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    Ben Affleck

    Age 39 Male
    Actor
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    Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt, better known as Ben Affleck, is an American actor, film director, writer, and producer. He became known with his performances in Kevin Smith's films such as Mallrats (1995) and Chasing Amy (1997).read more

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    Ben Stiller

    Age 46 Male
    Actor, Comedian, Director, Writer
    3,192 Photos

    Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller is an American comedian, actor, writer, film director, and producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. After beginning his acting career with a play, Stiller wrote several mockumentaries, and was offered two of his own shows, both entitled The Ben Stiller Show. He began acting in films, and made his directorial debut with Reality Bites.read more

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    Ben Roethlisberger

    Age 30 Male
    Quarterback, American Football Player, Writer
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    Benjamin Todd "Ben" Roethlisberger, nicknamed Big Ben, is an American football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Steelers in the first round (11th overall) in the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). Roethlisberger earned the AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2004 and his first Pro Bowl selection in 2007.read more

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    Ben Harper

    Age 42 Male
    Singer-songwriter and Musician
    629 Photos

    Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances and activism. Harper's fan base spans several continents. His albums have been commercially successful in North America, Europe and Oceania.read more

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    Ben Kingsley

    Age 68 Male
    Actor
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    Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE is an English actor who has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also known for his performances in the films Schindler's List, Sexy Beast (2000), House of Sand and Fog (2003), BloodRayne (2005) and Hugo (2011).read more

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    Ben Vereen

    Age 65 Male
    Actor, Singer, and Dancer
    533 Photos

    Ben Vereen is an American actor, dancer, and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows. Vereen graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts.

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    Ben Bernanke

    Age 58 Male
    Politician, Economist, President
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    Ben Shalom Bernanke, is an American economist and currently chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States. During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke has overseen the Federal Reserve's response to the late-2000s financial crisis. Before becoming Federal Reserve chairman, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the department of economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave.read more

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    Ben Folds

    Age 45 Male
    Composer, Singer, Songwriter
    85 Photos

    Benjamin Scott "Ben" Folds is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. From 1995-2000, Folds was the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. Since the group disbanded, Folds has performed as a solo artist and has toured all over the world.read more

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    Ben Stein

    Age 67 Male
    Actor, Writer, Commentator, Lawyer, Teacher, Humorist
    64 Photos

    Benjamin Jeremy "Ben" Stein is an American actor, writer, lawyer, and commentator on political and economic issues. He attained early success as a speechwriter for American presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Later, he entered the entertainment field and became an actor, comedian, and Emmy Award-winning game show host. Stein has frequently written commentaries on economic, political, and social issues, along with financial advice to individual investors.read more

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    Ben Gold

    1898 - 1985 Male
    Politician

    Benjamin Gold was an American labor leader who was prosecuted for his communist political views under McCarthyism. He was president of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union from 1937 to 1955.read more

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    Ben Nelson

    Age 71 Male
    Senator, Lawyer, Elder
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    Earl Benjamin "Ben" Nelson is the senior United States Senator from Nebraska, serving since 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Nelson entered politics in 1990, when he was elected the 37th Governor of Nebraska. He was re-elected in 1994 with 74% of the vote. Nelson ran for an open seat in the U.S. Senate in 1996, losing to Republican Chuck Hagel, and left the Governor's office in January 1999 due to term limits, after serving two full terms.read more

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    Ben Elton

    Age 53 Male
    Writer, Comedian, Dramatist
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    Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton is an English-Australian comedian, author, playwright and director. He was the leader of the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, as a writer on such cult series as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as also a successful stand-up comedian on stage and TV. He was a high-profile frontman of 1980s left-wing political satire.read more

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    Ben Daniels

    Age 47 Male
    United Kingdom
    35 Photos

    Ben Daniels is an English actor. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), he has taken on roles in numerous productions. On television he has appeared in, among other shows, The Lost Language of Cranes (1991), Conspiracy (2001), Cutting It (2002–2005), Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005), The Virgin Queen (2005) and The State Within (2006).read more

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    Ben Hecht

    1894 - 1964 Male
    Screenwriter

    'Ben Hecht was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. Film historian Richard Corliss called him "the" Hollywood screenwriter, someone who "personified Hollywood itself.read more

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    Ben Miller

    Age 46 Male
    Comedian, Director, Actor
    173 Photos

    Bennet Evan "Ben" Miller is an English comedian, actor and director. He is perhaps best known as one half of comedy double act Armstrong and Miller, along with Alexander Armstrong. Together the pair wrote and starred in the Channel 4 sketch show Armstrong and Miller, and the more recent BBC television sketch show The Armstrong and Miller Show. As of 2011, he is starring in the crime drama series Death in Paradise.read more

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    Ben Kweller

    Age 30 Male
    Singer, Songwriter, Musician
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    Ben Kweller is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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    Ben Cardin

    Age 68 Male
    Politician
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    Benjamin Louis "Ben" Cardin is the junior United States Senator from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. Before his election to the Senate, Cardin was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing from 1987 to 2007. National Journal rates him as the third most liberal Democrat in the Senate. Cardin was elected to succeed Paul Sarbanes in the 2006 U.S.read more

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    Ben Jonson

    1572 - 1637 Male
    Dramatist, Poet and Actor

    Benjamin "Ben" Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.read more

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    Ben Broussard

    Age 35 Male
    Baseball Player
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    Benjamin Isaac Broussard is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman. He is currently a musician. Broussard was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 1999 Major League Baseball Draft. During a 7-year baseball career, he played from 2002-2008 for the Cleveland Indians, Seattle Mariners, and the Texas Rangers. Broussard has released two full-length music albums. The first, his self titled album, was released in 2005.read more

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    Ben Cousins

    Age 33 Male
    Australian Footballer

    Benjamin Luke "Ben" Cousins is a former Australian rules footballer, best known for his 270-game career with West Coast and Richmond in the Australian Football League. Cousins is listed by journalist Mike Sheahan as one of the top 50 players of all time.read more

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    Ben May

    Age 28 Male
    Footballer

    Ben Steven May is an English footballer who plays for League Two side Barnet as a striker, on loan from Stevenage. May began his career at Southampton's youth academy in 1998, before playing at Fulham's centre of excellence for a year. In 2000, he moved once again, this time joining Millwall's youth set-up. Ahead of the 2002–03 season, May signed his first professional contract with the club, making his debut in August 2002.read more

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    Ben Cross

    Age 64 Male
    Actor
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    Ben Cross is a British actor of the stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.

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    Ben Heppner

    Age 56 Male
    Tenor, Voice, Talent

    Ben Heppner, CC is a Canadian tenor, specializing in opera and other classical works for voice. Heppner was born in Murrayville, British Columbia, and lived in Dawson Creek. He began his musical studies at the University of British Columbia and first attracted national attention when he won the CBC Talent Festival in 1979. Since then, he has gone on to become one of the most prominent dramatic tenors active today.read more

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    Ben Johnston

    Age 86 Male
    Composer, Musician
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    Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Jr. is a composer of contemporary music in just intonation: "one of the foremost composers of microtonal music" (Bush 1997). He was called "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer" in 1990 by American critic John Rockwell (Taylor 2002, 54).read more

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    Ben Bradshaw

    Age 51 Male
    Politician, Member of Parliament, Foreign Minister
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    Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter since 1997, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.read more