Beekman

Beekman is a Dutch toponymic surname, literally translating as "creek man". Variant forms are Beeckman and Beekmans. The Estonian poet Vladimir Beekman's family originally carried the name Peekmann. People with the surname include:

Beekman family of New York
Prominent descendants of the Beekman family originally of Overijssel, Netherlands:
 * Wilhelmus Beekman (1623-1707), Treasurer of the Dutch West India Company, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1653/58-1663
 * Gerardus Beekman (1653–1723), colonel, surgeon, Governor of the Province of New York

Other people with the surname

 * Aimée Beekman (born 1933), Estonian writer, wife of Vladimir
 * Allan Beekman (1913–2001), American reporter and author
 * Anton Albert Beekman (1854–1947), Dutch geographer
 * Augustus A. Beekman (1923-2008), New York City fire commissioner
 * Cornelius C. Beekman (1828–1915), American banker in Jacksonville, Oregon
 * (1919–2010), Dutch World War II resistance fighter, husband of Yolande
 * Josh Beekman (born 1983), American football player and coach
 * Marcel Beekman (born 1969), Dutch tenor
 * Vladimir Beekman (1929–2009), Estonian writer, poet and translator, husband of Aimée
 * Yolande Beekman (1911–1944), World War II heroine, wife of Jaap
 * Beekmans
 * Gerard Beekmans (born 1979), Dutch programmer
 * Paul Beekmans (born 1982), Dutch footballer

Given name

 * Beekman Du Barry (1828–1901), United States Army Brigadier General
 * Beekman V. Hoffman (1789–1834), United States Navy officer
 * Beekman Winthrop (1874–1940), American Governor of Puerto Rico 1909–13
 * Garry Beekman Trudeau (born 1948), American cartoonist
 * Henry Beekman Livingston (1748–1828), American poet

Places and buildings
All named after descendants of Willem Beekman:
 * Beekman, New York, a town in Dutchess County named after Hendrick Beekman (1652-1716), son of Willem
 * Beekman Fire District
 * Beekman Park
 * Beekman Corners, New York, community now part of Sharon, New York
 * Beekmantown, New York, a town in Clinton County, New York
 * Beekman Place (Manhattan), street that was the site of the Beekman family mansion, Mount Pleasant
 * The Beekman, previously known as Beekman Tower, a skyscraper designed by Frank Gehry, New York
 * Beekman (Panhellenic) Tower, skyscraper designed by John Mead Howels (constructed 1927–29), New York
 * Beekman Downtown Hospital or Lower Manhattan Hospital, New York
 * Beekman Peninsula of Baffin Island, named after James W. Beekman, of New York
 * Beekman Native Plant Arboretum, in Oregon, named after Cornelius C. Beekman