Famous People with Name Ben

Ben Kelso            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ben Kelso: is an American former NBA player for the Detroit Pistons. He has coached basketball for schools in the Detroit area and was involved in a scandal in this capacity. In July, 2005, the Kansas State Wildcats hired Kelso as assistant coach for their men's basketball program.

Ben Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ben Alexander: was an Emmy-nominated American motion picture actor, who started out as a child actor in 1915.Born Nicholas Benton Alexander IV in Goldfield, Nevada and raised in California, Alexander made his screen debut at age of five in Every Pearl a Tear. He went on to portray Lillian Gish's young brother in D.W. Griffith's Hearts of the World. It was in another World War I classic, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), that Alexander made his first positive impression as an adult actor in the role of Kemmerick, the tragic amputation victim.

Ben Blue            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ben Blue: , was a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec,In the 1920s Bernstein joined a popular orchestra, Jack White and His Montrealers. The entire band emphasized comedy, and would continually interact with the joke-cracking maestro. Blue, the drummer, would sometimes deliver corny jokes while wearing a ridiculously false beard. The band emigrated to the United States, and appeared in two early sound musicals: the Vitaphone short subject Jack White and His Montrealers and Universal's feature-length Technicolor revue King of Jazz.

Ben Stephens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ben Stephens: was an American professional basketball player.A 6'0" guard-forward from the University of Iowa, Stephens played three seasons (1939-1942) in the National Basketball League as a member of the Akron Wingfoots. He led the league in scoring during the 1940-41 season with an 11.0 points per game average. His basketball career was interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the United States Navy. After the war, Stephens worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company before dying in 1966.

Ben Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ben Wallace: is an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Nicknamed Big Ben, The Body, he plays the positions of center and power forward, and is 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) and 240 lb (110 kg). He is a four-time winner of the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award (a feat accomplished by only one other player Dikembe Mutombo), and is regarded as one of the finest defensive players in the game. Wallace was considered by many to be the cornerstone of the Detroit Pistons' success in the 2000s, culminating in a championship in 2004. On July 13, 2006, Wallace signed a four-year $60 million contract with the Chicago Bulls. On February 21, 2008, Wallace was involved in a 3-team deal and traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

George Ben            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Ben: was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Bracondale and then Humber in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1965 as a Liberal member until his defeat in the 1971 provincial election. Ben was a member of Toronto City Council in the early 1960s, representing Ward 5, and returned to council in the 1972 municipal election. He was re-elected for the final time in 1978, and died in office on December 17, 1978. Ben was first elected to Toronto City Council in 1962, representing Ward 5, placing first, which meant he was also concurrently a member of Metropolitan Toronto Council. In 1965, after the death of Liberal MPP Joseph Gould, he won the Liberal Party of Ontario's nomination for the Bracondale constituency. He won the September 15 by-election, becoming the last MPP from Bracondale, as the constituency was redistributed out of existence for the 1967 Ontario general election.