Ebenezer (given name)
Ebenezer, less commonly spelled Ebenezar, is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "stone of the help". The name is sometimes abbreviated as Eben. Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has given the name a negative connotation.
List of people with the given name Ebenezer
- Ebenezer Adam, Ghanaian teacher and politician
- Ebenezer Adams, American educator
- Ebenezer Kwadwo Teye Addo, Ghanaian politician
- Ebenezer Addy, Ghanaian sociologist and former sprinter
- Ebenezer Ackon, Ghanaian footballer
- Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, Ghanaian politician
- Ebenezer Ato Ayirebi-Acquah, Ghanaian politician
- Ebenezer Akinsanmiro, Nigerian footballer
- Ebenezer Akuete, Ghanaian diplomat and economist
- Ebenezer Akwanga, Ambazonian independence activist
- Ebenezer Alden, American medical biographer and physician
- Ebenezer Allen (Vermont politician), American patriot
- Ebenezer Allen (Texas politician), American politician
- Eben Allen, Australian businessman and politician
- Ebenezer Assifuah, Ghanaian footballer
- Ebenezer Theophilus Odartei Ayeh, Ghanaian politician
- Ebenezer Thompson Baird, American minister
- Ebenezer Baldwin, American religious leader
- E.T. Barnette, American swindler
- Ebenezer Bassett, American ambassador
- Ebenezer Battelle, American politician and soldier
- Ebenezer Battle, American politician
- Ebenezer Bailey, American educator
- Ebenezer Beesley, writer and composer of Mormon religious music
- Ebenezer Blakely, American lawyer and politician
- Ebenezer Bradbury, American politician
- Ebenezer N. Briggs, American lawyer and politician
- Ebenezer Brigham, American pioneer and politician
- Ebenezer Brown, English-Canadian merchant and politician
- Ebenezer Bryce, Mormon pioneer
- Ebenezer John Buchanan, South African journalist and politician
- Ebenezer Burgess, American minister
- Ebenezer Butterick, American tailor and inventor
- Eben Byers, Socialite, industrialist, athlete
- Ebenezer Calendar,, Sierra Leonean musician
- Ebenezer Child, American composer
- Ebenezer Childs, American pioneer and legislator
- Ebenezer Coker, English silversmith
- Ebenezer Colls, English painter
- Ebenezer Cooke (disambiguation), several people
- Ebenezer Crafts, American businessman
- Ebenezer Cunningham, British mathematician
- Ebenezer Dadzie, Ghanaian footballer
- Ebenezer Moses Debrah, Ghanaian diplomat
- Ebenezer Denny, American soldier and politician
- Ebenezer V. Dickey, American politician from Pennsylvania
- Ebenezer Dimieari, Nigerian Anglican priest
- Ebenezer Doan, American-Canadian builder
- Ebenezer Donkor, Ghanaian actor
- Ebenezer P. Dorr, American merchant
- Ebenezer Dumont, American politician and general
- Ebby Edwards, English politician
- Ebenezer Elliott, English poet
- Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister
- Ebenezer Ekuban, American football player
- Ebenezer Elmer, American physician and politician
- Ebenezer Emmons, American geologist
- Eben Etzebeth, South African rugby player
- Ebenezer B. Finley, American Congressman
- Ebenezer Fitch, American Calvinist clergyman
- Ebenezer Fisher, American politician
- Ebenezer Fontes Braga, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- Ebb Ford, British marine zoologist
- Ebenezer Forrest, English attorney
- Ebenezer Foster, English politician
- Ebenezer Fox, English journalist
- Ebenezer Albert Fox, English poacher
- Ebenezer Ghansah, British taekwondo practitioner
- Ebenezer Goddard, English engineer, businessman, and politician
- Ebenezer Grant, English footballer
- Ebenezer O. Grosvenor, American politician
- Ebenezer Hagan, Ghanaian footballer
- Eben Hayes, American preacher and politician
- Ebenezer Hamlin, New Zealand politician
- Ebenezer Hazard, American businessman and publisher
- Ebenezer Henderson, Scottish minister and missionary
- Ebenezer Henderson (writer), Scottish historian and writer
- Ebenezer Herrick, American politician
- Ebenezer J. Hill, American politician
- Ebenezer R. Hoar, American politician and lawyer
- Ebenezer Howard, British urbanist
- Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt, American physician
- Ebenezer Kobina Fosu, Ghanaian politician
- Ebenezer Huntington, American politician and soldier
- Ebenezer Jackson Jr., American politician
- Ebenezer Johnson, American businessman and politician
- Ebenezer Alfred Johnson, American classical scholar
- Ebenezer Joshua, Vincentian politician
- Ebenezer Jones, English poet
- Ebenezer Kendell, Australian politician
- Ebenezer Kinnersley, English scientist, inventor, and lecturer
- Ebenezer Knowlton, American politician and minister
