Bevan is a name of Welsh origin, derived from ab Ifan meaning "son of

Evan Evan is a Welsh language, Welsh masculine given name, derived from ''Iefan'', a Welsh form of the name John (name), John. Similar names that share this origin include Euan, Ivan (name), Ivan, Ian, and Juan. "John" itself is derived from the ancie ...

" (Ifan being a variant of

Ieuan Ieuan is a masculine Welsh given name – one of several Welsh names derived from Latin Johannes or Ioannes and, therefore, analogous to the English language name John. Other Welsh names derived from Ioannes/Johannes or John include Ioan, Iwan, ...

, the Welsh equivalent of

John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

). Notable people with the name include:

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Bevan Congdon Bevan Ernest Congdon (11 February 1938 – 10 February 2018) was a New Zealand cricket all-rounder who played 61 Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals from 1965 to 1978, which included a two-year spell as captain. Captaincy Congdon was c ...

(1938–2018), New Zealand cricketer * Bevan Davies, American musician *

Bevan Docherty Bevan John Docherty (born 29 March 1977) is a triathlete from New Zealand, who won medals twice at the Olympic Games. Docherty attended Tauhara College, Taupō. Life Docherty and his sister Fiona grew up in Taupō, in the North Island of New ...

(born 1977), New Zealand triathlete * Bevan Dufty (born 1955), American politician * Bevan Eatts, Australian politician * Bevan French (born 1996), Australian rugby league footballer *

Bevan George Bevan Christopher George (born 22 March 1977 in Narrogin, Western Australia) is a field hockey defender from Australia. Field hockey National team George won a gold medal with the Australia national field hockey team (''The Kookaburras'') a ...

(born 1977), Australian hockey player *

Bevan Griggs Bevan Barry John Griggs (born 29 March 1978) is a New Zealand cricketer who played for Central Districts. In his 83 first-class cricket matches he has taken 245 dismissals for Central Districts, a CD record. Bevan also plays for United cricket ...

(born 1978), New Zealand cricketer * Bevan Hari (born 1975), New Zealand field hockey player * Bevan Kapisi (born 1981), Samoan footballer * Bevan Meredith (1927–2019), Australian Anglican archbishop of Papua New Guinea *

Bevan Rodd Bevan Rodd (born 26 August 2000) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Premiership Rugby club Sale Sharks. He represents England at international level after qualifying on ancestry grounds. Club career Born in Scotland ...

(born 2000), Scottish rugby union player *

Bevan Sharpless Bevan Percival Sharpless (August 2, 1904 – October 28, 1950) was an American astronomer, best known for his 1944 discovery that the orbit of Phobos (moon), Phobos was Orbital decay, decaying. Early life Sharpless was born to Ethel Mae Bevan and ...

(1904–1950), American astronomer *

Bevan Slattery Bevan Andrew Slattery is an Australian technology entrepreneur who has built a number of businesses that handles data and telecommunications. Early life Slattery grew up in Rockhampton, Queensland, where he attended Frenchville State School. H ...

, Australian technology entrepreneur * Bevan Spencer von Einem (born 1946), Australian child killer and suspected serial killer * Bevan Wilson (rugby union, born 1956), New Zealand rugby union international * Bevan Wilson (rugby, born 1927) (1927–2012), Australian rugby union international and rugby player

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Alan Bevan Alan Bevan is a piper and current pipe major of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band. Life Before joining the Simon Fraser University band in 1995, he was pipe major of the Grade 1 Abbotsford Police Pipe Band. Bevan graduated from Simon Fras ...

, Canadian bagpipe player *

Alonza Bevan Alonza George Bevan (born 24 October 1970) is an English musician who is the bassist for the English rock band Kula Shaker. In between Kula Shaker splitting in 1999 and reforming in 2004, Bevan played in a number of groups including Johnny Marr' ...

(born 1970), English bass player *

Aneurin Bevan Aneurin "Nye" Bevan Privy Council (United Kingdom), PC (; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician, noted for spearheading the creation of the British National Health Service during his t ...

(1897–1960), Welsh politician *

Arthur Bevan Arthur Bevan (c. 1687 – 6 March 1742), of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, was a Welsh lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1741. Bevan was the eldest surviving son of Zachary Bevan and his wife Sarah Bayly of Laug ...

(c. 1687–1742), Welsh lawyer and Member of Parliament *

Benjamin Bevan Benjamin Bevan (26 December 1773 — 2 July 1833) was a British civil engineer, noted for his proof of the equivalence of the elastic moduli of ice and water. He was a principal engineer on the Grand Junction Canal. Bevan was born on Boxing ...

