Beale
Beale is an English surname (family name or last name). At the time of the British Census of 1881 [2], 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:
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- William Beale (1784–1854), British composer
- as given name
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 movie 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:
- Bobby Beale, Cindy Beale, Elizabeth Beale, Ian Beale, Jane Beale, Kathy Beale, Kenny Beale, Laura Beale, Lou Beale, Lucy Beale, Melanie Beale, Pat Beale, Pauline Beale, Pete Beale, Peter Beale, Steven Beale
See also
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