People
- Abijah Beckwith (1785–1874), New York politician
- Alan Beckwith, American actor
- Byron De La Beckwith, murderer of Medgar Evers
- Charles Alvin Beckwith (1929–1994), U.S. soldier
- Christopher Beckwith, American linguist and historian
- Francis J. Beckwith, legal scholar
- Holmes Beckwith, American political scientist
- James Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), American portrait painter.
- James Roswell Beckwith, US Attorney in New Orleans, prosecuted perpetrators of the Colfax Massacre (1873)
- James P. Beckwith, better known as James Beckwourth (1800−1866), trapper, Indian chief, fur trader, scout
- Lillian Beckwith, English author
- Michael Beckwith, New Thought minister
- Reginald Beckwith, English actor
- Tamara Beckwith, English socialite
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