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Benlai Life

本来生活 (Benlai Life) is a Chinese fresh-food e-commerce company founded in Beijing in July 2012 by former media executive Yu Huafeng, renamed Benlai Group in 2019.

Benner's cycle

Benner's cycle, also known as Periods When to Make Money, is a set of commodity-price and panic forecasts published in 1875 by the Ohio farmer Samuel Benner.

Bennett 2026

Bennett 2026 (בנט 2026) is the temporary name of Naftali Bennett's Israeli party, registered April 1, 2025, running with Yesh Atid as Together (Beyachad) in the October 27, 2026 Knesset election; distinct from Rebecca Bennett, Michael Bennet, and other Bennett namesakes.

Bennett Cerf

Bennett Alfred Cerf (1898–1971), American publisher and co-founder with Donald Klopfer of Random House (1927) after buying the Modern Library (1925); published Ulysses, Faulkner, Dr. Seuss; What's My Line? panelist.

Bennett T. McCallum

Bennett T. McCallum, also known as Bennett Tarlton McCallum, was an American monetary economist at Carnegie Mellon University, best known for the nominal GDP targeting rule called the McCallum rule.

Bennie Demps

Bennie Eddie Demps (1950-2000), Florida death row inmate executed by lethal injection June 7, 2000; sentenced to death in 1971 (Lake County murders, commuted after Furman) and again in 1978 for the 1976 prison murder of inmate Alfred Sturgis.

Bennie Thompson

Bennie G. Thompson, Democratic U.S. representative for Mississippi's 2nd District since a 1993 special election succeeding Mike Espy; former Homeland Security chair and January 6 Committee chairman, now ranking member, seeking a 17th term in 2026.

Bennington College

Bennington College: private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont, founded 1932 as a women's college, co-educational since 1969. Known for the self-designed Plan curriculum and the annual Field Work Term internship requirement.

Bennu

Bennu: near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, OSIRIS-REx sample-return target, B-type, rubble pile, samples returned 2023; also the Egyptian benu-bird, Heliopolis solar deity and phoenix prototype, source of the asteroid's name.

Benny Behanan

Benny Behanan, born 1952, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Kerala's Chalakudy constituency in the Lok Sabha since 2019, after earlier serving in the Kerala Legislative Assembly.

Benny Binion

Benny Binion (Lester Binion, 1904-1989), Texas gambler and Dallas racketeer who founded Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas in 1951 and hosted the first World Series of Poker in 1970.

Benny Gantz

Benny Gantz (בני גנץ), born 1959, Israeli retired general, 20th IDF Chief of Staff 2011–2015, defense minister 2020–2022, and leader of Blue and White and the National Unity party; resigned from Netanyahu's war cabinet June 9, 2024.

Benny Hinn

Benny Hinn, born Toufik Benedictus Hinn in 1952, is an Israeli-born televangelist and faith healer known for his miracle crusades and the broadcast This Is Your Day.

Benny Laos

Benny Laos (1972–2024), Indonesian businessman and politician, Regent of Morotai Island 2017–2022 and 2024 North Maluku gubernatorial candidate; died in the Bella 72 speedboat fire at Bobong Port, Taliabu.

Benny Morris (בני מוריס)

Benny Morris (בני מוריס), Israeli historian at Ben-Gurion University and leading 'new historian'; author of The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (1987/1988, revised edition), 1948, and Righteous Victims.

Benny Yufei Chen

Benny Yufei Chen is an American software engineer who co-founded the inference cloud company Fireworks AI in 2022 and has been its President since 2026.

Benoist Grossmann

Benoist Grossmann is a French venture capital investor and Chairman of Eurazeo Tech, known for early investment in Criteo and as president of France Digitale since 2019.

Benoît Batraville

Benoît Batraville (died May 1920) was a Haitian guerrilla commander who took supreme command of the Caco resistance to the US occupation of Haiti after Péralte's killing in 1919.

Benoit Dageville

Benoit Dageville is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Snowflake, the cloud data warehouse company, in 2012 after more than 15 years as a lead architect at Oracle.

Benoit de Boigne

Benoit de Boigne, born Benoit Leborgne, was a Savoyard soldier of fortune who organized and commanded the Maratha chief Mahadji Sindhia's regular brigades between 1784 and 1795.

Benoît Hamon

Benoît Hamon is a French politician who founded and led the party Génération.s, and was the Socialist Party's candidate in the 2017 presidential election, winning 6.4 percent.

Benoît Payan

Benoît Payan is a French politician who has served as Mayor of Marseille since 2020, leading the left-wing Printemps marseillais list to reelection in 2026.

Benoyendra Nath Sen

Benoyendra Nath Sen (বিনয়েন্দ্রনাথ সেন; 1868–1913) was a Brahmo activist in Kolkata who led the New Dispensation after his uncle Keshub Chunder Sen died in 1884.

Benren

Benren (白水本仁) was a Tang-dynasty Chan Buddhist monk of the Caodong lineage, a dharma heir of Dongshan Liangjie who resided at Baishui yuan in Gao'an.

Benshi Shi

Benshi Shi (本事诗) is a late Tang collection by Meng Qi recounting the anecdotes behind famous poems in seven categories, an early forerunner of shihua criticism.

Benson Hill (company)

Benson Hill, also known as Benson Hill Biosystems, was a St. Louis, Missouri agri-food company founded in 2012 that developed soybean crops through its CropOS platform.

Bent Pyramid

The Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, built by Sneferu c. 2613–2589 BC, changes slope from about 55 to 43 degrees at 49 m height; first intended true pyramid, still largely cased, reopened to tourists in 2019.

Bente-Shina

Bentešina, also written Benteshina, was king of Amurru in Syria in the 13th century BC, a Hittite vassal who was exiled for rebellion and later restored by Hattusili III.

Bentley Innomed GmbH

Bentley Innomed GmbH is a German medical-technology company in Hechingen, founded in 2009 by Lars Sunnanväder and Miko Obradovic, that makes covered stents for vascular disease.

Bentley University

Bentley University, formerly Bentley College and the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance, is a private business university in Waltham, Massachusetts, founded in Boston in 1917 by accountant Harry C. Bentley.