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Benjamin Constant
Benjamin Constant (Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, 1767–1830), Swiss-born French liberal theorist, politician, novelist (Adolphe), and historian of religion; author of the 1819 lecture on ancient versus modern liberty and Principes de politique (1815).
Benjamin Constant (Brazilian military officer and republican leader)
Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães (1837–1891) was a Brazilian army officer, mathematician, and positivist who organized the 1889 coup that deposed the Empire and proclaimed the republic.
Benjamin Crump
Benjamin (Ben) Crump, American civil rights and personal injury attorney based in Tallahassee, Florida; founder of Ben Crump Law. Known as "Black America's Attorney General"; represented families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor; won $641M Flint settlement and $27M Floyd settlement.
Benjamin D. Sommers
Benjamin D. Sommers is an American health economist and physician, Huntley Quelch Professor at Harvard, who studies health insurance coverage, Medicaid, and the safety net.
Benjamin Day
Benjamin Henry Day (1810–1889) was an American printer and journalist who founded the one-cent New York Sun in 1833, creating the mass-circulation penny press funded by advertising.
Benjamin de Rothschild
Benjamin de Rothschild (1963–2021) was a French-born banker who led the Geneva-based Edmond de Rothschild group from 1997, growing it to CHF 173 billion in assets.
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British Conservative novelist and prime minister 1868 and 1874–80, Britain's first and only Jewish prime minister; Suez shares, Congress of Berlin, One Nation legacy from Sybil.
Benjamin Dousa
Benjamin Dousa is a Swedish Moderate Party politician and member of the Riksdag who serves as Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, overseeing Swedish aid and trade.
Benjamin F. Jones
Benjamin F. Jones is an economist at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management who studies innovation, entrepreneurship, and scientific progress, including his 2025 Nature paper on the pivot penalty in research.
Benjamin Fernandes
Benjamin Fernandes is a Tanzanian fintech founder, a former TV presenter and Stanford MBA graduate, who co-founded NALA in 2016, a cross-border payments company for diaspora customers.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was an American printer, scientist, inventor, and diplomat who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and negotiated the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
Benjamin Franklin Trueblood
Benjamin Franklin Trueblood (1847–1916) was an American Quaker educator and peace activist who served as general secretary of the American Peace Society from 1892 to 1915.
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham, born Benjamin Grossbaum (1894–1976), was an American investor and author called the father of financial analysis, who taught at Columbia and wrote The Intelligent Investor.
Benjamin Grant Mitchell
Benjamin (Ben) Grant Mitchell, Australian actor, singer-songwriter and novelist; original Brad Willis in Neighbours (1989), author of The Last Great Day (2011); since 2020 a Byron Bay mindset coach, distinct from NZ actor Ben Mitchell (b. 1980).
Benjamin Grierson
Benjamin Henry Grierson was a Union Civil War general whose 1863 cavalry raid through Mississippi aided Grant's Vicksburg campaign; he later commanded the Buffalo Soldiers.
Benjamin Guggenheim
Benjamin Guggenheim was an American mining and smelting industrialist, fifth son of Meyer Guggenheim, who left the family business and died aboard the Titanic in 1912, dressed in evening wear.
Benjamin Guinness
Benjamin Guinness, also known as Benjamin Lee Guinness, was a Dublin brewer who built the Guinness export trade and funded the £150,000 restoration of St Patrick's Cathedral.
Benjamin Guinness II
Benjamin Guinness II, also known as Benjamin Lee Guinness, was an Irish-born British Army captain in the Royal Horse Guards, second son of the Dublin brewer Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness.
Benjamin H. Settle
Benjamin H. Settle, also known as Benjamin Hale Settle, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Western District of Washington, appointed by George W. Bush in 2007.
Benjamin Haddad
Benjamin Haddad is a French politician who joined Macron's movement in 2017, was elected to the National Assembly in 2022, and serves as Minister delegate for Europe.
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901), 23rd U.S. president (1889–1893), grandson of William Henry Harrison, Indiana Republican senator and Union brigadier general; won 1888 electoral vote while losing popular vote; signed Sherman Antitrust Act.
Benjamin Harrison V
Benjamin Harrison V (1726–1791), Virginia planter at Berkeley Plantation, Declaration of Independence signer, chair of the July 1776 independence debate, governor of Virginia 1781–1784, and father of President William Henry Harrison.
Benjamin Hoadly
Benjamin Hoadly (1676–1761) was an English Anglican bishop and Whig political writer, successively Bishop of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester, whose 1717 sermon before George I ignited the Bangorian Controversy.
Benjamin Hornigold
Benjamin Hornigold, also known as Ben Hornigold, was an English pirate of the Bahamas who mentored Blackbeard, then became a pirate hunter after taking the King's pardon in 1718.
Benjamin Hoskins Paddock
Benjamin Hoskins Paddock (1926–1998), also Patrick Benjamin Paddock, American bank robber, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #302 from 1969 to 1977; escaped La Tuna prison, captured 1978 in Oregon as Bruce Ericksen; father of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock.
Benjamin Ingham
Benjamin Ingham (1712–1772) was a Yorkshire evangelist who joined the Wesley brothers' Oxford Methodist band, served as a missionary in Georgia, and founded the Inghamite societies.
Benjamin J. Beaton
Benjamin J. Beaton, born in 1981 in Paducah, Kentucky, is a United States district judge for the Western District of Kentucky, appointed by President Trump in 2020.
Benjamin J. Cheeks
Benjamin Jerome Cheeks, born 1977 in Albany, Georgia, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of California, confirmed in 2024 and seated since 2025.
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool is an American energy policy and energy justice scholar, professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University since 2022, known for the energy justice framework.
Benjamin Kennicott
Benjamin Kennicott (1718–1783) was an English Anglican clergyman and Biblical scholar at Oxford who organized the first large-scale collation of Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts, published as the Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum.