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Benjamin Harvey Bailey Smith, professionally known as Doc Brown, is an English actor, comedian, rapper, screenwriter, songwriter, producer, and voiceover artist. He portrayed DS Joe Hawkins in the television series Law & Order: UK. He is also known for…
1946–2012
Benjamin Sylvester Blacknall (September 26, 1946 – April 25, 2012) was an American football player and coach also former sergeant (Sgt.) in the Air Force. He served as the head football coach for Delaware Hornets at Delaware State University from 2000 to…
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Benjamin Bowling is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at King's College London, an author and an honorary psychotherapist. He is a recipient of the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize awarded for the best article in the British Journal of Criminology in…
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Ben Caldwell (1945) is a Los Angeles-based arts educator and independent filmmaker. Caldwell developed an affinity for film helping his grandfather, a projector, at a small theater in New Mexico. After serving in Vietnam, Caldwell studied photography and…
April 11, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of six digital files: 2011.174.77.1a, 2011.174.77.1b, 2011.174.77.1c, 2011.174.77.1d, 2011.174.77.1e, and 2011.174.77.1f. Ben Caldwell shares his family's history in the Southwest and his childhood experience in New Mexico.…
1984–
Ben Ibrahim Camara (born 20 August 1984 in Bonn) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Torquay United.
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Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official serving as the National Nutrition Advisor at the Department of Agriculture since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he…
Biography
Ben Carter (February 10, 1910/1907 – December 12, 1946) was an American actor and casting agent. He appeared in numerous Hollywood feature films including The Harvey Girls, Tin Pan Alley, Crash Dive, Born to Sing, and Dixie Jamboree.
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Ben Clark is an American politician who served in the North Carolina Senate from the 21st district (representing constituents in Hoke and Cumberland counties) from 2013 to 2023. He also served as secretary of the Senate Democratic caucus. On September 20,…
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Ben Terrence Coates Jr. (born August 16, 1969) is an American former professional football tight end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons, primarily with the New England Patriots. He played college football for the Livingstone…
1967
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pamphlet about Ben Davis. The front cover has a brown and white image of Ben Davis' face on a red and pink background with white text. The interior of the pamphlet consists of forty-eight pages of text and images about Ben Davis. The back of the pamphlet…
Loading image…1938–2015
Benjamin Earl King (né Nelson; September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015) was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group the Drifters, singing the lead vocals on three of…
Born 2002
Benjamin Njongoue Elliott (born 5 November 2002) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder, most recently for EFL League One club Reading. Born in England, he represents Cameroon at international level.
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Ben F. Gross (1921 – August 13, 2012) was an American politician, union leader, and civil right activist who was the first African-American to serve as mayor of Milpitas and the first African-American mayor to lead a predominantly white city in California.
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Benjamin Franklin Jones (born 1941) is an American visual artist, educator, and activist, whose creative career spans six decades. His multimedia artworks draw on his travel and research in Africa, Europe, South America, the United States and the…
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Benjamin Harrison Fletcher (April 13, 1890 – July 10, 1949) was an early 20th-century African-American labor leader and public speaker. He was a prominent member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or the "Wobblies"), a left-wing trade union which…
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Louis Benjamin Francisco (born October 23, 1981) is an American former professional baseball outfielder whose career has also included scouting.
1942–
Benjamin Frasier Jr. (born c. 1942) is a perennial candidate for political office in South Carolina, having run for Congress over fifteen times since 1972. He became the Democratic Party nominee for the November 2010 election, "surpris[ing] observers" by…
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Benjamin Ashenafi Gordon (born April 4, 1983) is a British-American former professional basketball player. He played for 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Bobcats, and Orlando Magic.…
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Hassie Benjamin Haith Jr. (born 1942), also known as Boston Ben, is an American activist, social worker, and designer of the Juneteenth flag. Haith has been active in anti-crime groups since the 1980s.
1952–
Ben Harney (born 29 August 1952 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor and dancer who was most active in his career between 1972 and 1985. Harney attended Manhattan's High School of Music & Art, graduating in 1970. Harney won the 1982 Tony Award for…
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Benjamin Charles Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae, and rock music, and he is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances,…
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Ben Hunte (born 22 October 1992) is a British journalist, news presenter and correspondent at CNN. He previously worked for Vice News as a global correspondent and for the BBC as the broadcaster's first LGBT correspondent and a West Africa correspondent.…
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Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18, 1973) is an American political activist. He served as the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 2008 to 2013. Jealous was the Democratic nominee in the 2018…
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