Bean (name)
family name
Bean or Beans is a given name, Scottish surname and nickname.
People with surname Bean
Actors
Sean Bean (born 1959), English actor
Orson Bean (1928–2020), American actor
Shoshana Bean (born 1977), American stage actress, singer and songwriter
Athletes
Andy Bean (golfer) (1953–2023), American golfer
Billy Bean (1964–2024), American baseball player
Colter Bean (born 1977), American baseball player
George Bean (cricketer) (1864–1923), English cricketer
Jake Bean (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey player
Jason Bean (American football) (born 1999), American football player
Justin Bean (born 1996), American basketball player
Joe Bean (1874–1961), American baseball player
Marcus Bean (born 1984), English footballer
Scott Bean (born 1976), Zimbabwean cricketer
Politicians
James Bean (1933–2013), American politician
Jason Bean (politician) American politician, Missouri senator
John Bean (politician) (1927–2021), British far-right-wing figure
Joshua Bean (c.1818–1852), American politician
Melissa Bean (born 1962), American politician
Samuel C. Bean (c.1819–1870), Wisconsin politician
Scientists
Alan Bean (1932–2018), NASA astronaut from the Apollo era
Barton Appler Bean (1860–1947), American ichthyologist, brother of Tarleton Hoffman Bean
Charles Bean (1879–1968), Australian historian
Charlie Bean (born 1953), British economist
Tarleton Hoffman Bean (1846–1916), American ichthyologist, brother of Barton Appler Bean
William Bennett Bean (1909–1989), American medical historian and teacher
William Jackson Bean (1863–1947), botanist
Other people
Anne Bean (born 1950), British installation and performance artist
Bennett Bean (born 1941), American ceramics artist
George "G. T." Bean, of Bean Brothers, Australian businessman
Gerlin Bean (1940–2025), Jamaican community worker
Hugh Bean (1929–2003), English violinist
Isabelle Bean (1862 – 1939), an Australian nurse, theosophist and feminist
Jazmin Bean (born 2003), English singer, songwriter, and makeup artist
Joel Bean (1825–1914), American Quaker
John Bean (cinematographer) (1963–2011), Australian cinematographer
John William Bean (1824–1882), British criminal who attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria
Jonathan Bean (cricketer) (born 1964), English cricketer
Jonathan Bean (born 1979), American children's book illustrator
Laura Schiff Bean, American artist
Louis H. Bean (1896–1994), American economic and political analyst
Maurice Darrow Bean (1928–2009), American diplomat
Mollie Bean, soldier for the Confederate Army
Roy Bean (c. 1825–1903), Wild West figure
Sawney Bean, notorious clan leader of 16th-century Scotland
Terry "Harmonica" Bean (born 1961), American blues harmonicist, guitarist and songwriter.
Theodora Bean (1871–1926), American suffragist and journalist
William ("W. H.") Bean, of Bean Brothers, Australian businessman
People nicknamed Bean or Beans
Ansonbean (born 2000), Hong Kong singer and actor
Coleman Hawkins (1904–1969), American jazz saxophonist, known as "Bean"
Beans Reardon (1897–1984), American baseball umpire
Gene "Bean" Baxter, radio host of the Kevin and Bean show
Fictional characters
Mr. Bean (character), main character from the eponymous British sitcom played by Rowan Atkinson
Bean (film), a feature film based on the above sitcom
Bean (Enderverse), a character in the Ender's Game series of books
Bean the Dynamite, from Sonic the Hedgehog
Hannibal Roy Bean, from Xiaolin Showdown
Bean played by Alan Arkin in the 1974 film, Freebie and The Bean
Beans (Looney Tunes), a black and white Looney Tunes character
the title character of Baron Bean, a syndicated newspaper comic strip
Benjamin "Beans" Baxter, in the American television series The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
Bernard "Beans" Aranguren, a recurring character in the American television series Even Stevens
Bean Bradley, in the video game MySims
Bean, the main character in the animated series Disenchantment (TV series)
Isaac Bean, a Season 4 contestant in Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman
Jack "Killer" Bean, the protagonist of Killer Bean Forever, voiced by Vegas J. Jenkins (2009 movie) and Jeff Lew (2020 series)
Bean, in the children's book series Ivy and Bean
Clarice Bean, in the Clarice Bean series of children's books
Franklin Bean, main antagonist of Fantastic Mr.
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