Benjamin Hall

Benjamin or Ben Hall may refer to:

  • Benjamin Hall (ironmaster) (1778–1817), Welsh entrepreneur
  • Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (1802–1867), British civil engineer, politician, and possible namesake of clock Big Ben
  • Ben Hall (bushranger) (1837–1865), Australian bushranger
  • Ben Hall (actor) (1899–1985), American actor
  • Ben M. Hall (1921–1970), American writer
  • Ben Hall (footballer) (1881–1963), English football player, manager and trainer
  • Benjamin Hall (athlete), Australian Paralympian

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin and/or hall:

    The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brain that is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious—to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.
    —Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)