Ben Dova (born as Joseph Späh (also written as Spah) on March 14, 1905, in Strasbourg, Alsace–Lorraine – died September 30, 1986, in Manassas, Virginia) was a German–American acrobat and actor.

He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1922 and became a contortionist in the vaudeville genre, using the artist name Ben Dova, from the English "bend over".

His signature act was playing a drunk man balancing on a street light.

In 1933 he performed his act on top of the 56-story Chanin Building in New York with no safety measures, for the benefit of the newsreels.

[2][3] The FBI investigated him as a possible saboteur but found no evidence and cleared him from wrongdoing.