Ebenezer (given name)
Ebenezer, less commonly spelled Ebenezar, is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "stone of the help" (derived from the phrase Eben ha-Ezer).[1] The name is sometimes abbreviated as Eben.
List of people with the given name Ebenezer
- Ebenezer Adams (1765–1841), American educator
- Ebenezer Ako-Adjei (1916–2002), Ghanaian politician
- Ebenezer Allen (1743–1806), American patriot
- Ebenezer Assifuah (born 1993), Ghanaian football player
- Ebenezer Beesley (1840–1906), writer and composer of Mormon religious music
- Eben Byers (1880-1932), Socialite, industrialist, athlete
- Ebenezer Cooke (disambiguation), several people
- Ebenezer Erskine (1680–1754), Scottish minister
- Ebenezer Ekuban (born 1976), American football player
- Ebenezer B. Finley (1833–1916), American Congressman
- Ebenezer Fontes Braga (born 1969), Brazilian mixed martial artist
- Ebenezer Albert Fox (1857–1926), English poacher
- Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928), British urbanist
- Ebenezer Mack (1791–1849), New York politician
- Ebenezer Maitland (1780–1858), English landowner and politician
- Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831–1924), English sportsman
- Ebenezer Obey (born 1942), Nigerian pop musician
- Ebenezer Prout (1835-1909), English musical theorist, writer, teacher, and composer - best known for his textbooks on music theory
- Ebenezer Rhodes (1762–1839), English topographer
- Ebenezer Russell (1747–1836), New York politician
- Ebenezer Webster (1739–1808), Father of Daniel Webster
Fictional characters
- Ebenezer Scrooge, fictional character in Charles Dickens' 1843 story A Christmas Carol.
- Ebenezer Le Page, the chief protagonist and fictional author of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. Edwards
- Ebenezer Blackadder, Blackadder character from Victorian England, introduced in 1988
- Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Kidnapped
- Ebenezer Loomer (Ebby), one of the two villains (along with his brother Jacob) in the 19th Famous Five book by Enid Blyton, Five Go to Demon's Rocks
- Ebenezar McCoy, character from The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.
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gollark: If you have them be unlabelled and have some code downloaded onto them, you could make it so you can't read the code, at least.
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See also
- Eben-Ezer, a place mentioned as the site of two battles in the Books of Samuel of the Old Testament
- "Ebeneezer Goode", a song by The Shamen
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