Bea (given name)

Betty but also 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
Bea Booze (1912–1986), American R&B and jazz singer
Bea Chester, 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
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
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

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