Bean may refer to:

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Food

• Bean, a large seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae
• Pork and beans is a dish which has some similarities with baked beans.
• Common bean, discussing bean varieties
• Baked beans, a popular canned food
• Jelly bean, a bean-shaped sweet
• Coffee bean, the beans used to brew coffee

People

Surname

• Alan Bean, NASA astronaut from the Apollo era
• 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
• Joel Bean, American Quaker
• John Bean, British far-right figure
• Joshua Bean, American politician
• Marcus Bean, English footballer
• Maurice Darrow Bean
• 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
• Sawney Bean, notorious clan leader of 16th Century Scotland
• Tarleton Hoffman Bean (1846–1916), American ichthyologist
• Travis Bean, American luthier
• William Bennett Bean, American medical historian and teacher

Forename

• Beans Balawi, English actor
• Beans (rapper), rap singer who has released music on Warp Records

Nickname

• Coleman Hawkins, 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 program
  • Mr. Bean's Holiday, a second feature film starring Atkinson as Bean
  • Mr. Bean (animated TV series)
• Bean (Enderverse), 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 (Looney Tunes), a black and white Looney Tunes character
• Benjamin "Beans" Baxter, a character in the American television series, The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
• Bernard "Beans" Aranguren, a character in Even Stevens

Places

• Bean, Kent, a village in north Kent, England
• The Bean River in New Hampshire, United States

Companies

• Bean Cars, an early British car company
• L. L. Bean, a retail store in the eastern United States, 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
• Beanball, a type of baseball pitch
• 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 (programming language) class conforming to the JavaBean API specification
• A Java server-side object conforming to the Enterprise JavaBean specification in the Java EE

Other uses

• Beans (song), an unreleased demo from the American grunge band Nirvana
• Pork and Beans, a song by Weezer
• "The Bean", the common nickname of Cloud Gate, a sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park
• "Beans", the name of a Super Smash Bros. Brawl machinima collaboration movie between Smashtasm, Brawlgasm, and Wolf's Retarded Mission.

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