James Dean Monroe Beebe (August 1, 1827 – September 18, 1917) was a 19th-century American Sandy Hook Pilot.

Beebe left New London with his parents when he as young and came to Long Branch, New Jersey, where he lived for over thirty years.

He was a part-owner of the pilot boat David T. Leahy, that was launched on September 4, 1890, witnessed by fifteen hundred people at the shipyards of C & R Poillon.

[5] Three score of hardy, ruddy cheeked men, all with a deep sea, blue water flavor about them, gathered in the cafe of the Battery Park Building last evening to do honor to the dean of their craft, James D. M. Beebe, who throughout fifty venturesome years, has been actively engaged as a Sandy Hook pilot.

Fifty years of what Governor Roosevelt would describe as strenuous life-the boarding of any sort of vessel in any sort of weather and the piloting of craft in or out, blow high or low, whether the sea line be blotted by fog or clear as far as a sail might fare.