Bea is a feminine given name, often short for Beatrice, Beatrix or Beatriz. 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
Beabadoobee (born 2000), Filipino-British singer
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
Beatrice "Bea" Gomez (born 1995), Filipina beauty queen and model
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
Bea Lindhorst (born 1985), German politician
Bea Maddock (1934–2016), Australian artist
Bea Mettler (born 1978), Swiss footballer
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
Fictional characters
Bea (Dennis the Menace), in the British comic strip Dennis the Menace