Beam

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

See also: Beem

• 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