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Bengt Holmström
Bengt Robert Holmström, born 1949 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish microeconomic theorist and MIT professor who won the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize for his contributions to contract theory.
Beni Aharon (בני אהרון)
Beni Aharon (בני אהארוץ) is an IDF armored corps brigadier general who commanded the 401st Armored Brigade from 2022 to 2024 and has led Division 146 since 2025.
Benigno Aquino III
Benigno Aquino III, popularly called Noynoy, was a Filipino politician who served as the fifteenth president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016, the only son of Corazon Aquino.
Benignus
Benignus, in Irish Benén, was a boy St. Patrick baptized and named Benignus, later remembered as Patrick's favorite disciple and successor as bishop of Armagh.
Benin National Conference
The Benin National Conference (Conférence nationale des forces vives de la nation) met in Cotonou in February 1990, ending Mathieu Kérékou's Marxist regime and launching Benin's democratic transition.
Benin transition to democracy
Benin's transition to democracy (1989–1991) peacefully replaced Kérékou's Marxist-Leninist single-party regime via the 1990 National Conference and 1991 elections won by Nicéphore Soglo, making Benin a pioneer of democratization in sub-Saharan Africa.
Benin–Delta trade
Benin–Delta trade is the commerce connecting Benin, from the historical Benin Kingdom to the modern republic, with the Niger Delta, historically in pepper, ivory, and enslaved people.
Benin–Portugal relations
Benin–Portugal relations cover two linked histories: Portuguese trade and diplomacy with the Kingdom of Benin in present-day Nigeria from 1472, and contemporary relations with the Republic of Benin.
Benita Y. Pearson
Benita Yalonda Pearson is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio since 2010, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Benito Juárez
Benito Juárez (Benito Pablo Juárez García, 1806–1872), Zapotec-born liberal president of Mexico (1858–1872), author of the Ley Juárez, leader of the Reforma and resistance to Maximilian's French-backed empire, executed Maximilian in 1867, declared Benemérito de la Patria.
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945), also called Il Duce, Italian politician and founder of fascism; socialist editor of Avanti!, founded the Fasci in 1919, ruled Italy 1922–1943, allied with Hitler, executed by partisans in 1945.
Benjaman Kyle
Benjaman Kyle, aka Burger King Doe, later William Burgess Powell, an American man found beaten and amnesiac behind a Georgia Burger King in 2004, unidentified until 2015 DNA genealogy.
Benjamin (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople)
Benjamin I, born on Lesvos in 1871, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1936 until his death in 1946, healing schisms and navigating wartime diplomacy in Kemalist Turkey.
Benjamin (בנימין)
Benjamin, also known as Binyamin (בנימין), is the youngest son of Jacob and Rachel in the Hebrew Bible and ancestor of the Tribe of Benjamin.
Benjamín Arellano Félix
Benjamín Arellano Félix (aliases El Min, El Colores), Sinaloa-born leader of the Tijuana Cartel (Arellano Félix Organization); arrested in Puebla in 2002, extradited to the US in 2011, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years.
Benjamin B. Dunlap
Benjamin B. Dunlap is an American academic, writer, and television producer who served as the 10th president of Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, from 2000 to 2013.
Benjamin Ball (private equity investor)
Benjamin H. Ball, known as Ben Ball, is an American private equity investor who co-founded the San Francisco technology firm Francisco Partners in 1999, now Partner Emeritus there.
Benjamin Barber
Benjamin R. Barber (1939–2017) was an American political theorist at Rutgers known for "strong democracy" and Jihad vs. McWorld, and founder of the Global Parliament of Mayors.
Benjamin Black (investor)
Benjamin Black, known as Ben Black, is an American venture investor who co-founded Akkadian Ventures in 2010, a San Francisco firm buying private-company shares in direct secondaries.
Benjamin Blander
Benjamin Blander is an American quantitative trader who co-founded Radix Trading, a Chicago proprietary trading firm, after leading Citadel's high-frequency trading group; he holds a mathematics PhD from the University of Chicago.
Benjamin Bloom
Benjamin S. Bloom (1913–1999) was an American educational psychologist at the University of Chicago who led the creation of Bloom's taxonomy, developed mastery learning, and framed the 2 sigma problem.
Benjamin Bolger
Benjamin B. Bolger, born 1975, American perpetual student and admissions consultant with 14 to 16 advanced degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, and others, despite severe dyslexia.
Benjamin Brafman
Benjamin Brafman, New York criminal defense lawyer and principal of Brafman & Associates, P.C.; former Manhattan ADA (Rackets Bureau). Known for white-collar and high-profile defense, including Sean Combs' 1999 acquittal and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851–1921) was an American Presbyterian theologian who held Princeton Seminary's chair of didactic and polemic theology from 1887 until his death, defining modern biblical inerrancy.
Benjamin Bronfman
Benjamin Bronfman, known as Ben Brewer, is an American cleantech investor and former musician, best known as a founding partner of the direct air capture company Global Thermostat.
Benjamin Burombo
Benjamin Burombo (1909–1958) was a Zimbabwean trade unionist and early African nationalist who founded the British African National Voice Association (BANVA) and helped organize the 1948 country-wide African strike in colonial Rhodesia.
Benjamin Butler
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818–1893), Union major general, Massachusetts politician, and "Contraband Decision" author at Fort Monroe; military governor of New Orleans (General Order No. 28), Johnson impeachment manager, and 1884 Greenback presidential candidate.
Benjamin Chavis
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. (Benjamin Chavis Muhammad), born 1948, is a civil rights leader, Wilmington Ten member, former NAACP executive director, Million Man March organizer, and current president and CEO of the NNPA.
Benjamin Chew Howard
Benjamin Chew Howard (1791–1872) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Maryland who served four terms in Congress and was the Supreme Court's Reporter of Decisions from 1843 to 1862.
Benjamin Cleveland
Benjamin Cleveland (1738–1806), also spelled Cleaveland, was a Patriot militia colonel of Wilkes County, North Carolina, a Whig leader at Kings Mountain, and a harsh suppressor of Loyalists who later moved to South Carolina.