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