Famous People with Name Benjamin

Benjamin Luke Cousins            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Benjamin Luke Cousins: is an Australian rules footballer. He is currently suspended from playing due to drug taking incidents. Cousins played over 200 games for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League. He is one of the most decorated players ine past decade, winning a Brownlow Medal, a Leigh Matthews Trophy as MVP, four club Best & Fairest awards and six selections in the All-Australian team.Cousins' football career has been marred by several off-field incidents which have attracted considerable negative publicity. These incidents involved recreational drug use requiring drug rehabilitation, a traffic conviction for avoiding a booze bus and associations with criminal elements which saw him several times almost expelled as a player by the club and league

Benjamin Michael Lee            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Benjamin Michael Lee: is an ARIA Award winning Australian musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake (2003). Lee dated Claire Danes for several years, but their relationship ended in 2003. He is currently dating the actress Ione Skye.[1] The couple got engaged on January 11, 2008.[1] Lee was nominated as PETA's World's Sexiest Vegetarian.[2]

Benjamin David Gillies            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Benjamin David Gillies: is an Australian musician, best known as the drummer of successful rock band Silverchair, which has sold over 6 million albums worldwide and has had more Top 20 hits during the last decade than any other Australian artist.Gillies was born in Newcastle, New South Wales. Gillies' first cousin is Channel 7 TV presenter, Kylie Gillies. The Gillies family is a part of the Surfrider Foundation, which promotes clean ocean water. Gillies was a quad drummer in The Marching Koalas and he taught his friend Chris Joannou of Silverchair how to play bass in three months. Gillies also plays the guitar and bass.

Benjamin Risinger            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Benjamin Risinger: is an Australian Baseball player .Signing with the Springfield Capitals, Risinger helped them to the 1998 Frontier League title as the regular shortstop. He hit .242 and slugged .366. He saw scant action for Melbourne in the winter, going 4 for 15 with 2

Benjamin John Day            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Benjamin John Day: is an Australian professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI Continental team Fly V Australia.

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.

Phyllis Jean Benjamin            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Phyllis Jean Benjamin: was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the electorate of Hobart from 10 May 1952 until retirement in 1976.She was the first Australian woman to lead an upper house of Parliament, and was the longest serving female politician in Australian po

Sir Benjamin Benjamin            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Sir Benjamin Benjamin: was an Australian businessman and politician. In 1870 he was elected to the Melbourne City Council in the Albert ward, becoming an Alderman in 1881 and Mayor between 1887 and 1889. He was the second Jewish Mayor of Melbourne, with his brother-in-law Edwar