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Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was an American linguist and Hartford fire insurance engineer who studied Hopi at Yale and gave his name to the principle of linguistic relativity.
Benjamin Lepak
Benjamin Lepak is an American Republican politician and lawyer serving as Secretary of State of Oklahoma since 2025, having previously served as general counsel to Governor Kevin Stitt.
Benjamin Ling
Benjamin Ling, known as Ben Ling, is an American venture capitalist who founded the seed firm Bling Capital in 2018 after serving as a general partner at Khosla Ventures.
Benjamin M. Flowers
Benjamin M. Flowers, Ohio's 10th Solicitor General (2019-2023), argued the state's major appeals including its 2019 abortion ban; partner at Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers; confirmed to the Sixth Circuit in July 2026.
Benjamin Magalong
Benjamin Bañez Magalong (born 1960) is a Filipino retired police deputy director general and NPC politician serving as Baguio City mayor since 2019, known for the SAF 44 board of inquiry, Mayors for Good Governance, and a brief 2025 ICI adviser role.
Benjamin Mazar
Benjamin Mazar, born Benjamin Maisler (1906–1995), was an Israeli historian and biblical archaeologist who directed the large-scale excavations at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after 1967.
Benjamin McCulloch
Benjamin McCulloch (1811–1862), "Ol' Ben," Texas Ranger, San Jacinto veteran, Zachary Taylor's chief of scouts, U.S. marshal, and Confederate brigadier general killed at Pea Ridge on March 7, 1862.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938), American jurist, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1926–1932 and U.S. Supreme Court justice 1932–1938; author of MacPherson, Palsgraf, and The Nature of the Judicial Process.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu (בנימין נתניהו), Likud leader and Israel's longest-serving prime minister (1996–99, 2009–21, 2022–), covering his elections, economic and security policies, Gaza war, ICC warrant, and corruption trial.
Benjamin Newton Duke
Benjamin Newton Duke was an American tobacco and power industrialist of Durham, North Carolina, and the primary benefactor of Trinity College, forerunner of Duke University.
Benjamin Nye
Benjamin Nye is an American venture investor who spent 19 years as co-managing partner of Bain Capital Ventures, then left in 2023 to found the seed firm Venture Guides.
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (1912-2002), West Point 1936 graduate and commander of the Tuskegee Airmen's 99th Fighter Squadron and 332nd Fighter Group, was the first Black general in the U.S. Air Force and led its racial integration, retiring as lieutenant general in 1970.
Benjamin Olken
Benjamin A. Olken is an American development economist, the Carlton Professor of Microeconomics at MIT, known for randomized field experiments on corruption, social protection, and taxation in Indonesia.
Benjamin Ritchie
Benjamin Donnie Ritchie (1980-2025), Indiana man executed May 20, 2025 for the 2000 fatal shooting of Beech Grove police officer William Toney during a foot chase; convicted 2002, appeals over FASD and lead exposure failed, pentobarbital execution drew botched-execution concerns.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), American Supreme Court associate justice 1851–1857 appointed by Fillmore; author of the main Dred Scott dissent, the only justice to resign in protest, and Andrew Johnson's impeachment defense counsel.
Benjamin Roden
Benjamin Lloyd Roden (1902–1978) was an American religious leader who organized the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists near Waco, Texas, in 1955; his wife Lois succeeded him in 1978.
Benjamin Schoefer
Benjamin Schoefer is a macroeconomist and tenured associate professor at UC Berkeley, where he directs the Macro Labor Center and studies wage rigidity and unemployment.
Benjamin Sheares
Benjamin Henry Sheares (1907–1981), Singapore's second president (1971–81), Eurasian gynaecologist, KKH pioneer of lower-segment caesarean section and the Sheares vaginoplasty, professor at the University of Malaya, died in office.
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), American pediatrician, author of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946), over 50 million copies sold; later a leading Vietnam War opponent, SANE co-chair, and 1972 presidential candidate.
Benjamin Tallmadge
Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835), Washington's director of military intelligence from November 1778, created and ran the Culper Spy Ring in occupied New York under the alias John Bolton using a 763-entry code book, led the 1780 Fort St. George raid, then served as a Federalist congressman from Connecticut, 1801-1817.
Benjamin Tillman
Benjamin Ryan Tillman, "Pitchfork Ben" (1847-1918), Democratic governor of South Carolina 1890-1894 and U.S. senator 1895-1918; architect of the 1895 constitution that disfranchised Black voters and leader of Red Shirt violence in 1876.
Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854-1939), American individualist anarchist, editor of Liberty (1881-1908, 403 issues), translator of Proudhon, author of Instead of a Book, critic of the money, land, tariff, and patent monopolies.
Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna (1831–1886) was a Chilean journalist, writer, and politician who wrote 192 books and, as Intendant of Santiago from 1872, transformed the city.
Benjamin Whichcote
Benjamin Whichcote (1609–1683) was an English priest, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and founding teacher of the Cambridge Platonists, who argued that reason should sweeten religion.
Benjamin Yepthomi
Benjamin Yepthomi is an Indian politician who has served as President of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Nagaland unit since September 2023, after leading its youth wing.
Benjamine Liu
Benjamine Liu is a computational biologist and the co-founder and CEO of Formation Bio, a New York AI-native pharmaceutical company he started as TrialSpark in 2016 with Linhao Zhang.
Benji (Chinese Chan Buddhist monk)
Benji, known as Caoshan Benji (本寂), was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk (840–901), principal Dharma heir of Dongshan Liangjie and traditional co-founder of the Caodong school of Chan.
Benjie Wimberly
Benjie Wimberly is an American politician and Democratic member of the New Jersey Senate from the 35th district, representing Bergen and Passaic counties, known for community investment legislation.
Benkei (弁慶)
Benkei (弁慶, Saitō Musashibō Benkei) is the semi-legendary warrior monk and loyal retainer of Minamoto no Yoshitsune; historically unverified, he is known from the Gikeiki, Noh plays Ataka and Funa-Benkei, kabuki's Kanjinchō, and the standing-death legend.
Benkos Biohó
Benkos Biohó, also known as Domingo Biohó, was an African-born maroon leader in New Grenada (present-day Colombia) who escaped slavery in Cartagena and was hanged in 1621.