Benny Davis (August 21, 1895 - December 20, 1979) was a vaudeville performer and writer of popular songs.

He began writing songs when working as an accompanist for Blossom Seeley.

His most popular song was "Baby Face", written in 1926 with Harry Akst.

For Broadway, Davis wrote the score for the 1927 edition of Artists and Models and for the 1929 show Sons o' Guns.

[3][4] Davis's liberal use of false rhymes in his songs was scorned by some pure practitioners of the craft, and prompted Howard Dietz to compose a couplet: "Heaven Save Us|From Benny Davis.