Beda is a given name and surname of multiple origin.
As a masculine given name, it originates as an Anglo-Saxon short name, West Saxon ''Bīeda'', Northumbrian ''Bǣda'', Anglian ''Bēda'' (the purported name of one of the Saxon founders of
Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council.
Portsmouth is the most dens ...
in AD 501 according to the ''
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the ''Chronicle'' was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alf ...
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[J. Insley, "Portesmutha" in: ''Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde'' vol. 23, Walter de Gruyter (2003), 291.] cognate with German ''
Bodo Bodo may refer to:
Ethnicity
* Boro people, an ethno-linguistic group mainly from Northwest Assam, India
* Bodo-Kachari people, an umbrella group from Nepal, India and Bangladesh that includes the Bodo people
Culture and language
* Boro cu ...
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Beda Venerabilis
Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom o ...
was a Benedictine, in whose honour the name ''Beda'' was popularly chosen as a monastic name by Benedictines, and in modern times entered wider usage as a given name among Roman Catholics in continental Europe.
'' Béda'' is an unrelated Hungarian feminine given name.
''Beda'' is also an unrelated Russian surname (from , "trouble, misery").
Given name
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Beda (Beda Venerabilis, the Venerable Bede) (672/3-735), Anglo-Saxon monk and historian
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Beda Angehrn
Beda Angehrn (born 7 December 1725 in Hagenwil, modern day Amriswil; died 19 May 1796 in St. Gallen) was prince-abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1767 until 1796.
Life
Johann Konrad Angehrn was the son of the surgeon and ''Gerichtsamm ...
(born Johann Konrad, 1725–1796), prince-abbot of Saint Gall
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Bede Clifford
Captain Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford (3 July 1890 – 6 October 1969) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator, born in New Zealand, where his parents had moved in an unsuccessful attempt at sheep-farming.
His parents were William Hug ...
(1890-1969), British colonial administrator and diplomat
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Beda Dudík (1815–1890), Benedictine Moravian historian
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Bede Durbidge (born in 1983), Australian surfer
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Bede Jarrett (1881–1934) Dominican friar, Provincial of the English Dominicans, and founder of Blackfriars Priory, Oxford University.
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Beda Stjernschantz
Beda Maria Stjernschantz (10 December 1867 — 28 May 1910) was one of the first Finnish people, Finnish Symbolism (arts), symbolist painters, whose main creative period was during the 1890s' ''fin de siècle'' epoch.
Beda Stjernschantz was bo ...
(1867–1910), Finnish symbolist painter
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Beda Weber (1798–1859), German writer
Surname
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Bartosz Beda, Polish contemporary artist
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Leonid Beda (1923–1995), Soviet Army officer
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Slavko Beda
Slavko Beda (17 October 1919 – 8 June 1975) was a Croatian footballer who played internationally for the Croatia national team. (1919–1975), Croatian footballer
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Pedro Beda (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
Pseudonym
*pen name of
Fritz Löhner-Beda
Fritz Löhner-Beda (24 June 1883 – 4 December 1942), born Bedřich Löwy, was an Austrians, Austrian Libretto, librettist, lyricist and writer. Once nearly forgotten, many of his songs and tunes remain popular today. He was murdered in Monowitz ...
(1883–1942), short form of his given name ''Bedřich''.
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