Bean or Beans is a given name, Scottish surname and nickname.

• Sean Bean (born 1959), English actor
• Orson Bean (1928–2020), American actor
• Shoshana Bean (born 1977), American stage actress, singer and songwriter

• Andy Bean (golfer) (1953–2023), American golfer
• Billy Bean (1964–2024), American baseball player
• Colter Bean (born 1977), American baseball player
• George Bean (cricketer) (1864–1923), English cricketer
• Jake Bean (born 1998), Canadian hockey player
• Jason Bean (American football) (born 1999), American football player
• Justin Bean (born 1996), American basketball player
• Joe Bean (1874–1961), American baseball player
• Marcus Bean (born 1984), English footballer
• Scott Bean (born 1976), Zimbabwean cricketer

• James Bean (1933–2013), American politician
• Jason Bean (politician) American politician, Missouri senator
• John Bean (politician) (1927–2021), British far-right-wing figure
• Joshua Bean (c.1818–1852), American politician
• Melissa Bean (born 1962), American politician
• Samuel C. Bean (c.1819–1870), Wisconsin politician

• Alan Bean (1932–2018), NASA astronaut from the Apollo era
• Barton Appler Bean (1860–1947), American ichthyologist, brother of Tarleton Hoffman Bean
• Charles Bean (1879–1968), Australian historian
• Charlie Bean (born 1953), British economist
• Tarleton Hoffman Bean (1846–1916), American ichthyologist, brother of Barton Appler Bean
• William Bennett Bean (1909–1989), American medical historian and teacher
• William Jackson Bean (1863–1947), botanist

• Anne Bean (born 1950), British installation and performance artist
• Bennett Bean (born 1941), American ceramics artist
• George "G. T." Bean, of Bean Brothers, Australian businessman
• Gerlin Bean (born 1940), Jamaican community worker
• Hugh Bean (1929–2003), English violinist
• Jazmin Bean (born 2003), English singer, songwriter, and makeup artist
• Joel Bean (1825–1914), American Quaker
• John Bean (cinematographer) (1963–2011), Australian cinematographer
• John William Bean (1824–1882), British criminal who attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria
• Jonathan Bean (born 1964), English cricketer
• Jonathan Bean (born 1979), American children's book illustrator
• Laura Schiff Bean, American artist
• Louis H. Bean (1896–1994), American economic and political analyst
• Maurice Darrow Bean (1928–2009), American diplomat
• Mollie Bean, soldier for the Confederate Army
• Roy Bean (c. 1825–1903), Wild West figure
• Sawney Bean, notorious clan leader of 16th-century Scotland
• Terry "Harmonica" Bean (born 1961), American blues harmonicist, guitarist and songwriter.
• Theodora Bean (1871–1926), American suffragist and journalist
• William ("W. H.") Bean, of Bean Brothers, Australian businessman

• Ansonbean (born 2000), Hong Kong singer and actor
• Coleman Hawkins (1904–1969), American jazz saxophonist, known as "Bean"
• Beans Reardon (1897–1984), American baseball umpire
• Gene "Bean" Baxter, radio host of the Kevin and Bean show

• Mr. Bean (character), main character from the eponymous British sitcom played by Rowan Atkinson
  • Bean (film), a feature film based on the above sitcom
• Bean (Enderverse), a character in the Ender's Game series of books
• Bean the Dynamite, from Sonic the Hedgehog
• Hannibal Roy Bean, from Xiaolin Showdown
• Bean played by Alan Arkin in the 1974 film, Freebie and The Bean
• Beans (Looney Tunes), a black and white Looney Tunes character
• the title character of Baron Bean, a syndicated newspaper comic strip
• Benjamin "Beans" Baxter, in the American television series The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
• Bernard "Beans" Aranguren, a recurring character in the American television series Even Stevens
• Bean Bradley, in the video game MySims
• Bean, the main character in the animated series Disenchantment (TV series)
• Jack "Killer" Bean, the protagonist of Killer Bean Forever, voiced by Vegas J. Jenkins (2009 movie) and Jeff Lew (2020 series)
• Bean, in the children's book series Ivy and Bean
• Clarice Bean, in the Clarice Bean series of children's books
• Franklin Bean, main antagonist of Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Beans, in the horror video game Baldi's Basics
• Beans, creatures from Dumb Ways to Die.

• Justice Bean (disambiguation)
• Beane (surname)