(1773–1833), British civil engineer *

Bev Bevan Beverley Bevan (born 25 November 1944) is an English rock musician who was the drummer and one of the original members of the Move and Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). After the end of ELO in 1986, he founded ELO Part II. Bevan also was a drum ...

(born 1945), English drummer *

Bill Bevan William Arnold Bevan, Sr. (March 26, 1913 – August 26, 1975) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Minnesota and was a consensus selection at the guard position on the 1934 College Footba ...

(1913–1975), American football player and coach *

Billy Bevan Billy Bevan (born William Bevan Harris; 29 September 1887 – 26 November 1957) was an Australian-born vaudevillian who became an American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 American films from 1916 to 1952. He died just before new audie ...

(1887–1957), Australian film actor *

Brian Bevan Brian Eyrl Bevan (24 January 1924 – 3 June 1991), also known by the nickname of "Wing Wizard", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He became the only player ever to be inducted int ...

(1924–1991), Australian rugby player *

Bridget Bevan Bridget Bevan (née Vaughan; baptised 30 October 1698 – 11 December 1779), also known as Madam Bevan, was a Welsh educationalist and public benefactor. She was the chief supporter of Griffith Jones and his system of circulating schools. Lif ...

(1698–1779), Welsh philanthropist * Carl Bevan, British musician (1973–2024) * Christopher Bevan (born 1937), Rhodesian sailor * C. W. L. Bevan (1920–1989), Welsh chemist and academic * Dai Bevan, Welsh rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s * Dai Royston Bevan (1928–2008), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s * Daniel Bevan (born 1979), Advertising Executive, Inventor and Technology Entrepreneur * David Bevan (disambiguation) *

Donald Bevan Donald Joseph Bevan (January 16, 1920 – May 29, 2013) was an American playwright whose works include the Broadway play ''Stalag 17'', co-written with Edmund Trzcinski, and adapted as a movie in 1953. He was also the caricaturist for the celebrit ...

(1920–2013), American playwright and caricaturist * Edward Bevan (disambiguation) *

Edwyn Bevan Edwyn Robert Bevan OBE, FBA (15 February 1870 in London – 18 October 1943 in London) was a versatile British philosopher and historian of the Hellenistic world. Life Edwyn Robert Bevan was the fourteenth of sixteen children of Robert Cooper L ...

(1870–1943), English philosopher and historian *

Ellis Bevan Ellis Bevan (born 10 March 2000) is a Welsh rugby union player, currently playing for United Rugby Championship side Cardiff Rugby. His preferred position is Scrum-half (rugby union), scrum-half. Cardiff Rugby Bevan signed for Cardiff during th ...

(born 2000), Welsh rugby union player *

Emily Bevan Emily Grace Bevan (born 11 August 1982) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in '' The Casual Vacancy'' and '' In the Flesh''. Early life and education Bevan was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Her father was headmaster of a ...

(born 1982), English actress *

Fiona Bevan Fiona Mackay Barclay Bevan is an English singer-songwriter from Suffolk, England, who currently resides in London. She co-wrote the song " Little Things" for One Direction along with Ed Sheeran, which became a number-one single in 13 countries a ...

, English singer-songwriter * Frederick Bevan (1856–1939), singer and songwriter in UK and teacher in South Australia * G. Phillips Bevan (1829–1889), English statistician *

Gloria Bevan Gloria Isabel Bevan (20 July 1911 - 1998.) was an Australian-born New Zealand writer of romantic fiction. Early life Bevan was born on 20 July 1911 in Kalgoorlie, Australia, where her father was a mining engineer. When she was three years old, ...

, New Zealand writer *

Hal Bevan Harold Joseph Bevan Jr. (November 15, 1930 – October 5, 1968) was an American professional baseball player. A longtime minor league first baseman, catcher and third baseman, he was a pinch hitter and backup third baseman in Major League Baseba ...

(1930–1968), American baseballer *

Hilary Bevan Jones Hilary Bevan Jones is a British television producer. In 1994 she started Endor Productions, choosing the name from that of the novel ''The Road to Endor'' by E. H. Jones, her grandfather.James Bevan James Alfred Bevan (15 April 1858 – 3 February 1938) was a Wales international rugby union three-quarter who played club rugby for Clifton RFC and Newport. He is best known for being the first Welsh international captain, whilst at Cambridg ...

