Beatrice

Name variants

Alternate versions of the name include

Beata (Polish, Swedish)

Beáta (Hungarian)

Beate (German, Norwegian)

Béatraís (Irish)

Beatrica (Croatian, Slovak)

Beatriçe (Albanian)

Béatrice (French)

Beatrice (Italian)

Beatričė (Lithuanian)

Beatrijs (Dutch)

Beatrika (Slovene)

Beatrice, Beatrix (Indonesian)

Βεατρίκη (Veatriki) (Greek)

Beatris (English)

Beatrisa (Latvian)

Beatrise (Latvian)

Beatriss (English)

Beatriu (Catalan)

Beatrix (Latin)

Béatrix (French)

Beatriz (Galician, Portuguese, Spanish)

Beatrycze (Polish)

Beitris (Scottish Gaelic)

Betrys (Welsh)

Short forms include

Beatrice

Artists and entertainers

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

Athletes

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 Blore, first woman to drive a car up the Great Orme

Beatrice Bofia (born 1984), Cameroonian American basketball player

Beatrice Brunnbauer (born 1992), Austrian alpine skier

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

Politicians and public servants

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

Religious figures

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

Scientists, engineers and academics

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 Lindsay (1858–1917), English zoologist, writer, and editor

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

Aristocrats

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 (fl. 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

Beatrice von Hardenberg (1947–2020), German aristocrat and magazine editor

Miscellaneous

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 Barth (1877–1966), New Zealand piano teacher

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

Fictional characters

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.