Bean (disambiguation)
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Bean may refer to:
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Food:
- Bean, a large seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae.
- Baked beans, a popular tinned food.
- Jelly bean, a bean-shaped sweet.
People:
- Alan Bean, NASA astronaut from the Apollo era
- Alexander "Sawney" Bean, Scotsman of legend
- Andy Bean, American golfer
- Anne Bean, British installation and performance artist
- Bennett Bean, American ceramics artist
- Billy Bean, American baseball player
- Charles Bean, Australian historian
- Charlie Bean, British economist
- Colin Bean, English actor
- Colter Bean, American baseball player
- George Bean, English cricketer
- Jackie Bean, British model
- Joel Bean, American Quaker
- John Bean, British far-right figure
- Joshua Bean, American politician
- Justin Bean, American musician
- Marcus Bean, English footballer
- Melissa Bean, American politician
- Mollie Bean, soldier for the Confederate Army
- Orson Bean, American actor
- Ron Bean, American politician
- Roy Bean, Wild West figure
- Sean Bean, English actor
- Tarleton Hoffman Bean (1846–1916), American ichthyologist
- Travis Bean, American luthier
- William & Lydia Bean
- William Bennett Bean, American medical historian and teacher
- Beans, rap singer who has released music on Warp Records.
- Coleman Hawkins (nickname), Jazz musician.
Fictional characters:
- Mr. Bean, a character played by Rowan Atkinson in the British television programme and film.
- Bean (1997 film), a feature film based on the above programme.
- Julian Delphiki a.k.a Bean, a character in the Ender's Game series of books.
- Bean the Dynamite from Sonic the Hedgehog.
- Hannibal Roy Bean, fictional Bean from Xiaolin Showdown.
- Bean played by Alan Arkin in the 1974 film, Freebie and The Bean.
- Beans a black and white Looney Tunes character.
Places:
Companies:
- Bean Cars Ltd, an early British car company.
- L. L. Bean, an Eastern U.S. retail store offering outdoor gear and apparel.
- A child's shopping cart attachment in the form of a car.
Slang/jargon:
- Slang for coffee, as in "I need to get some bean."
- Slang for $500
- Slang for the drug MDMA in pill form.
- A type of baseball pitch — see beanball.
- Slang for the clitoris, as in "to flick the bean".
- Slang for hitting someone on the head with a thrown object, as in to "bean someone".
Programming and Computers:
- A Java class conforming to the JavaBeans™ API specification.
- A Java server-side object conforming to the Enterprise JavaBean specification in the Java EE.
Others:
- "The Bean," the common nickname of Cloud Gate, a sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park.
