Benjamin Short (19 April 1833 – 10 June 1912) was an English-born Australian insurance salesman and congregationalist evangelist.
He was born in London to spice merchant William Short and Elizabeth Smith.
He was the first canvasser for the Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP), and by the 1870s was lecturing on life insurance around New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand.
In 1881 he returned to Sydney as chief metropolitan agent for AMP, and in 1886 he retired to Bowral, New South Wales.
He was also involved in politics, running unsuccessfully for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Free Trader in 1894 and 1895.