Beale
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| Beale | |
|---|---|
| Family name | |
| Meaning | "handsome man"; "fair, beautiful"; "son of Bel"; "bee-hill" |
| Region of origin | England |
| Language(s) of origin | Old French, Old English (Norman or Anglo-Saxon) |
| Related names | Beal |
| Footnotes: Frequency Comparisons: [1] | |
Beale is an English surname (family name or last name). At the time of the British Census of 1881,[1] its relative frequency was highest in Dorset (6.3 times the British average), followed by Huntingdonshire, Hampshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Kent and Surrey.
The name Beale may refer to:
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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
- 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 (Australian 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
- William Beale (1784–1854), British composer
- as given name
- Beale M. Schmucker (1827–1888), American Lutheran leader and liturgical scholar
Bielchovsky
In Britain, in some cases, the name Beale is of a Polish and German root, being Anglicized from, Bielchovsky. This line is of German/Polish-Jewish (Ashkenazi) origin.
Many of this line came into Britain before 1940.
Characters
- Howard Beale, played by Peter Finch in the film Network
- Livia Beale, played by Moon Bloodgood in the TV series Journeyman
- Beale family, the original and longest serving family in the BBC soap opera EastEnders:
- Chloe Beale, played by Brittany Snow in the film Pitch Perfect
See also
- Beal (disambiguation)
- Beall, a surname
- Beel (disambiguation)
- Bheel (disambiguation)
- Bil (disambiguation)
Notes
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