Big Ben (disambiguation)

Big Ben (disambiguation)

Big Ben may refer to:
* Big Ben, the nickname of the "Great Bell" housed within the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, in London, United Kingdom
* Big Ben (Heard Island), a massif on Heard Island
* Big Ben (horse), a Canadian show jumping horse
* Big Ben (solitaire), a solitaire card game resembling Clock Patience
* Big Ben (comics), A fictional British superhero featured in comic books and a planned animated TV show.
* Project Big Ben, a British WWII operation to reconstruct and evaluate captured missiles such as the V-2 (see Operation Crossbow). [McGovern, J. "Crossbow and Overcast". W. Morrow: New York, 1964. (p 74)]
* A model of alarm clock manufactured by Westclox
* A brand of chewing tobacco in the 1930s
* A series of 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles, made by Milton Bradley
* The name of a whale in the stop-motion animated special "Rudolph's Shiny New Year"
* West Virginia Route 193, also called the "Big Ben" Bowen Highway

The nickname Big Ben for a person may refer to:
* Ben Roethlisberger, the current starting quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers
* Ben Wallace, NBA player for the Cleveland Cavaliers
* Ben Gordon, NBA player for the Chicago Bulls.
* Ben McDonald, former Major League Baseball pitcher
* Ben Dunkelman, a notable Canadian veteran of the Second World War and other conflicts
* Ben Maller, a national sports radio host
* Ben Bowen, a well-known cancer patient

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