Ben
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| Related names | Benjamin, Benedict, Bengt, Bennett, Benoit, Benvolio, Benito, Benson |
Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, or Benson, and is also a very common given name in its own right.
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).
The Arabic "Bin" (بن) or "Ibn" (ابن) or "Ben" (dialectal Arabic) means "son of".
People with the given name
- Ben Adams (born 1981), member of the British boy band A1
- Ben Affleck (born 1972), American actor and screenwriter
- Ben Ashkenazy (born 1968/69), American billionaire real estate developer
- Ben Banogu (born 1996), American football player
- Ben Barba (born 1989), Australian rugby player
- Ben Barnes (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Bartch (born 1998), American football player
- Ben Bartlett British composer
- Ben Becker (born 1964), German actor
- Ben Bernanke (born 1953), chair of the Federal Reserve Bank
- Ben Bishop (born 1986), American ice hockey player
- Ben Bradlee (1921–2014), American newspaper editor
- Ben Braun (born 1953), American basketball coach
- Ben Bredeson (born 1999), American football player
- Ben Browder (born 1962), American actor
- Ben Burman (1896–1984), American author
- Ben Burr-Kirven (born 1997), American football player
- Ben Carson (born 1951), American surgeon and politician
- Ben Chase (1923–1998), American football player
- Ben Chilwell (born 1996), English footballer
- Ben Clime (1891–1973), American football player
- Ben Cohen (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Coleman (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Cousins (born 1978), Australian football player
- Ben Crenshaw (born 1952), American golfer
- Ben Crompton (born 1974), English actor
- Ben Cross (born 1947), English actor
- Ben Curtis (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Cutting (born 1987), Australian cricketer
- Ben Daley (born 1988), Australian rugby player
- Ben DiNucci (born 1996), American football player
- Ben Eager (born 1984), Canadian ice hockey player
- Ben Edwards (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Fayot (born 1937), Luxembourgian politician
- Ben Feldman (actor) (born 1980), American actor
- Ben Folds (born 1966), singer-songwriter
- Ben Garland (born 1988), American football player
- Ben Gedeon (born 1994), American football player
- Ben Gibbard (born 1976), lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie
- Ben Gibson (born 1993), English football player
- Ben Gillies (born 1979), drummer of Silverchair
- Ben Gordon (born 1983), basketball player
- Ben Gottschalk (born 1992), American NFL football player
- Ben Guez (born 1987), American baseball player
- Ben Hannant (born 1984), Australian rugby player
- Ben Harper (born 1969), American musician
- Ben Harvey (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Hogan (1912–1997), American golfer
- Ben Helfgott (born 1929), Polish-born British weightlifter
- Ben Howard (born 1987), British singer/songwriter
- Ben Hunt (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Jackson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Jeby (1909–1985), American boxer
- Ben Jelen (born 1979), American singer
- Ben Johnson (born 1961), Canadian sprinter
- Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English poet
- Ben Kane (born 1970), English novelist
- Ben Kasica, American musician, lead guitarist for Skillet
- Ben Keays (born 1997), Australian footballer
- Ben E. King (1938–2015), American soul and R&B singer
- Ben Kingsley (born 1943), British actor
- Ben Kinsella (1991–2008), British murder victim
- Ben Knapen (born 1951), Dutch politician and journalist
- Ben Kweller (born 1981), American rock musician
- Ben Lawson (born 1980), Australian actor
- Ben Leber (born 1978), American football player
- Ben Lowe (born 1985), Australian rugby player
- Ben Mendelsohn (born 1969), Australian actor
- Ben Miller (born 1966), English actor and comedian
- Ben Moody (born 1981), American musician
- Ben Roy Mottelson (born 1926), Danish American physicist
- Ben Murdoch-Masila (born 1991), New Zealand rugby player
- Ben Navarro (born 1962/1963), American billionaire, founder and CEO of Sherman Financial Group
- Ben Nicholson (1894–1982), English artist
- Ben Niemann (born 1995), American football player
- Ben Ownby, American kidnap victim
- Ben J. Pierce (born 1999), American YouTuber, singer-songwriter, and actor
- Ben Plucknett (1954–2002), American discus thrower
- Ben Powers (American football) (born 1997), American football player
- Ben Richards (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Roethlisberger (born 1982), American football player
- Ben Sahar (born 1989), Israeli football player
- Ben Schwartz (born 1981), American actor
- Ben Selvin (1898–1980), American jazz musician and bandleader
- Ben Shneiderman (born 1947), American computer scientist
- Ben Simmons (born 1996), Australian basketball player
- Ben Shapiro (born 1984), American conservative political commentator
- Ben Sheets (born 1978), American baseball player
- Ben Silverman (born 1987), Canadian professional PGA golfer
- Ben Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Spijkers (born 1961), Dutch judoka
- Ben Stein (born 1944), law professor, economist, writer and actor
- Ben Stiller (born 1965), American actor, writer and director
- Ben Swagerman (born 1959), Dutch politician
- Ben Talley (born 1972), American football player
- Ben Templeton (born 1940), co-creator of the comic strip Motley's Crew
- Ben Te'o (born 1987), New Zealand rugby player
- Ben Thatcher (born 1975), English football player
- Ben Underwood (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Unwin (1977–2019), Australian actor
- Ben Vautier (born 1935), French Fluxus artist, also known simply as 'Ben'
- Ben Verweij (1895–1951), Dutch footballer
- Ben Wallace (born 1974), American basketball player
- Ben Way (born 1980), English entrepreneur
- Ben Whishaw (born 1980), English actor
- Ben Wildman-Tobriner (born 1984), American swimmer
- Ben Woodburn (born 1999), Welsh football player
- Ben Wong (born 1967), Hong Kong actor
Fictional characters
- Ben Harper, major character on comedy series My Family
- Ben Kenobi, major character in the film saga, Star Wars
- Ben Richards, main character of The Running Man
- Ben Solo, major character in the Star Wars sequel trilogy
- 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 Packer, one of the five main protagonists in Bureau of Alien Detectors
- 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 Lawson/BEN, an antagonist of the Ben Drowned series (2010-20)
- Ben, or Benny, the "1980-something space guy" from The Lego Movie
- Talking Ben, a protagonist of the Talking Tom and Friends media franchise
- Benjamin Florian/Ben, a protagonist of the Descendants Franchise (2015-19)