Order, known for Traffic, Miss Congeniality, Piñero, and voicing Ernesto de la Cruz in Coco, and for Native American activism.
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist whose opera Peter Grimes (1945) revived English opera; he also wrote the War Requiem and founded the Aldeburgh Festival.
Benjamin Burnley
Benjamin Burnley (Benjamin Jackson Burnley IV), born 1978 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter of Breaking Benjamin, known for Diary of Jane, So Cold, and Blow Me Away.
Benjamin Clementine
Benjamin Clementine (Benjamin Sainte-Clementine), born 1988 in London, is a British pianist, singer-songwriter, poet, and actor who busked in Paris before winning the 2015 Mercury Prize for At Least for Now; later albums I Tell a Fly and And I Have Been, plus roles in Dune and Blitz.
Benjamin De Almeida
Benjamin De Almeida, aka BENOFTHEWEEK, born 1999 in Edmonton, Alberta, is a Canadian-born comedy creator with 22M+ followers, an Emmy nomination, Nick News hosting, and Dior and Prada collaborations.
Benjamin Diskin
Benjamin Isaac Diskin, known professionally as Ben Diskin, is an American voice actor born in 1982 who won a 2019 Daytime Emmy for voicing Gonzo and Rizzo in Muppet Babies.
Benjamin Flores Jr.
Benjamin Flores Jr., also known as Lil P-Nut, is an American actor and rapper born 2002, in Memphis, Tennessee. Known for voicing Atticus in Happy Feet Two, playing Triple G on Game Shakers, Eugene Jones on Your Honor, and Josh in Netflix's Fear Street trilogy.
Benjamin Goldwasser
Benjamin (Ben) Goldwasser, born 1982 in Mishawaka, Indiana, is the keyboardist, singer, and co-songwriter who co-founded psychedelic/synth-pop band MGMT with Andrew VanWyngarden at Wesleyan University in 2002.
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.
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 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 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.
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 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 Wadsworth (actor)
Benjamin Hassan Wadsworth (born 1999, Houston, Texas) is an American actor, lead of SYFY's Deadly Class as Marcus Lopez Arguello and Drew in Hulu's Tell Me Lies.
Benjamin Walker (actor)
Benjamin Walker (born Benjamin Walker Davis, 1982) is an American actor, Tony-nominated for All My Sons, known for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, American Psycho, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and Gil-galad in The Rings of Power.
Benjamin West
Benjamin West (1738–1820) was an American-born painter who settled in London, became historical painter to George III, and served as the Royal Academy's second president.
Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin Whitrow (Benjamin John Whitrow, 1937-2017), English RADA-trained stage and screen actor; played Mr. Bennet in the BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice (BAFTA-nominated) and voiced Fowler in Chicken Run.
Benjamin William Hastings
Benjamin William Hastings, born 1991 in Belfast, is a Northern Irish worship songwriter and Hillsong UNITED member who wrote "So Will I (100 Billion X)", "Gratitude", and "The Father's House", and releases solo albums on Capitol CMG.
Benjamin Wood (writer)
Benjamin Wood (born 1981) is a British novelist, author of The Bellwether Revivals, The Ecliptic, and the Booker-longlisted Seascraper (2025); not the academic or historian of the same name.
Benjamin Zander
Benjamin Zander (born March 9, 1939) is a British-born Boston conductor, founder of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (sources differ on 1978 vs 1979) and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, known for performing Beethoven's Ninth at the composer's metronome markings.