Ben
Ben is a masculine given name. It is often short for Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett, Benson, and Ebenezer.
Ben meaning "son of" is also found in Arabic as Ben or bin, Ibn/''ebn''.
Ben is a Chinese surname.
People with the given name
- Ben Adams, member of the British boy band A1
- Ben Affleck, American Academy Award-winning actor and screenwriter
- Ben Ashkenazy, American billionaire real estate developer
- Ben Askren, American sport wrestler and mixed martial artist
- Ben Axtman, American politician
- Ben Bailey, American comedian and game show host
- Ben Banogu, American football player
- Ben Barba, Australian rugby player
- Ben Barnes (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Bartch, American football player
- Ben Bartlett, British composer
- Ben Becker, German actor
- Ben Bentil, Ghanaian basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Ben Bernanke, American chair of the Federal Reserve Bank
- Ben Bishop, American ice hockey player
- Ben Bradlee, American newspaper editor
- Ben Braun, American basketball coach
- Ben Bredeson, American football player
- Ben Browder, American actor
- Ben Burman, American author
- Ben Burr-Kirven, American football player
- Ben Cardin, American lawyer and former politician
- Ben Carson, American surgeon and politician
- Ben Carter (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Chase, American football player
- Ben Chilwell, English footballer
- Ben Chiu, Taiwanese-American and Canadian computer programmer
- Ben Chiu (Hong Kong singer), Hong Kong dancer
- Ben Chukwuma, Nigerian-American football player
- Ben Cleveland, American football player
- Ben Clime, American football player
- Ben Cohen (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Coleman (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Collins, American screenwriter
- Ben Cousins, Australian rules footballer
- Ben Crenshaw, American golfer
- Ben Crompton, English actor
- Ben Cross, English actor
- Ben Curtis (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Cutting, Australian cricketer
- Ben Daley, Australian rugby player
- Ben Davis, Thai footballer
- Ben DiNucci, American football player
- Ben Domenech, American news commentator, publisher of The Federalist
- Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
- Ben Edwards (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Eisenhardt, American-Israeli basketball player
- Ben Ellefson, American football player
- Ben Fayot, Luxembourgish politician
- Ben Feldman, American actor
- Ben Ferencz, American lawyer
- Ben Folami, Australian footballer
- Ben Ford (chef), American chef
- Ben Folds, American singer-songwriter
- Ben Fordham, Australian journalist, sports reporter and radio presenter
- Ben Franklin, Prominent figure in the American Revolution
- Ben Garland, American football player
- Ben Gedeon, American football player
- Ben Gibbard, American lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie
- Ben Gibson, English footballer
- Ben Gillies, Australian drummer of Silverchair
- Ben Godfrey, English footballer
- Ben Goldsmith (musician), American singer-songwriter
- Ben Gordon, British-born American basketball player
- Ben Gottschalk, American football player
- Ben Guez, American baseball player
- Ben Hannant, Australian rugby player
- Ben Hardy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Harper, American musician
- Ben Harvey (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Herbert, American football coach and former player
- Ben Hogan, American golfer
- Ben Helfgott, Polish-born British weightlifter
- Ben Howard, British singer/songwriter
- Ben Hunt (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Jackson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Jeby, American boxer
- Ben Jelen, American singer
- Ben Johns, American professional pickleball player
- Ben Johnson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Jonson, English poet
- Ben Kane, English novelist
- Ben Kasica, American musician, lead guitarist for Skillet
- Ben Keays, Australian rules footballer
- Ben E. King, American soul and R&B singer
- Ben Kingsley, British actor
- Ben Kinsella, British murder victim
- Ben Knapen, Dutch politician and journalist
- Ben Kramer, American basketball player
- Ben Kudrna, American baseball player
- Ben Kweller, American rock musician
- Ben Labrosse, Canadian football player
- Ben Lane, English badminton player
- Ben Laughlin, American ten-pin bowler
- Ben Lawson, Australian actor
- Ben Leber, American football player
- Ben Lord, American drummer
- Ben Lowe, Australian rugby player
- Ben Mason (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
- Ben Miller, English actor and comedian
- Ben Moody, American musician
- Ben Moore, American basketball player
- Ben Roy Mottelson, Danish American physicist
- Ben Mulroney, Canadian television personality
- Ben Murdoch-Masila, New Zealand rugby player
- Ben Navarro, American billionaire, founder and CEO of Sherman Financial Group
