Fictional Characters
- Beatrice, a soul in Dante's Divine Comedy who guides Dante out of Purgatory and through Heaven (based on Beatrice Portinari)
- In plays:
- Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing
- Beatrice Carbone in A View from the Bridge
- Beatrice Baudelaire
- Beatrice in comic Gunslinger Girl
- Beatrice, witch in the doujin game Umineko no Naku Koro ni
- Beatrice Rappaccini, title character of short story "Rappaccini's Daughter"
- Beatrice (Tris) Prior, the female protagonist and narrator of the YA series Divergent written by Veronica Roth.
- Beatrice: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
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