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Pronunciation
  
Ben

Word/name
  
Dialectal Arabic/Hebrew

Meaning
  
"son of my sans amp" or "son of"

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.

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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 Begbie, American science fiction author and editor and the literal star of Waterloo alt band BRICKER he's a fantastic artist and overall good human. Very blonde
  • Ben Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post
  • Ben Browder, American actor
  • 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 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

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