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Region of origin
  
England

Related names
  
Beal

Meaning
  
"handsome man"; "fair, beautiful"; "son of Bel"; "bee-hill"

Language(s) of origin
  
Old French, Old English (Norman or Anglo-Saxon)

Beale is an English surname. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its relative frequency was highest in Dorset (6.3 times the British average), followed by Huntingdonshire, Hampshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Kent and Surrey.

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Map of Beale AFB, CA, USA

The name Beale may refer to:

People

  • Anthony Beale (born 1967), American politician, alderman in Chicago
  • Charles Lewis Beale (1824–1900), member of U.S. House of Representatives from New York
  • Daniel Beale (1759–1842), Scottish merchant, brother of Thomas Beale
  • Dorothea Beale (1831–1906), English teacher, founder of St. Hilda's College, Oxford
  • Edith Bouvier Beale (1917–2002), American socialite, first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
  • Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893), American frontiersman and diplomat
  • Fleur Beale (born 1945), New Zealand teenage fiction writer best known for her novel I am not Esther
  • Gregory Beale (born 1949), Reformed Christian theologian and seminary professor
  • Howard Beale (politician) (1898–1983), Australian politician and Ambassador to the United States
  • Howard K. Beale (1899–1959), American historian and author
  • Inga Beale, CEO of Lloyd's of London
  • Jack Beale (1917–2006), Australian politician
  • James Beale (1835–1883), also known as Africanus Horton, Sierra Leonean writer and folklorist
  • John Elmes Beale (1847–1928), English politician, three times Mayor of Bournemouth and founder of its largest department store, Beales
  • Gerard Beale, New Zealand rugby league player
  • Joseph Henry Beale, Harvard Law professor and conflict of laws scholar
  • Julian Beale (born 1934), Australian politician
  • Kurtley Beale (born 1989), Australian rugby union player
  • Lionel Smith Beale (1828–1906), British medical doctor and professor at King's College London
  • Maria Taylor Beale (1849–1929), American author
  • Martin Beale (1928–1985), British pioneer of mathematical programming
  • Mary Beale (1633–1699), English portrait painter
  • Octavius Beale (1850–1930), Irish piano manufacturer and philanthropist
  • Richard L. T. Beale (1819–1893), American lawyer, Congressman from Virginia, and brigadier general in Confederate States Army
  • Simon Russell Beale (born 1961), British actor
  • Theodore Beale (born c.1968) American writer
  • Thomas Beale (c. 1775–1841), Scottish naturalist and opium speculator, brother of Daniel Beale
  • Thomas Chaye Beale (19th century), Scottish merchant, cousin of Daniel and Thomas Beale
  • Thomas Willert Beale (1828–1894), English writer, also wrote under the pseudonym Walter Maynard
  • William Beale (1784–1854), British composer

    • As given name

  • Beale M. Schmucker (1827–1888), American Lutheran leader and liturgical scholar

    • Characters

  • Howard Beale, played by Peter Finch in the film Network
  • Livia Beale, played by Moon Bloodgood in the TV series Journeyman
  • Beale family, a family in the BBC soap opera EastEnders:
  • Albert Beale, Bobby Beale, Cindy Beale, Elizabeth Beale, Harry Beale, Ian Beale, Jane Beale, Kathy Beale, Kenny Beale, Laura Beale, Lou Beale, Lucy Beale, Melanie Beale, Pete Beale, Peter Beale, Ronnie Beale, Steven Beale
  • Chloe Beale, played by Brittany Snow in the film Pitch Perfect

    • References

    Beale Wikipedia
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