People
- A. L. Beattie, pioneering Chief Mechanical Engineer of the New Zealand Railways Department.
- Sir Andrew Beattie, Irish politician.
- Ann Beattie (1947-), American writer
- Bob Beattie, American football player
- Bobby Beattie, Scottish footballer
- Charles Beattie, a Northern Irish farmer and briefly Member of Parliament
- Chris Beattie, Australian rugby league footballer
- Chris Beattie, Member of Metal Band Hatebreed
- Craig Beattie, Scottish footballer
- David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty Admiral of the Fleet Royal Navy (17 January 1871 – 11 March 1936)
- Dud Beattie, Australian rugby league footballer
- James Beattie (writer) (1735–1803), a Scottish academic and writer
- James Beattie (rower), an New Zealand Olympian (gold)
- James J. Beattie, (1942-) American Heavyweight Boxer
- Joseph Hamilton Beattie (1808–1871), locomotive engineer, London and South Western Railway
- Kevin Beattie, association (soccer) footballer of the 1970s and '80s for England, and Ipswich Town
- Nicole Beattie (1989-), American freelance model
- Melody Beattie, (1948-) American author
- Peter Beattie (b. 1952), Premier of Queensland (1998–2007)
- Stephen Halden Beattie, Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, winner of the Victoria Cross
- William George Beattie, son of Joseph Hamilton Beattie, also locomotive engineer for the London and South Western Railway
- Thompson Beattie, Perished in the Titanic disaster of 1912
- Robert Beattie, Responsible for the architecture of the Hilton Hotel, Cinnamon Building, Met Quarter and Dubai Snow Dome project
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