- Ebenezer Kojo Kum, Ghanaian politician
- Ebenezer Laing, Ghanaian botanist and geneticist
- Ebenezer Landells, English wood-engraver, illustrator, and magazine proprietor
- Ebenezer Lane, American politician
- Ebenezer Learned, American soldier
- Ebenezer Lounsbery, American politician
- Ebenezer Mack, New York politician
- Ebenezer Mackintosh, American shoemaker and protester
- Ebenezer James MacRae, Scottish architect
- Ebenezer Maitland, English landowner and politician
- Ebenezer Magoffin, Confederate officer
- Ebenezer E. Mason, American farmer and magistrate
- Ebenezer Joseph Mather, English activist and writer
- Ebenezer Mattoon, American politician
- Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman
- Ebenezer Moseley, American-Canadian shipbuilder
- Ebby Nelson-Addy, English footballer
- Ebenezer Norman, Liberian philanthropist
- Ebenezer F. Norton, American politician
- Ebenezer Ntlali, South African Anglican bishop
- Ebenezer Obey, Nigerian pop musician
- Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, Ghanaian entomologist
- Ebenezer Ofori, Ghanaian footballer
- Ebenezer J. Ormsbee, American politician
- Ebenezer Parkes, English politician
- Ebenezer Peck, American attorney and politician
- Ebenezer W. Peirce, American soldier
- Ebenezer Pemberton, American educator
- Ebenezer Pemberton (minister), colonial American clergyman
- Ebenezer J. Penniman, American politician
- Ebenezer Perry, Canadian merchant and politician
- Ebenezer Pettigrew, American politician
- Ebenezer Picken, Scottish poet
- Ebenezer Platt Rogers, American minister and author
- Ebenezer W. Poe, American politician
- Ebenezer Porter, American minister and writer
- Ebenezer Erskine Pressly, American theologian
- Ebenezer Prout, English musical theorist, writer, teacher, and composer
- Ebenezer Quartey, Ghanaian sprinter
- Ebenezer Raynale, American physician and politician
- Ebenezer Rhodes, English topographer
- Ebenezer Russell, American politician
- Ebenezer Sandford, New Zealand politician
- Ebenezer Sage, American politician
- Ebenezer Seaver, American politician
- Ebenezer Seeley, American lawyer and politician
- Ebenezer Sekyi-Hughes, Ghanaian politician
- Ebenezer J. Shields, American politician
- Ebenezer Shoobridge, Australian politician
- Ebenezer Sibly, English philosopher, astrologer, and writer
- Ebenezer Sunder Singh, Indian-American visual artist
- Ebenezer Skellie, American soldier
- Ebenezer "Slick" Smith, American stock car racer
- Ebenezer Sproat, American soldier
- Ebenezer Stevens, American soldier and merchant
- Ebenezer Stoddard, American politician
- Ebenezer Syme, Scottish-Australian journalist
- Ebenezer Teichelmann, surgeon, mountaineer and photographer
- Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi], Ghanaian politician
- Ebenezer Thayer, American politician
- Ebenezer Thomas, Welsh teacher and poet
- Ebenezer Trotman, English architect
- Ebenezer Tucker, American politician
- Ebenezer Vickery, Australian businessman, pastoralist, and philanthropist
- Ebenezer Wake Cook, English painter
- Ebenezer Walden, American politician
- Ebenezer A. Warner, American politician
- Ebenezer Ward, Australian politician and journalist
- Ebenezer Washburn, Canadian businessman and politician
- Ebenezer Webster, Father of Daniel Webster
- Ebenezer T. Wells, American jurist
- Ebenezer Whatley, English-Canadian farmer and politician
- Ebenezer Wilson, American politician
- Ebenezer Young, American politician
- Ebenezer Zane, American pioneer
Fictional characters
- Ebenezer Scrooge, fictional character in Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. Scrooge is widely known in the English-speaking world as a cold-hearted miser who becomes redeemed after being visited by three ghosts on Christmas.
- Ebenezer Dorset, fictional character in O. Henry's 1907 story "The Ransom of Red Chief"
- Ebenezer Le Page, the chief protagonist and fictional author of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. Edwards
- Ebenezer Blackadder, Blackadder character from Victorian England, introduced in 1988
- Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Kidnapped
- Ebenezer Loomer, one of the two villains in the 19th Famous Five book by Enid Blyton, Five Go to Demon's Rocks
- Ebenezer T. Squint, puppet character in the TV series Pinwheel
- Ebenezar McCoy, character from The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.
- Ebenezer, weird character in the Shamen song "Ebenezer Goode"
- Ebenezer Von Clutch, character from the video game Crash Bandicoot
- Ebenezer Lynxley, character from the 2025 animated film Zootopia 2.