Beatrice (given name)

Alternate versions of the name include

• Beata (Polish, Swedish)
• Beáta (Hungarian)
• Beate (German, Norwegian)
• Béatraís (Irish)
• Beatrica (Croatian, Slovakian)
• Beatriçe (Albanian)
• Béatrice (French)
• Beatrice (Italian)
• Beatričė (Lithuanian)
• Beatrijs (Dutch)
• Beatrika (Slovene)
• Beatrice, Beatrix (Indonesian)
• Βεατρίκη (Veatriki) (Greek)
• Beatris (English)
• Beatrisa (Latvian)
• Beatrise (Latvian)
• Beatričė (Lithuanian)
• Beatriss (English)
• Beatriu (Catalan)
• Beatrix (Latin)
• Béatrix (French)
• Beatriz (Galician, Portuguese, Spanish)
• Beatrycze (Polish)
• Beitris (Scottish Gaelic)
• Betrys (Welsh)

Short forms include

• Bea (Italian, Dutch, English, German, Galician, Spanish, Catalan)
• Béa (French){{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
• Beah (English){{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
• Beasie (English)
• Beat (English){{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
• Beatie (English){{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
• Beato (English){{citation needed|date=July 2016}}
• Bee (English)
• Betty (Spanish)
• Bia (Portuguese)
• Bice (Italian){{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
• Trix (Dutch, English)
• Trixi (English, German)
• Trixie (English)
• Trixy (English)
• Tris (English)

• Beatrice Alda (born 1961), American actress and filmmaker
• Bea Arthur (1922–2009), American actress and comedian
• Mademoiselle Beatrice, stage name of Marie Beatrice Binda (1839–1878), Italian-born actress in England
• Beatrice Colen (1948–1999), American actress
• Beatrice Irwin (1877-1953) actress, poet, designer
• Bebe Neuwirth (born 1958), American actress
• Beatrice Roberts (1905–1970), American actress
• Beatrice Rosen (born 1984), French-American actress
• Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865–1940), born Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner, English actress
• Beatrice Winde (1924–2004), American actress

• Beatrice Afflerbach (1920–2003), Swiss graphic designer
• Beatrice Winn Berlin (1922–1999), American painter, printmaker, teacher
• Beatrice Gjertsen Bessesen (1886–1935), American operatic soprano
• Beatrice Bligh (1916–1973), Australian gardener
• Beatritz de Dia ({{fl.|late 12th century}}), Provençal poet and musician
• Beatrice Egli (born 1988), Swiss pop and Schlager singer
• Beatrice Hastings, pen-name of English writer, poet and literary critic Emily Alice Haigh (1879–1943), lover of Modigliani
• Beatrice Partridge (1866–1963), English-born New Zealand painter
• Béatrice Poulot (born 1968), French singer from Réunion
• Beatrice Redpath (1886–1937), Canadian poet, short story writer
• Beatrice (singer), singer in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999
• Beatrice Laus (born 2000), Filipino-British singer-songwriter and guitarist
• Beatrice Wood (1893–1998), American artist and studio potter

• Beatrice Allard (born 1930), former pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1949 season
• Beatrice Armstrong (1894–1981), British diver
• Béatrice Berthet, Swiss Paralympic skier
• Beatrice Bofia (born 1984), Cameroonian American basketball player
• Beatrice Bürki (born 1965), Swiss diver
• Beatrice Callegari (born 1991), Italian synchronised swimmer
• Beatrice Capra (born 1992), American tennis player
• Beatrice Câșlaru (born 1975), Romanian former swimmer
• Beatrice Chebet (born 2000), Kenyan long-distance runner
• Beatrice Chepkoech (born 1991), Kenyan long-distance runner
• Beatrice Dömeland (born 1973), German volleyball player
• Beatrice Domond (born 1995), regular-footed American skateboarder
• Beatrice Gärds (born 1997), Swedish footballer
• Beatrice Faumuina (born 1974), New Zealand world champion discus thrower
• Beatrice Frei, Swiss curler
• Beatrice Goad (born 1997), Australian footballer
• Beatrice Grasso (born 1995), Italian canoeist
• Béatrice Hess (born 1961), French Paralympic swimmer
• Beatrice Hill-Lowe (1869–1951), Irish archer
• Beatrice Huștiu (born 1956), Romanian competitive figure skater
• Beatrice Jepchumba (born 1983), Kenyan long-distance runner
• Beatrice Lanza (born 1982), Italian triathlete
• Beatrice Lungu (born 1956), Zambian sprinter
• Beatrice Masilingi (born 2003), Namibian sprinter
• Beatrice Merlo (born 1999), Italian professional footballer
• Beatrice Mompremier (born 1996), American basketball player
• Béatrice Mouthon (born 1966), French triathlete
• Beatrice Parrocchiale (born 1995), Italian volleyball player
• Beatričė Rožinskaitė (born 1992), Lithuanian competitive figure skater
• Beatrice Scalvedi (born 1995), Swiss alpine skier
• Beatrice Shilling (1909-1990), British aeronautical engineer, motorcycle racer and sports car racer
• Beatrice Tornatore (born 1999), Italian group rhythmic gymnast
• Beatrice Utondu (born 1969), Nigerian former sprinter
• Beatrice Vio (born 1997), better known as Bebe Vio, Italian wheelchair fencer
• Beatrice Wallin (born 1999), Swedish professional golfer

