Ben

This article is about the name. For other uses, see Ben (disambiguation).

Ben

Pronunciation	Ben
Origin
Word/name	Dialectal Arabic/Hebrew
Meaning	"son of my sans amp" or "son of"
Other names
Related names	Benjamin, Benedict, Bengt, Bennett, Benoit, Benvolio

Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given name Benjamin (as well as Benedict, Bengt, Bennett, Benoit, Benvolio or Ebenezer, among other names). It is also used as a given name in its own right.

The Arabic "Bin" (بن) or "Ibn" (ابن) or "Ben" (dialectal Arabic) meaning "son of".

Ben (in Hebrew: בֶּן, Son of) forms part of surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham (Hebrew: אברהם בן אברהם). Bar-, "son of" in Aramaic, is also seen, e.g. Simon bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שמעון בר כוכבא).

People with the given name Ben

• Ben (German singer), German singer (Bernhard Albrecht Matthias Lasse Blümel)
• Ben (South Korean singer), South Korean singer (real name Lee Eun-young)
• Ben Adams, member of the British boy band A1
• Ben Affleck, American actor and screenwriter
• Ben Barba, Australian Rugby League player
• Ben Barnes (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ben Bernanke, Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank
• Ben Bishop, American professional ice hockey goaltender
• Ben Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post
• Ben Braun, American college basketball coach
• Ben Browder, American actor
• Ben Burman, Cool dude and basketball player
• Ben Carson, American surgeon and motivational speaker
• Ben Chase, American football player
• Ben Clime, American football player
• Ben Cohen (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ben Coleman (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ben Cousins, Australian Football League midfielder
• Ben Crenshaw, PGA Tour golfer
• Ben Cross, English actor
• Ben Curtis (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ben Cutting, Australian cricketer
• Ben Daley, Australian Rugby League player
• Ben Eager, Canadian professional ice hockey left winger
• Ben Edwards (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ben Fayot, Luxembourgian politician
• Ben Feldman (actor), American actor
• Ben Folds, singer-songwriter
• Ben Garland, American football player
• Ben Gibbard, lead singer from the indie-pop band Death Cab for Cutie
• Ben Gillies, drummer of Silverchair
• Ben Gordon, professional basketball player
• Ben Guez, American baseball player
• Ben Hannant, Australian Rugby League player
• Ben Harper, American musician
• Ben Hogan, PGA Tour golfer
• Ben Helfgott, Polish-born British lightweight weightlifting champion
• Ben Howard, British singer/songwriter
• Ben Hunt (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ben Jackson (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ben Jeby (Morris Jebaltowsky), American world champion middleweight boxer
• Ben Jelen, singer
• Ben Jonson English poet
• Ben Kane, English novelist specialising in historical fiction.
• Ben Kasica, American musician, lead guitar player for Christian Rock band Skillet
• Ben Keays, Australian rules footballer
• Ben Kingsley, British actor
• Ben Kinsella, British murder victim
• Ben Knapen, Dutch politician and journalist
• Ben Kweller, American rock musician
• Ben Leber, Minnesota Vikings linebacker
• Ben Lowe, Australian Rugby League player
• Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
• Ben Miller, English actor and comedian
• Ben Moody, American musician
• Ben Roy Mottelson Danish American physicist
• Ben Murdoch-Masila, New Zealand Rugby League player
• Ben Nicholson, English artist
• Ben Ownby, American kidnap victim
• Ben Plucknett (1954–2002), American discus thrower
• Ben Richards (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback
• Ben Sahar, Israeli soccer player (Hapoel Tel Aviv & national team)
• Ben Simmons, Australian basketballer
• Ben Sheets, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Ben Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ben Spijkers, Dutch judoka
• Ben Stein, law professor, economist, writer and actor
• Ben Stiller, American actor, writer and director
• Ben Swagerman, Dutch politician
• Ben Talley, American football player
• Ben Templeton, co-creator of the comic strip Motley's Crew
• Ben Te'o, New Zealand Rugby League player
• Ben Thatcher, English former association football player
• Ben Toledano, lawyer, columnist, and former politician
• Ben Underwood (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ben Vautier, French Fluxus artist, also known simply as 'Ben'
• Ben Verweij (1895–1951), Dutch footballer
• Ben Wallace, American former professional basketball player who last played for the Detroit Pistons
• Ben Way, English entrepreneur
• Ben Whishaw, English actor
• Ben Wildman-Tobriner, American Olympic swimming champion
• Ben Woodburn, Welsh football player
• Ben Wong, Hong Kong actor

Fictional characters called Ben

• Ben Harper, major character on comedy series My Family
• Ben Kenobi, major character on the film saga, Star Wars
• Ben Parker, the uncle of Peter Parker (Spider-Man) from Marvel Comics.
• Ben, Bill's brother in The Railway Series and the spinoff TV series Thomas and Friends
• Ben Skywalker, a major character in the Star Wars expanded universe
• Ben Tennyson, protagonist of the Cartoon Network's Ben 10 media franchise
• Ben Urich, investigative journalist for The Daily Bugle in the Marvel Universe
• Ben Wyatt, character from Parks and Recreation
• Ben, a rat in the eponymous movie, and theme song sung by Michael Jackson on his LP Ben.
• Gentle Ben, a bear featured in an eponymous 1965 novel, and in television and movie adaptations.
• Old Ben, a bear at the center of the William Faulkner story The Bear
• Ben, or Benny, the "1980-something space guy" from The Lego Movie