- Big Ben (disambiguation)
Big Ben may refer to:
* Big Ben, the nickname of the "Great Bell" housed within the Clock Tower of thePalace of Westminster , inLondon ,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 Britishsuperhero featured incomic book s and a plannedanimated TV show.
*Project Big Ben , a British WWII operation to reconstruct and evaluate captured missiles such as theV-2 (seeOperation Crossbow ). [McGovern, J. "Crossbow and Overcast". W. Morrow: New York, 1964. (p 74)]
* A model ofalarm clock manufactured byWestclox
* A brand of chewingtobacco 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 HighwayThe
nickname Big Ben for a person may refer to:
*Ben Roethlisberger , the current startingquarterback of thePittsburgh Steelers
*Ben Wallace , NBA player for theCleveland Cavaliers
*Ben Gordon , NBA player for theChicago Bulls .
*Ben McDonald , formerMajor League Baseball pitcher
*Ben Dunkelman , a notable Canadian veteran of theSecond World War and other conflicts
*Ben Maller , a national sports radio host
*Ben Bowen , a well-known cancer patientReferences
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