Beckles is a surname of English origin, derived from the market town of
Beccles
Beccles ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . The town is shown on the milestone as from London via the A145 and A12 roads, north-east of London as the crow fli ...
in
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...
. People with the surname include:
*
Albert Beckles
Albert "Al" Beckles (born July 14, 1930, as stated by Albert himself on John Hansen’s Bodybuilding Legends podcast) is a former IFBB pro bodybuilder and Mr. Universe. He is a three-time New York City ‘Night of Champions’ winner. He is ce ...
(born 1930), American bodybuilder
*
Edward Beckles Edward Hyndman Beckles (1816 – 5 December 1902) was the Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone from 1860 until 1869.
Beckles was born in Barbados in 1816, educated at Codrington College Barbados, ordained deacon in 1843 and priest in 1844. He started as ...
(1816–1902), Barbadian clergyman
* Sir
Hilary Beckles
Sir Hilary McDonald Beckles KA (born 11 August 1955) is a Barbadian historian. He is the current vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission.
Educated at the University of Hul ...
(born 1955), Barbadian academic
*
Ian Beckles
Ian Harold Beckles (born July 20, 1967) is a Canadian former American football Guard who played nine seasons in the NFL. Beckles was the co-host of the highly-rated ''Beckles and Recher Show'' on iHeartMedia, Inc.'s WDAE (620 AM and 95.3 FM) i ...
(born 1967), Canadian player of American football
*
Kanika Beckles
Kanika Alana Beckles (born 3 October 1991, in Saint Joseph) is a Trinidadian-born Grenadian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. She represented Grenada at the 2012 Summer Olympics but did not start. She reached the semifinals of the 20 ...
(born 1991), Trinidadian sprinter
*
Kierre Beckles
Kierre Kamille Beckles (born 21 May 1990) is a Barbadian athlete specializing in the 100 metres hurdles.
She competed at the 2011
File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds t ...
(born 1990), Barbadian athlete
*
Mark Beckles
The 2007 Ontario general election took place on Wednesday, October 10, 2007. The list of candidates was finalized by Elections Ontario on September 19, 2007.
Candidates by party
*Liberal Party candidates, 2007 Ontario provincial election
*Progres ...
(born 1964), Canadian insurance broker and political candidate
*
Pennelope Beckles
Pennelope Althea Beckles-Robinson (born 12 September 1961) is a Trinidad and Tobago attorney and politician. She has served as a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for Arima since the 2020 general election. She is the current M ...
(born 1961), Trinidadian politician
*
Samuel Beckles
Samuel Husbands Beckles (12 April 1814, in Barbados – 4 September 1890, in Hastings) was a Bajan/English 19th-century lawyer, turned dinosaur hunter, who collected remains in Sussex and the Isle of Wight. In 1854 he described bird-like trackw ...
(1814–1890), English dinosaur hunter
*
Yolande Beckles
Yolande Beckles is a British educationalist and businesswoman. She founded Global Graduates in 1998, a company aimed at raising the aspirations of, and teaching soft skills to mainly ethnic minority children, but not solely made up from ethnic ...
(born 1962), British educator
{{surname
English toponymic surnames