Beata or Beate is a female given name or Portuguese surname that occurs in several cultures and languages, including
Italian,
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
,
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
* Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...
, and
Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
, and which is derived from the
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
''beatus'', meaning "
blessed".
[''Behind the Name'']
"Given Name Beate"
Retrieved on 22 January 2016. Variants include Bea, Beade and Beáta. The name may refer to:
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Beata Asimakopoulou
Beata Asimakopoulou (; June 28, 1932 – April 20, 2009) was a Greek actress.
Family
She was married to Greek film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the sc ...
(1932–2009), Greek actress
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Beate Bille, (born 1976), Danish actress
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Beata Brookes (1930–2015), British politician
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Beata Bublewicz (born 1975), Polish politician
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Beate Bühler
Beate Bühler (born 8 April 1964 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg) is a retired female volleyball player from Germany, who competed for West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. There she ended up in sixth place wit ...
(born 1964), German volleyball player
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Beata Gosiewska
Beata Barbara Gosiewska (; born 6 March 1971) is a Polish politician from Law and Justice. She was a member of the Senate of Poland from 2011 to 2014. She was elected in 2014 as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for European Conservativ ...
(born 1971), Polish politician
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Beata Harju (born 1990), Finnish actress and filmmaker
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Beate Heister
Beate Heister (née Albrecht; born 5 October 1951) is a German billionaire heiress. She is one of the two children of Karl Albrecht, who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo. As of 2022, she was one of the five riche ...
(born 1951), German billionaire
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Beata Kaczmarska
Beata Kaczmarska (born 5 July 1970 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie) is a former female racewalker from Poland, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of ...
(born 1970), Polish race walker
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Beata Kitsikis
Beata Kitsikis (; July 14, 1907, Heraklion, Cretan State – February 7, 1986, Athens), was a Greek feminist and a Communist fighter in the Greek Civil War at the end of the Second World War. She was born Merope Petychakis (). Her husband was Nico ...
(1907–1986), Greek politician
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Beate Klarsfeld
Beate Auguste Klarsfeld (née Künzel; born 13 February 1939) is a Franco-German journalist and Nazi hunter who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, inc ...
(born 1939), German Nazi hunter
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Beata Kozidrak
Beata Elżbieta Kozidrak (born 4 May 1960) is a Polish singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer and lyricist for the Polish iconic pop-rock band – BAJM. She is one of the most popular singers in Poland. She has a four-octave vocal range and ...
(born 1960), Polish singer
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Beata Losman
Wendela Beata Losman (née Hammarskjöld, born 27 November 1938, Malmö, Sweden) is a Swedish historian and archivist.
Biography
Beata Hammarskjöld, later Losman through marriage, was born 27 November 1938 in Malmö. She is the daughter of the ...
(born 1938), Swedish archivist
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Beate Meißner
Beate Meißner (born 2 April 1982) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. She has been a member of the Landtag of Thuringia since 2006. She has been since 2024.
Educational and professional career
Meißner att ...
(born 1982), German politician
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Beata Mikołajczyk
Beata Mikołajczyk (Polish pronunciation: ; born 15 October 1985) is a Polish canoe sprinter. She competed at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics, in two events for each games; she won one silver and two bronze medals and placed fourth two times.
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(born 1985), Polish sprint canoer
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Beate von Miquel
Beate von Miquel (born 1968) is a German women's rights advocate and gender studies scholar. She is President of the National Council of German Women's Organizations – German Women's Lobby, Germany's largest organization that campaigns for gen ...
(born 1968), German academic
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Beata Obertyńska
Beata Obertyńska, (pen name "Marta Rudzka"), born July 18, 1898, near Skole (in present-day Western Ukraine), died May 21, 1980, in London was a Polish writer and poet.
Life
Beata was one of the daughters of the ' Young Poland' poet Maryla Wol ...
(1898–1980), Polish writer
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Beata Papp
Beata Leppilampi (née Papp (born 22 April 1995) is a Finnish former competitive figure skater. She placed 15th at the 2010 World Junior Championships and won two medals at the Finnish Championships.
Personal life
Beata Papp was born on 22 A ...
(born 1985), Finnish figure skater
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Beata Pozniak
Beata or Beate is a female given name or Portuguese surname that occurs in several cultures and languages, including Italian, German, Polish, and Swedish, and which is derived from the Latin ''beatus'', meaning " blessed".''Behind the Name'' ...
(born 1960), Polish actress
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Beata Rosenhane
Beata Rosenhane (21 January 1638 in Norrköping – 1 June 1674) was a Swedish Baroness and writer. She was known for her learning and received an education unusual for a female of her epoch, and has as such been the subject of research.
Biogr ...
(1638–1674), Swedish writer
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Beate Sirota (1923–2012), American performing arts presenter
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Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza (born 1974), Polish sprint canoer
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Beata Sabina Straas (died 1773), Swedish actress
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Beata Szydło
Beata Maria Szydło (, née Kusińska ; born 15 April 1963) is a Polish politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of Law and Justice (PiS), she previously served as the prime minister of Poland f ...
(born 1963), Polish politician and prime minister
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Beata Tyszkiewicz
Beata Maria Helena Tyszkiewicz (born 14 August 1938) is a retired Polish people, Polish actress and TV personality.
Career
Beata Tyszkiewicz has worked mostly on the big screen but acted in several French TV movies, becoming famous through her ...
(born 1938), Polish actress
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Beate Uhse-Rotermund
Beate Uhse-Rotermund (; born Beate Köstlin , 25 October 1919 – 16 July 2001) was a German pilot, entrepreneur and sex shop pioneer. She was one of the very few female stunt pilots in Germany in the 1930s. During World War II she ferried plane ...
(1919–2001), German pilot and entrepreneur
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Beate Zschäpe
Beate Zschäpe (; ; born 2 January 1975) is a German far-right extremist and a member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), a neo-Nazi terrorist organization. In July 2018, she was sentenced to life imprisonment for numerous crimes com ...
(born 1975), German convicted neo-Nazi terrorist
See also
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Beat
Beat, beats, or beating may refer to:
Common uses
* Assault, inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact
* Battery (crime), a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact
* Battery (tort), a civil wrong in common law of inte ...
(male given name)
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Beatus (male given name)
References
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Polish feminine given names
Feminine given names
German feminine given names
Swedish feminine given names