Bea (given name)

Bea is a feminine given name, often short for Beatrice. Notable people with the name include:


 * Bea Alonzo (born 1987), Filipina actress and singer
 * Bea Arthur (1922–2009), American actress
 * Bea Ballard (born 1959), British television producer
 * Bea Barrett (1916–2002), American amateur golfer
 * Bea Benaderet (1906–1968), American actress
 * Bea Bielik (born 1980), American tennis player
 * Bea Binene (born 1997), Filipina actress and singer
 * Bea Booze (1912–1986), American R&B and jazz singer
 * Bea Chester (born c. 1921), American baseball player
 * Bea Feitler (1938–1982), Brazilian-born art-director
 * Bea Firth (1946–2008), Canadian politician
 * Bea Gaddy (1933–2001), American humanitarian
 * Béa Gonzalez (born 1962), Spanish-Canadian novelist
 * Bea Gorton (1946–2020), American college basketball coach
 * Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019), also known as Bea Kristol, American historian
 * Beatrice Lillie (1894–1989), Canadian actress
 * Beatrice Gomez (born 1995), Filipina beauty queen and model
 * Bea Maddock (1934–2016), Australian artist
 * Bea Miles (1902–1973), Australian eccentric
 * Bea Miller (born 1999), American singer
 * Bea Nettles (born 1946), art photographer and author
 * Bea Nicolas (born 1994), Filipina actress
 * Bea Palya (born 1976), Hungarian folk singer
 * Bea Santiago (born 1990), Filipina actress and beauty queen of Miss Earth 2017
 * Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz (1898–1969), also known as Bea Schwartz, Dutch phytopathologist
 * Bea Segura (born 1975), Spanish actress
 * Bea Wain (1917–2017), American singer
 * Bea Wyler (born 1951), Swiss-German rabbi

Fictional characters

 * Bea (Dennis the Menace), in the British comic strip Dennis the Menace
 * Bea, one of the Gym Leaders in Pokémon Sword and Shield
 * Bea Goldfishberg, from the American animated television series Fish Hooks
 * Beatrice "Bea" Santello, from the video game Night in the Woods
 * Bea Spells-a-Lot, a Lalaloopsy doll and character in the TV series