Ben Gardner (portrayed by Craig Kingsbury) was a character from the 1975 thriller Jaws. He was a fisherman from Amity Island and one of the victims of the infamous "Amity Incident".
As a seasoned fisherman of game fish in the region, Gardner had hoped to collect the reward for catching the rogue shark that had plagued Amity in the summer of 1974. The ensuing frenzy to win the bounty offered by Mrs. Kintner, created a disorganized 'shark posse' armada with Gardner and his first-mate leading the pack. Sometime late in the afternoon or evening of the first day out in search of his quarry, a large great white shark attacked Gardner's boat. Bite marks in the hull were found by Matthew Hooper and Martin Brody during a subsequent investigation. Hooper found a shark tooth within the hull and discovered Gardner's severed head, causing Hooper to drop the tooth and swim up to the surface in terror. No trace of the first-mate was found and his fate remains unknown.