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Beth Govrin/Eleutheropolis
Beth Govrin (Bet Guvrin, Beit Jibrin), ancient town in the Judean Shephelah; refounded by Septimius Severus in 200 CE as Eleutheropolis, "City of the Free," a main administrative center of Palestina Prima with amphitheater, baths, and vast burial caves.
Beth Grant
Beth Grant (born 1949, Gadsden, Alabama) is an American character actress known for Donnie Darko, Speed, Little Miss Sunshine, No Country for Old Men, The Mindy Project, and three Best Picture winners.
Beth Greene
Beth Greene is a fictional character on AMC's The Walking Dead, portrayed by Emily Kinney, the youngest daughter of Hershel Greene who dies in the fifth season.
Beth Haim Cemetery, Curaçao
Beth Haim Bleinheim is a Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of Willemstad, Curaçao, founded by Sephardic Jews by 1659 and the oldest continually used Jewish cemetery in the Americas.
Beth Harmon
Beth Harmon is the fictional chess prodigy created by Walter Tevis for the 1983 novel The Queen's Gambit, played by Anya Taylor-Joy in the 2020 Netflix series; an orphaned Kentucky girl who conquers competitive chess while battling tranquilizer and alcohol addiction.
Beth Hart
Beth Hart (born 1972, Los Angeles) is an American blues-rock singer, songwriter, and keyboardist with six Billboard Blues chart toppers, three Joe Bonamassa albums, a 2014 Grammy nomination for Seesaw, and the 2024 album You Still Got Me.
Beth Holloway
Beth Holloway, also Beth Holloway Twitty, is the American teacher and advocate, mother of Natalee Holloway, who vanished in Aruba in 2005; she founded the Natalee Holloway Resource Center and International Safe Travels Foundation and faced Joran van der Sloot's 2023 confession.
Beth Howland
Beth Howland (1941-2015), American actress born in Boston, played waitress Vera Louise Gorman on CBS's Alice (1976-1985) and originated Amy in Broadway's Company, singing Sondheim's "Getting Married Today."
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Boston teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, formed by 1996 merger of Beth Israel and New England Deaconess hospitals; 766 beds, Beth Israel Lahey Health founding hospital, Dana-Farber partner from 2028.
Beth Israel Lahey Health
Beth Israel Lahey Health is a nonprofit health care system headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, formed in 2019 by the merger of Lahey Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Beth Israel Medical Center
Beth Israel Medical Center, later Mount Sinai Beth Israel, was a New York City hospital founded in 1889 for Lower East Side Jewish immigrants, renamed in 1965, merged into Mount Sinai Health System in 2013, and closed April 9, 2025.
Beth L. Freeman
Beth Labson Freeman, born 1953, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge in San Jose since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Beth Lear
Beth Lear is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 61st district in eastern Delaware and western Knox counties.
Beth Levine (physician-scientist)
Beth Levine (1960–2020) was an American physician-scientist who established the genetic study of autophagy in mammals; her lab identified beclin 1 as the first mammalian autophagy gene.
Beth Liebling
Beth Liebling (born 1967, Chicago) is an American bassist and co-founder of the Seattle experimental instrumental band Hovercraft, performing as Sadie 7 on Akathisia (1997) and Experiment Below (1998), and the ex-wife of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder (1994-2000).
Beth Liston
Beth Liston is an American Democratic politician and physician representing Ohio's 16th Senate district, previously a State Representative and professor of clinical medicine at Ohio State.
Beth Louise Parker
Beth Louise Parker is a Canadian hydrogeologist and professor at the University of Guelph who studies how groundwater contaminants move through fractured rock aquifers, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Beth M. Hammack
Beth M. Hammack is an American central banker and former Goldman Sachs executive who became the twelfth president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in August 2024.
Beth May
Beth May: American poet, writer, actor, and performer from Phoenix, Arizona; author of Apocalips and The Immortal Soul Salvage Yard, known for Dungeons and Daddies and spoken-word albums; not the composer S. Beth May.
Beth Mead
Beth Mead (born 1995, Whitby) is an English forward; Sunderland 77 goals in 78 games, Arsenal 2017-2026, EURO 2022 Golden Boot and Player of the Tournament, BBC Sports Personality 2022, now Manchester City.
Beth Mizell
Beth Mizell is an American politician, a Republican member of the Louisiana Senate from the 12th district who was President Pro Tempore from 2020 to 2024.
Beth Moore
Beth Moore is an American evangelical Bible teacher and author who founded Living Proof Ministries in Houston in 1994 and left the Southern Baptist Convention in 2021.
Beth Mowins
Beth Mowins, ESPN play-by-play broadcaster since 1994; first woman to call a nationally televised NFL game (Chargers-Broncos, Monday Night Football, September 11, 2017) and voice of the Women's College World Series for 30 years.
Beth Nimrah
Beth Nimrah was a fortified Gadite town in the Jordan Valley east of the Jordan River, named in Numbers 32:36 and Joshua 13:27 and identified with Tell Nimrin or nearby mounds.
Beth Orton
Beth Orton (born 1970, Norfolk) is an English singer-songwriter of folktronica, known for Trailer Park (1996), Central Reservation (1999, 2000 Brit Award), and nine albums through The Ground Above (2026).
Beth Ostrosky Stern
Beth Ostrosky Stern (born Elizabeth Anne Ostrosky, 1972, Pittsburgh) is an American model, actress, and author, wife of Howard Stern since 2008, and national spokesperson and foster parent for North Shore Animal League America.
Beth P. Bell
Beth P. Bell is a CDC physician-scientist known for viral hepatitis research, who led the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases from 2010 and is now a University of Washington professor.
Beth Phoenix
Beth Phoenix (Elizabeth Copeland, née Kociański), American retired WWE wrestler nicknamed The Glamazon; three-time Women's Champion, Divas Champion, 2017 WWE Hall of Fame inductee, second woman in the Royal Rumble, wife of Edge.
Beth Rigby
Beth Rigby (Elizabeth Rigby) is a British journalist, Sky News political editor since April 2019 and the first woman in the role; former FT and Times journalist, host of Beth Rigby Interviews and the Electoral Dysfunction podcast.
Beth Robinson
Beth Robinson (born 1965) is a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit judge, former Vermont Supreme Court justice, and co-counsel in Baker v. State, the first openly lesbian federal appeals judge.