# Bean (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 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
* 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 (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)
* 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. Fox
* Beans, in the horror video game Baldi's Basics
* Beans, creatures from Dumb Ways to Die.