title: Beat (name)
text: Beat (pronounced "Bey-ah-t") is a German male given name, derived from the Latin name Beatus, which means "blessed". The name is common in German-speaking Switzerland because of St Beatus of Lungern, considered a patron saint. The female variant is Beate. The name Beat may refer to:
  
  Beat Bosch (born 1971), Swiss athlete
  Beat Breu (born 1957), Swiss cyclist
  Beat Fehr (1943–1967), Swiss racing driver
  Beat Feuz (born 1987), Swiss alpine skier
  Beat Forster (born 1983), Swiss ice hockey player
  Beat Furrer (born 1954), Austrian composer 
  Beat Gähwiler (born 1965), Swiss athlete
  Beat Gerber (born 1982), Swiss ice hockey player
  Beat Hefti (born 1978), Swiss bobsledder
  Beat W. Hess (born 1949), Swiss businessman
  Beat Koch (born 1972), Swiss cross country skier 
  Beat Mändli (born 1969), Swiss equestrian 
  Beat Müller (born 1978), Swiss sport shooter
  Beat Raaflaub (born 1946), Swiss conductor
  Beat Richner (born 1947), Swiss doctor
  Beat Rüedi (1920–2009), Swiss ice hockey player 
  Beat Schwerzmann (born 1966), Swiss rower
  Beat Seitz (born 1973), Swiss bobsledder 
  Beat Streuli (born 1957), Swiss artist
  Beat Sutter (born 1962), Swiss football player
  Beat Wyss (born 1947), Swiss art historian
  Beat Zberg (born 1971), Swiss cyclist
  Beat/Doctor Beat, a fictional character in the Gloria Estefan song Dr. Beat
  
  See also
  Beate
  Beatus
  
  References
  
  German masculine given names
  Masculine given names