Ben Franklin is often erroneously attributed to having started daylight savings time! He apparently anonymously published a satire in 1784 which is where some people think it came from, but it was really proposed in 1907 by William Willett, though the Romans were keen to similar ideas way before this.

While I’m on the topic of Ben Franklin, being rather important, he has made many appearances in pop-culture.

He appears in Tony Hawk’s Underground 2.

Hawkeye from M*A*S*H’s full name is Benjamin Franklin Pierce, which is a shout out to BF. Also, characters from M. Butterfly, the Sandlot, Prison Break, and National Treasure.

He is a card in Early American Chrononauts (I think a relic card called “Franklin’s Kite”).

He was in season 3 of Bewitched when Aunt Clara accidentally brings him forward in time to repair a broken electrical lamp.

He was portrayed in Day of the Tentacle (Hilariously).

He has been in skits on SNL and Mad TV. The recap for Mad TV (somehow) sounds funnier.

In a 2004 sketch on the FOX show Mad TV, Franklin, played by Paul Vogt, sends
Samuel Adams, played by Josh Meyers, to the future in a time machine he made
from a roll-top desk. Franklin wanted to know if the American Revolution was a
success, but gets frustrated when Adams only comes back to tell him that Samuel
Adams Beer is a success. The time machine also brings back a man named Jerry,
played by Ike Barinholtz, who is little help to Franklin.

And in the Office, he was hired as an adult entertainer.

Source: Wiki