Beach (disambiguation)

A beach is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles along the shoreline of a body of water.

Beach, Beaches or beaching may also refer to:

Geography

Canada

• Beaches (electoral district), a federal electoral district in Toronto, Ontario
• Beaches (provincial electoral district), a provincial riding in Toronto, Ontario
• Beaches, Newfoundland and Labrador, a village
• The Beaches, Toronto, a neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada

United States

• Beach, Georgia, an unincorporated community
• Beach, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Beach, North Dakota, a town
• Beach, Washington, an unincorporated community
• Jacksonville Beaches, or Beaches, a neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida
• The Beach (waterpark), a former water park in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• The Beach at Adventure Landing, a water park in Mason, Ohio

Other places

• Beach, Gloucestershire, a village in England
• Kingdom of Beach, a promontory of Terra Australis appearing on Latin maps of the 16th century
• List of beaches, of the world, sorted by country

Arts, entertainment, and media

Books

• Beaches (novel), a 1986 novel by Iris Rainer Dart
• The Beach (novel), a 1996 novel by Alex Garland
• Sebastian Beach, character in the stories of P. G. Wodehouse

Film, TV and Radio

• Beaches (1988 film), starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey
• Beaches (2017 film), a television remake of the 1988 film, starring Idina Menzel and Nia Long
• The Beach (film), a 2000 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio
• The Beach (TV series), a 2020 Australian lifestyle television shown on SBS and NITV
• The Beach (UK radio station), a British commercial local radio station in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
• CHWC-FM, a radio station in Goderich, Ontario, Canada, that identifies as "The Beach"

Music

• Beach music, a music genre of the 1950s and 1960s
• The Beaches (band), Canadian rock band
• Beaches (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 1988 film
• "The Beach" (song), a 2003 song by the duo Miss Kittin & The Hacker
• Beach (song), a song by San Cisco

People

• Adam Beach (born 1972), Canadian actor
• Alfred Ely Beach (1826–1896), inventor and publisher
• Allen C. Beach (1825–1918), New York politician
• Amy Beach (1867–1944), American composer, also known as Mrs. H.H.A. Beach
• Bill Beach (jazz musician) (born 1953), American jazz musician
• Bill Beach (rockabilly musician) (born 1932), American musician
• Bill Beach (rower) (1850–1935), Australian sculler
• Carmi W. Beach (1841–1888), American politician in Wisconsin
• Charles L. Beach (1866–1933), president of the University of Connecticut
• David Nelson Beach (1848–1926), American theologian
• Edward L. Beach Jr. (1918–2002), U.S. Navy submarine commander and author
• Fred Beach (1897–1981), NFL footballer with Los Angeles Buccaneers
• George Beach (politician) (1817–?), New York politician
• George Beach (1926–2016), Canadian-born ice hockey player
• Harlan Page Beach (1854–1933), American missionary, brother of David Nelson Beach
• Jessie G. Beach (1887–1954), American paleontologist and museum aide
• John Robert Beach (1871-1954), American farmer and politician
• Mallory Beach (1999-2019), American teenager killed in a boating accident by a member of the Murdaugh family
• Michael Beach (born 1963), American actor
• Moses Yale Beach (1800–1868), American inventor and publisher
• Nelson J. Beach (1800–1876), New York politician
• Ralph H. Beach, co-inventor of the Edison-Beach railcar
• Rex Beach (1877–1949), American author
• Steven Beach (born 1956), American psychologist
• Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), editor and bookseller
• Walter Beach (born 1933), American football player
• William Beach (disambiguation), several people:

• William Beach (1783–1856), British politician
• William Beach (American politician) (c. 1815–1860), American politician
• William Beach (economist), commissioner of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• William Dorrance Beach (1856–1932), American army officer
• William Henry Beach (1871–1952), British Army officer

• Zenas Beach (1825–1898), Wisconsin politician

Other uses

• California State University, Long Beach, often colloquially referred to as "The Beach"
  • The Long Beach State athletic program, officially branded as "The Beach" since 2020–21
• Beaching (nautical), to lay a vessel ashore or ground it deliberately
• Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH), an Australian Department of Health system for collecting data from general practice
• Cetacean stranding, when a whale beaches itself
• Wader, also known as beach bird

See also

• Beech (disambiguation)
• On the Beach (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Beach