Bea is a feminine given name, often short for Beatrice. Notable people with the name include:

• Bea Alonzo (born 1987), Filipina actress and singer
• Bea Arthur (1922–2009), American actress
• Bea Ballard (born 1959), British television producer
• Bea Barrett (1916–2002), American amateur golfer
• Bea Benaderet (1906–1968), American actress
• Bea Bielik (born 1980), American tennis player
• Bea Binene (born 1997), Filipina actress and singer
• Bea Booze (1912–1986), American R&B and jazz singer
• Bea Chester (born c. 1921), American baseball player
• Bea Feitler (1938–1982), Brazilian-born art-director
• Bea Firth (1946–2008), Canadian politician
• Bea Gaddy (1933–2001), American humanitarian
• Béa Gonzalez (born 1962), Spanish-Canadian novelist
• Bea Gorton (1946–2020), American college basketball coach
• Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019), also known as Bea Kristol, American historian
• Beatrice Lillie (1894–1989), Canadian actress
• Beatrice "Bea" Gomez (born 1995), Filipina beauty queen and model
• Bea Maddock (1934–2016), Australian artist
• Bea Miles (1902–1973), Australian eccentric
• Bea Miller (born 1999), American singer
• Bea Nettles (born 1946), art photographer and author
• Bea Nicolas (born 1994), Filipina actress
• Bea Palya (born 1976), Hungarian folk singer
• Bea Santiago (born 1990), Filipina actress and beauty queen of Miss Earth 2017
• Bea Saw (born 1985), Filipina actress
• Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz (1898–1969), also known as Bea Schwartz, Dutch phytopathologist
• Bea Segura (born 1975), Spanish actress
• Bea Wain (1917–2017), American singer
• Bea Wyler (born 1951), Swiss-German rabbi

• Bea (Dennis the Menace), in the British comic strip Dennis the Menace
• Bea, one of the Gym Leaders in Pokémon Sword and Shield
• Bea Goldfishberg, from the American animated television series Fish Hooks
• Beatrice "Bea" Santello, from the video game Night in the Woods
• Bea Spells-a-Lot, a Lalaloopsy doll and character in the TV series

• Beatrice (disambiguation)
• Béatrice
• Beatrix
• Beatriz