Bean (disambiguation)

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A bean is a large seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, including the seed of the common bean. The word may refer to:

• Bean (name), a surname, forename and nickname

Business

• Bean Cars, an early British car company
• BEAN (charity), a young professional volunteering, charity and social group
• L.L.Bean, an American company offering outdoor gear and apparel

Computing

• Bean (computing), an alternative way to reference JavaBeans
• Bean (word processor), a free program for Mac OS X
• JavaBeans, reusable software components used in Java programming
• NetBeans, an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing primarily with Java, but also with other languages, in particular PHP, C/C++, and HTML5

Places

• Bean, Kent, a village in north Kent in England
• Bean, California, a former settlement in California, United States
• Bean River, a river in New Hampshire, United States

Other

• "The Bean", common nickname of Cloud Gate, sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park
• "The Bean", a nickname for Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., short for "Beantown"
• Mr. Bean, a British television character and series (1990–1995)
  • Bean (film), a 1997 film, starring Rowan Atkinson and based on the television character and series
• Bean (Ender's Game), a character in Ender's Game and the major character in the Ender's Shadow series

See also

• Baked Beans (TV Series), an American animated show
• Been (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Bean"
• All pages beginning with "Bean"
• Wikipedia:Beans, an essay