Robert Bennett Bean

Robert Bennett Bean (1874–1944) was a professor of anatomy and ethnologist.

Bean, through his mother, was a descendant of colonist and land owner William Randolph. He studied medicine and anatomy and obtained a B.S. in medicine, followed by an M.D. in anatomy in 1904. He served as a professor of anatomy at numerous universities, including the University of Michigan (1905–1907), the Philippine Medical School of Manila (1908), the Tulane University of Louisiana (1910–1916) and until his retirement as an associate professor at the University of Virginia. He became the councilor of the American Anthropological Association in 1919 and was also a regional chairman for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1926).

He is best remembered for his ethnological work The Races of Man (1932).

• Racial Anatomy of the Philippine Islanders (1910)
• The Races of Man. Differentiation and Dispersal of Man (1932, 2nd Ed. 1935)
• The Peopling of Virginia (1938)