(1856–1938), Wales rugby union captain * James David Bevan (born 1959), British High Commissioner to India * Joe Bevan (born 2004), Scottish footballer * John Bevan (disambiguation) * Keira Bevan (born 1997), Welsh rugby union player * Latalia Bevan (born 2001), Welsh gymnast * Llewellyn David Bevan (1842–1918), Welsh Congregationalist minister in the US and Australia *

Mary Ann Bevan Mary Ann Bevan ( Webster; 20 December 187426 December 1933) was an English nurse, who, after developing acromegaly, toured the circus sideshow circuit as "the ugliest woman in the world". Early years Mary Ann Webster was one of 8 children born ...

(1874–1933), English sideshow attraction *

Matthew Bevan Mathew Bevan (born 10 June 1974) is a British hacker from Cardiff, Wales. In 1996 he was arrested for hacking into secure U.S. Government networks under the handle Kuji. At the age of 21, he hacked into the files of the Griffiss Air Force Base R ...

(born 1973), British hacker * Maurice Bevan (1921–2006), British baritone and composer *

Michael Bevan Michael Gwyl Bevan (born 8 May 1970) is an Australian former international cricketer. He played as a left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm wrist spin bowler. For several years, he was considered the world's finest One Day International (ODI) ...

(born 1970), Australian cricketer * Michael W. Bevan (born 1952), New Zealand biologist and professor *

Myer Bevan Myer Stefan Major Bevan (born 23 April 1997) is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a forward for Northern League club Auckland City and the New Zealand national team. Club career Early career Bevan played in his native New ...

(born 1997), New Zealand footballer * Natalie Bevan (1909–2007), British artist * Nick Bevan (1942–2014), British rowing coach and school headmaster *

Paul Bevan Paul Bevan (born 27 September 1984) is an Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League (AFL). Having grown up in Central Coast and later Sydney, playing for Western Suburbs Magpies AFC in the Sydney ...

(born 1984), Australian footballer *

R. A. Bevan Robert Alexander Polhill Bevan CBE (15 March 1901 – 20 December 1974) was a significant figure in British communications and advertising during the mid-20th century. He was the second child of the artists Robert Polhill Bevan and Stanisława ...

(1901–1974), advertising pioneer * Robert Bevan (artist) (1865–1925), British painter, draughtsman and lithographer, father of R. A. Bevan *

Robert Cooper Lee Bevan Robert Cooper Lee Bevan (8 February 180922 July 1890) was a British banker. He served as a senior partner of Barclays Bank. Early life Robert Cooper Lee Bevan was born on 8 February 1809 at Hale End, Walthamstow. He was the eldest son of fellow ...

(1809–1890), British banker * Scott Bevan (born 1979), English footballer *

Scott Bevan (journalist) Scott Bevan (born 1964 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is an Australian TV and radio presenter, journalist and biographer. Biography Scott Bevan grew up near Merewether in Newcastle. In 1984 he joined the ''Newcastle Herald'' as a cadet journali ...

(born 1964), Australian journalist *

Sid Bevan Thomas Sidney "Sid" Bevan (2 May 1877 – 17 October 1933)
Scrum.com was a Silvanus Bevan (1691–1765), Welsh apothecary *

Sophie Bevan Sophie Anna Magdalena Bevan (born 1983) is a British lyric soprano appearing in concerts, recitals, and opera. Early life Bevan was born in Somerset in 1983, the first-born of eight siblings. Her father was a singer and all of her siblings are m ...

(born 1983), British lyric soprano *

Stewart Bevan Stewart John Llewellyn Bevan (10 March 1948 – 20 February 2022) was a British actor with performances in both film and television. His career includes the films '' Brannigan'' (1975), '' The Ghoul'' (1975), '' House of Mortal Sin'' (1976), ' ...

(1948–2022), British actor * Stuart Bevan (1872–1935), British politician and barrister * Taylor Bevan (born 2001), Welsh boxer * Thomas Bevan (disambiguation) *

Tim Bevan Timothy John Bevan, (born 20 December 1957) is a New Zealand-British film producer, the co-chairman (with Eric Fellner) of the production company Working Title Films. Bevan and Fellner are the most successful British producers of their era. Thr ...

(born 1958), New Zealand film producer *

Tony Bevan Tony Bevan (born 1951) is a British painter, known for his psychologically charged images of people at the edge of respectable society. Biography Bevan was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He studied at Bradford School of Art from 1968 to 1971, fol ...

(born 1951), British painter * Vince Bevan, Canadian policeman * William Bevan (disambiguation)

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