Benjamin Bakewell Atterbury (August 15, 1815 – May 2, 1900) was an American businessman and philanthropist.
Through his sister Julia, he was an uncle to prominent surgeon Lewis Atterbury Stimson and through his brother John, he was an uncle to Brig.-Gen. William Wallace Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
He went into partnership with Amos Sawyer Thornton, Edward Johnson Cole Atterbury in the business of Commission Agents in Manchester.
For fifty years, he was an officer of the House of Refuge on Randall's Island.
[12] Atterbury died at his residence in The Dakota on Central Park West in Manhattan on May 2, 1900.