Famous People with Name Benjamin

Benjamin Nicholas "Nick" Monroe            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Benjamin Nicholas "Nick" Monroe: is an American professional tennis player. He is a graduate of Pembroke Hills High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in Communications. Monroe had a highly successful college career at the University of North Car

Benjamin "Ben" Mitchell            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Benjamin "Ben" Mitchell: is an Australian junior tennis player. He currently has a professional ATP Ranking of World No. 818 but his highest ranking is World No. 814. Mitchell mainly competes on the junior tour where he has enjoyed varying success. As a wild card, Mitchell reache

Benjamin Becker            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Benjamin Becker: is a German professional tennis player. Becker's primary weapon is a very big serve that he can hit at up to 220 km/h (136.7 mph), along with powerful groundstrokes. Becker was born at Merzig, Saarland, then part of West Germany. He won the 2004 NCAA sing

Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh: is Iranian-German tennis player who competes for the Iran Davis Cup team.

Benjamin Balleret            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Benjamin Balleret: is a professional tennis player on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour, best known for his April 2006 fairy tale run to the third round of the Monte Carlo Open, an ATP Masters Series tournament held in Monte Carlo, Monaco every year. Enteri

Joel Benjamin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joel Benjamin: is a chess Grandmaster and is currently the highest rated active chess player who was born in the United States. In 1998 Benjamin was voted “Grandmaster of the Year” by the U.S. Chess Federation.

Dwayne Benjamin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dwayne Benjamin: a Canadian economist and member of the University of Toronto faculty.Benjamin is currently the managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and an associate editor of the journal Economic Development and Cultural Change.Benjamin received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1984. He later obtained M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1986 and 1989 respectively.

Jason Benjamin            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Jason Benjamin: an Australian painter. Benjamin was born in Melbourne in 1971 and now lives and works in Sydney. He has been exhibiting since 1989 and won the 2005 Packing Room Prize at the Archibald Prize with a painting of actor Bill Hunter titled "Staring down the past". He won the 1993, 1994 and 1996 Mosman Art Prizes in Sydney. In 1997, he was awarded the prestigious Kings School Art Prize for landscape painting.

Sathima Bea Benjamin            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Sathima Bea Benjamin: a South African vocalist and composer born in Johannesburg, raised in Cape Town, and now based in New York City.As a youth, Sathima Bea Benjamin first performed popular music in talent contests at the local cinema (bioscope) during intermission. By the 1950s she was singing at various nightclubs, community dances and social events, performing with notable Cape Town pianists Tony Schilder and Henry February, amongst others. She built her repertoire watching British and American movies and transcribing lyrics from songs heard on the radio, where she discovered Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald. These musicians would come to influence her singing style, notably in terms of light phrasing and clear diction.

Bernard Benjamin            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Bernard Benjamin: was a noted British health statistician, actuary and demographer. He was author or co-author of at least six books and over 100 papers in learned journals.