- Ben Needham, British infant who disappeared in Greece
- Ben Needham (American football), American football linebacker
- Ben Nicholson, English artist
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American and Northern Cheyenne politician and rancher
- Ben Niemann, American football player
- Ben Ownby, American kidnap victim
- Ben J. Pierce, American YouTuber, singer-songwriter, and actor
- Ben Platt, American actor and singer-songwriter
- Ben Plucknett, American discus thrower
- Ben Powers (American football), American football player
- Ben Ray Luján, American politician
- Ben Richards (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Roethlisberger, American football player
- Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
- Ben Saraf, Israeli basketball player
- Ben Sauls, American football player
- Ben Schwartz, American actor
- Ben Selvin, American jazz musician and bandleader
- Ben Shneiderman, American computer scientist
- Ben Shapiro, American conservative political commentator
- Ben Sheets, American baseball player
- Ben Silverman (golfer), Canadian golfer
- Ben Simm (disambiguation), multiple people, including Sim, Sims, Simms
- Ben Simmons, Australian basketball player
- Ben Sinnott, American football player
- Ben Skowronek, American football player
- Ben Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben T H So, apprentice horse racing jockey
- Ben Spijkers, Dutch judoka
- Ben Stein, American law professor, economist, writer and actor
- Ben Stiller, American actor, writer and director
- Ben Stokes, English cricketer born in New Zealand
- Ben Swagerman, Dutch politician
- Ben Talley, American football player
- Ben Templeton, American co-creator of the comic strip Motley's Crew
- Ben Te'o, New Zealand rugby player
- Ben Thatcher, English footballer
- Ben Tulfo, Filipino television and radio personality
- Ben Underwood (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Unwin, Australian actor
- Ben Vautier, French artist
- Ben Verweij, Dutch footballer
- Ben Wallace, American basketball player
- Ben Wanger, American-Israeli baseball pitcher, Team Israel
- Ben Way, English entrepreneur
- Ben Whishaw, English actor
- Ben Wiegers, Dutch curling coach
- Ben Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer
- Ben Willbond, British actor
- Ben Wilson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Ben Woodburn, Welsh footballer
- Ben Wooldridge, American football player
- Ben Yurosek, American football player
- Ben (South Korean singer), South Korean singer
Fictional characters
- Ben, a character in the 2019 Canadian horror comic series Witch Creek Road
- Ben, a character in the 2007 Canadian-American television series Sushi Pack
- Ben, a character in the 2009 American romantic comedy-drama movie He's Just Not That Into You
- Ben, minor character of The Grudge 3
- Ben, Bill's twin brother in The Railway Series and the spinoff TV series Thomas and Friends
- Ben, a rat in the novel Ratman's Notebooks, films Willard and Ben, and theme song sung by Michael Jackson on his LP Ben
- Ben, or Benny, the "1980-something space guy" from The Lego Movie
- Old Ben, a bear at the center of the William Faulkner story The Bear
- Gentle Ben, a bear featured in an eponymous 1965 novel, and in television and movie adaptations
- Talking Ben, a brown dog and a protagonist of the Talking Tom & Friends media franchise
- Ben Bigger, a playable character from the video game Zenless Zone Zero
- Ben Elf, the titular protagonist in the British cartoon Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom
- Benjamin Florian/Ben, a protagonist of the Descendants franchise
- Ben C. L. / Soldier Boy, major character in the third season of The Boys
- Ben Geller-Willick-Bunch, the son of Ross Geller and Carol and Susan in NBC sitcom Friends
- Ben Grimm, also known as the Thing, from Marvel Comics
- Ben Gunn, from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
- Ben Hamill (Match), a mutant in the Marvel Universe
- Ben Hargreeves, main character in the comic book/Netflix series The Umbrella Academy
- Ben Harper, major character in the comedy series My Family
- Ben Kenobi, an alias of Obi-Wan Kenobi, major character in the film saga, Star Wars
- Ben Lawman/BEN, an antagonist of the Ben Drowned series
- Ben Nooper, a coastguard and supporting character in the animated series Fireman Sam
- Ben Packer, one of the five main protagonists in Bureau of Alien Detectors
- Ben Parker, the uncle of Peter Parker from Marvel Comics
- Ben Richards, main character of The Running Man
- Ben Ripley, a major protagonist of the young-adult series, Spy School
- Ben Skywalker, a major character in the Star Wars expanded universe
- Ben Solo, major character in the Star Wars sequel trilogy
- Ben Stone, a father in the TV series Manifest
- Ben Taylor, from Postman Pat
- 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 Wheeler, the lead character of the American sitcom ''Baby Daddy''