Beam may refer to:

Streams of particles or energy

  • Light beam, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy
  • Laser beam
  • Radio beam
  • Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles
  • Charged particle beam, a spatially localized group of electrically charged particles
  • Cathode ray, or electron beam or e-beam, streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes
  • X-ray beam, a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation
  • Molecular beam, a beam of particles moving at approximately equal velocities

People

  • Beam (rapper) (born 1995), American hip hop artist
  • Alex Beam (born 1954), American writer and journalist
  • Alex Beam (baseball) (1869–1938), American baseball player
  • Alison Beam, American lawyer and lobbyist
  • Ann Beam (1944–2024), Canadian artist
  • Anong Beam, Canadian Ojibwe artist and curator
  • C. Arlen Beam (1930–2025), American judge
  • C. Richard Beam (1925–2018), American lexicographer
  • Carl Beam (1943–2005), Indigenous Canadian artist
  • Cris Beam, American writer
  • Dawn H. Beam (born 1964), American judge
  • Drew Beam (born 2003), American baseball player
  • Ernie Beam (1867–1918), American baseball player
  • Harry P. Beam (1892–1967), American politician
  • Herman Beam (1929–1980), American racecar driver
  • Jacob D. Beam (1908–1993), American diplomat
  • James Beauregard Beam (1864–1947), American bourbon distiller
  • Joe Beam, American sexologist and author
  • John Beam (1959–2025), American football coach and athletics administrator
  • Joline Beam, American politician
  • Joseph Beam (1954–1988), African-American gay rights activist and writer
  • Louis Beam (born 1946), American white supremacist
  • Lura Beam (1887–1978), American educator, writer, and researcher
  • Mike Beam, Kansas Secretary of Agriculture
  • T. J. Beam (born 1980), American baseball player

Arts, entertainment and media

  • Beam (music), a connection line in musical notation
  • Beam (single album), by Hoshi X Woozi, 2025
  • The Beam (fairy tale), the Brothers Grimm tale 149
  • BEAM.TV, an online digital delivery and content management platform
  • BEAM Channel 31, a Philippines television network
  • Beam (website), later Mixer, a former video game live streaming platform
  • BeamNG.drive, an open-world vehicle simulation video game
  • Beam, to transport matter using the Transporter in the Star Trek fictional universe

Businesses

  • Beam Software, later Krome Studios Melbourne, an Australian video game development studio
  • Broadcast Enterprises and Affiliated Media, a telecommunications company in the Philippines
  • Beam Energy, an energy provision arrangement of British company Robin Hood Energy

Science and technology

  • BEAM (Erlang virtual machine), a virtual machine at the core of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform
  • BEAM robotics (biology, electronics, aesthetics and mechanics), a style of robotics
  • Beam search, a heuristic search algorithm
  • Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, an experimental expandable space station module
  • Apache Beam, a data processing programming model
  • Beam (structure), a structural element that resists lateral loads

Other uses

  • Beam (horse), a racehorse
  • Beam (nautical), the width of a ship at its widest point
  • Beam, Great Torrington, an estate in Devon, England
  • Balance beam, or beam, a piece of gymnastics equipment
  • The Beam (geological outcrop), in South Hero, Vermont, U.S.

See also

  • Battle of the Beams, a period in World War 2 of air radio navigation countermeasures
  • Beam theory, or Euler–Bernoulli beam theory, a means of calculating load-carrying and deflection of structural beams
  • Beam antenna, or directional antenna, an antenna which radiates or receives greater power in specific directions
  • Bessel beam, a wave whose amplitude is described by a Bessel function
  • Blaster beam, a musical instrument
  • Gaussian beam, a beam of electromagnetic radiation whose amplitude is given by a Gaussian function
  • Beme (disambiguation)
  • "Light The Beam!", a rallying chant used by fans of the Sacramento Kings