Bede (disambiguation)

Last updated March 10, 2026

Bede may refer to

People

Bede (Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede) (672 or 673 – May 27, 735), a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth
Bede Liu, professor of electrical engineering
Alain Bédé (born 1970), Ivorian footballer
Boris Bede (born 1989), French player of gridiron football
Shelda Bede (born 1973), a beach volleyball player from Brazil who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Bede Griffiths (1906–1993), a British-born Benedictine monk and mystic who lived in ashrams in South India
Jim Bede (1933–2015), aircraft designer, often credited with the creation of the modern kitplane market
Olga Bede (1908–1985), a Romanian Magyar writer from Transylvania

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Saint Petersburg Bede, an early surviving manuscript of Bede's eighth-century history, the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People)
Tiberius Bede, the shortened name of two separate manuscripts of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Moore Bede, an early manuscript of Bede's eighth-century Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

Bede Aircraft, an aircraft corporation founded by controversial aeronautical engineer Jim Bede in 1961 to produce the BD-1 kit aircraft
- Bede BD-1, a kit-built aircraft, the first design of American aeronautical engineer Jim Bede
- Bede BD-5, a small, single-seat homebuilt kit aircraft that was introduced in the early 1970s by Bede Aircraft Corp

Adam Bede , George Eliot's first novel, published pseudonymously in 1859
Beadsman or Bedesman, a pensioner
Bede Island, an area of Leicester, England close to the city centre
Bede Metro station, a Tyne and Wear Metro station named after the Venerable Bede
Bede people, an ethnic group in Bangladesh
Bede, the Hungarian name for Bedeni village in Gălești, Mureș, Romania
Bede, a character from Pokémon Sword and Shield