Beatty
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Beatty is a surname of Scottish or Irish ancestry. In the Scottish case, it is derived from the name Bartholomew, which was often shortened to Bate. Male descendants were then often called Beatty, or similar derivations like Beattie or Beatey. The name Beatty also arose in Ireland from Betagh, a surname meaning hospitaller. A majority of people named Beatty or Beattie in Ireland are the descendants of Scots who came over in the seventeenth century, and live in northeast Ulster. The remainder live much further south.
The surname Beatty can refer to:
- Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, collector of Chinese and Japanese art
- Beatty, fictional character from thenovel Fahrenheit 451
- Bruce W. Beatty
- Clyde Beatty, American trainer of wild animals and circus performer
- David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, British Admiral at the Battle of Jutland
- David Beatty (politician)
- David R. Beatty
- Edward Wentworth Beatty
- Jim Beatty
- Jerome Beatty, Jr., children's author of the Matthew Looney books
- John Beatty, American Civil War general
- John Beatty (delegate)
- John Beatty (illustrator)
- Joyce Beatty
- Linda Beatty
- Maria Beatty
- Mike Beatty
- Ned Beatty, American actor
- Paul Beatty
- Perrin Beatty
- Robert Beatty
- Samuel Beatty, American Civil War general
- Scott Beatty
- Terry Beatty
- Warren Beatty, the American actor
- William Beatty
- William Beatty (Ontario politician)
- William H. Beatty
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