Bea is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Bea Alonzo (born 1987), Filipina actress and singer
Beatrice Arthur (1922–2009), American actress
Bea Ballard, British television producer
Bea Barrett (1916–2002), American amateur golfer
Bea Benaderet (1906–1968), American actress of the big band era
Bea Bielik (born 1980), American tennis player
Bea Binene (born 1997), Filipina actress
Bea Booze (1920–1975), American R&B and jazz singer
Bea Chester, American baseball player
Bea Feitler (1938–1982), Brazilian-born art-director
Bea Fiedler (born 1957), German topless model
Bea Firth (died 2008), Canadian politician
Béa Gonzalez, Spanish-Canadian novelist
Gertrude Himmelfarb (born 1922), also known as Bea Kristol, American historian
Beatrice Lillie (1894–1989), Canadian actress
Bea Maddock (born 1934), Australian artist
Bea Miles (1902–1973), Australian eccentric
Bea Nettles (born 1946), art photographer and author
Bea Nicolas, 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 (born 1917), American singer
Bea Wyler, Swiss-German rabbi