| Birth Name: | Alan John Beale |
| Known For: | Virologist Pioneering vaccine development |
| Spouse: | Rosemary |
| Children: | Nick, Liz |
| Birth Date: | 23 July 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Sussex |
| Death Place: | Sissinghurst, Kent, England |
Alan John Beale (23 July 1923 - 9 December 2005) was a leading expert on vaccines and viruses. While working for Glaxo, he was responsible for starting the industrial scale production of Jonas Salk's vaccine against polio.[1]
In 1958, Beale headed a team that isolated some of the viruses that cause croup while working in The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.[2]