• Beatrice Aitchison (1908–1997), Director of Transportation Research in the Bureau of Transportation of the United States Postal Service
• Beatrice Anna Lewis (suffragette) (1889–1976), British suffragette, member of the militant Women's Social and Political Union.
• Béatrice Bellamy (born 1966), French politician
• Beatrice Hall (1921–2018), American politician
• Beatrice Lorenzin (born 1971) Italian politician
• Beatrice Nkatha (1957–2024), Kenyan politician
• Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota (1919–2002), British Government minister and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
• Beatrice Trew (1897–1976), Canadian socialist politician
• Beatrice Wishart (born 1955), British politician
• Beatrice Wright (1910–2003), American-born British politician

• Beatrix or Beatrice ({{fl.|4th century}}), Christian martyr; see Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix
• Saint Beatrice d'Este (1191–1226), Italian Roman Catholic saint
• Beatrice of Silva (1424–1492), Portuguese nun and saint
• Blessed Beatrice of Nazareth (1200–1268), Flemish nun
• Blessed Beatrice of Ornacieux (ca. 1240–1306/1309), French nun and religious leader

• Beatrice Gelber, American psychologist
• Beatrix Havergal (1901-1980), English horticulturist
• Beatrice Hicks (1919-1979), American engineer
• Beatrice M. Hinkle (1874–1953), American pioneering feminist, psychoanalyst and writer
• Beatriz Ghirelli (1915-1992), Argentinian engineer, pioneer of standardisation practices.
• Beatrice Krauss (1903–1998), American botanist
• Beatrice Rivière, French applied mathematician
• Beatrice Shilling (1909–1990), British aeronautical engineer and motorcyclist
• Beatrice Tinsley (1941–1981), New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist
• Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer

• Beatrice of Albon (1161–1228), French Countess of Albon and Dauphine of Viennois
• Beatrice of England (1242–1275), daughter of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence
• Beatrice of Naples ({{floruit|1476–1500}}), queen of Hungary, also known as Beatrix of Aragon
• Beatrice of Portugal (disambiguation)
• Beatrice of Savoy (disambiguation)
• Princess Beatrice (disambiguation)
• Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer (1903–1972), British life peer
• Beatrice Cenci (1577–1599), Italian noblewoman who, with other members of her family, murdered her rapist father
• Beatrice Borromeo (1985), Italian noblewoman and journalist who is currently married to Pierre Casiraghi.

• Beatrice Agyeman Abbey, Ghanaian CEO of Media General
• Beatrice Allen (born 1950), vice president of the Gambia National Olympic Committee since 2009 and a member of the International Olympic Committee starting in 2006
• Beatrice Beeby (1904–1991), New Zealand educator
• Béatrice Bulteau, French equine artist
• Beatrice Collenette (1899–2001), Guernsey-born American dancer and dance educator
• Beatrice Dickson (1852–1941), Swedish philanthropist and temperance activist
• Beatrice Green (1894–1927), Welsh labour activist
• Beatrice Laura Goff (1903–1998), American archaeologist and biblical scholar
• Beatrice McCartney, Paul McCartney's daughter with Heather Mills
• Beatrice Monti della Corte, Italian art and literature philanthropist, wife of Gregor von Rezzori
• Beatrice Portinari (1265–1290), great love and muse of poet Dante Alighieri
• Beatrix de Rijk (1883–1958), first Dutch woman pilot
• Beatrix de Rijke (1421–1468), Dutch foundling in Dordrecht in 1421.
• Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), author of children's books
• Beatrice Warde (1900–1969), American expert on typography

• Beatrice (inspired by Beatrice Portinari), the guide through Paradise in Dante's Divine Comedy.
• Beatrice, in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
• Beatrice Baudelaire, in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
• Beatrice Carbone, one of the cast of characters in A View from the Bridge, a play by Arthur Miller.
• Bia Gunderson, a young female Spix's Macaw character in the 2014 animatied movie Rio 2.
• Beatrice Hotchkiss, in the Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower and Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull.
• Beatrice "Tris" Prior, the main character in the Divergent series of books and movies.
• Beatrice Rappaccini, title character of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter".
• Beatrice Rumfoord, in Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan.
• Beatrice Severn, in Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana.
• Beatrice, a main character in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant.
• Beatrice, the Dream Demon in the Sony PlayStation roleplaying game Wild Arms 3.
• Beatrice, the Endless and Golden Witch in Umineko no Naku Koro ni.
• Beatrice, in the manga Gunslinger Girl.
• Beatrice (Re:Zero), a character in the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World.
• Beatrice Grimaldi, a princess in the television series Gossip Girl.
• Beatrice, a bluebird in the 2014 animated television miniseries Over the Garden Wall.
• Beatrice "The Bear" Leep, from Carl Hiaasen's 2002 novel Hoot and played by Brie Larson in its 2006 film adaptation.
• Beatrice Scarlet, heroine of the novels Scarlet Widow and The Coven by Graham Masterton.
• Beezus "Beezus" Quimby, character in the Ramona series by Beverly Cleary.
• Beatrice "Bea" Santello, a major character in the 2017 adventure game Night in the Woods.
• Beatrice "Aunt Bee" Taylor, a major character from the 1960s American sitcom The Andy Griffith Show.
• Beatrice "Trixie" Espinoza, secondary character in the TV/streaming series Lucifer.
• Trixie Lulamoon, a character in the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• Trixie Tang, a character in the animated series The Fairly OddParents.
• Sister Beatrice, love interest and nun in the series Warrior Nun.
• Beatrice de Rune, a female character in the game series A Plague Tale.

• "Beatrijs", a 13th-century Dutch poem about a nun with this name
• Beatrix
• Beatriz
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• [http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=beatrice Beatrice at Behindthename.com]
• [http://search.ancestry.com/oldsearch/SurnameLinks.aspx?ln=Beatrice Beatrice at Ancestry.com]

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