Beard (surname)

Beard is an English surname of Anglo-Saxon and Old French origin, first recorded in the Domesday Book.

Notable people sharing the surname "Beard"

• Adrien Beard, American voice actor
• Al Beard, American basketball player
• Alana Beard, American basketball player
• Amanda Beard, American Olympic swimmer
• Andrew Jackson Beard, American inventor
• Annette Beard, American R&B singer, of Martha and the Vandellas
• Anson M. Beard, American football player
• Arthur Beard, British footballer
• Bert Beard, Australian rules footballer
• Bertram Beard, English cricketer
• Butch Beard, American basketball player and coach
• Charles A. Beard, influential American historian
• Chris Beard (born 1957), American electric blues musician
• Clarke Beard, American athlete
• Colin Beard, Australian rules footballer
• Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone
• David Beard, Australian volleyball player
• David Breed Beard (1922–1998), American space physicist
• DeLawrence Beard, American judge
• Don Beard, New Zealand cricketer
• Dympna Beard, Australian politician
• Ed Beard, saloon keeper in the American Old West
• Ed Beard (football player), American football player
• Edward Beard, U.S. congressman from Rhode Island
• Elspeth Beard, English woman motorcyclist
• Emma Beard, British singer
• Frank Beard (golfer), American golfer
• Frank Beard (musician), drummer in the American rock band ZZ Top
• Frederic Beard, English choirmaster in Australia
• George Miller Beard, American neurologist who coined the term "neurasthenia"
• Gordon Beard, Canadian politician
• Graeme Beard, Australian cricketer
• Hazel Beard, American politician
• Henry Beard, founder of National Lampoon magazine
• James Beard, American chef and food writer
• James Henry Beard, American painter
• Jim Beard, American jazz pianist
• John Beard (disambiguation), several people

• John Beard (artist) (born 1943), Welsh artist and painter
• John Beard (colonial administrator) (died 1685), Chief Agent and Governor of Bengal
• John Beard (embryologist) (1858–1924), Scottish embryologist and anatomist
• John Beard (news anchor) (born 1945), American newscaster and Arrested Development actor
• John Beard (politician) (1797–1876), American politician
• John Beard (tenor) (c. 1716–1791), English singer of Handel oratorios
• John Beard (trade unionist) (1871–1950), British politician
• John F. Beard (1822–1891), Wisconsin legislator
• John Relly Beard (1800–1876), English Unitarian minister
• John Stanley Beard (1916–2011), British Australian ecologist
• John Stanley Coombe Beard (1890–1970), English architect
• John W. Beard (born 1951), Iowan politician
• John William Beard (1920–2006), Californian politician

• Kevin Beard, American football player
• Malcolm Beard, English footballer
• Malcolm E. Beard (1919–2019), American politician
• Mark Beard (disambiguation), several people

• Mark Beard (artist) (born 1956), American artist
• Mark Beard (footballer) (born 1974), English football defender
• Mark Beard (racing driver) (1948–2021), American driver and team owner

• Mary Beard (disambiguation), several people

• Mary Beard (classicist) (born 1955), British literary critic and journalist
• Mary Beard (nursing) (1876–1946), director of the American Red Cross Nursing Service
• Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), American historian, women's suffrage activist

• Mat Beard (disambiguation), several people (various spellings)

• Mat X. Beard, US state legislator (16th Oklahoma Legislature#House of Representatives)
• Mathew Beard (1870–1985), oldest African-American supercentenarian
• Matthew "Stymie" Beard (1925–1981), American child actor in Our Gang
• Matt Beard (born 1978), English football manager for Bristol City W.F.C.
• Matthew Beard (English actor) (born 1989)

• Nigel Beard, British politician
• Pat Beard, American politician
• Paul Beard (disambiguation), several people

• Paul Beard (spiritualist), British president of the College of Psychic Studies
• Paul Beard (violinist), leader of the London Philharmonic and BBC Symphony orchestras

• Percy Beard, American track and field athlete
• Peter Beard (1938–2020), American photographer and artist
• Peter Beard (politician) (born 1935), Australian politician
• Peter Beard, mayor of Reading, England
• Peter Hill Beard (1938–2020), American photographer
• Philip Beard, American novelist
• Ralph Beard, American basketball player
• Ralph Beard (baseball), American Major League Baseball player
• Randal Beard, American engineer
• Richard Beard (disambiguation), several people

• Richard Beard (author) (born 1967), English writer
• Richard Beard (courtier) (fl. 1540), English courtier
• Richard Beard (photographer), English photographer

• Robin Beard, US congressman from Tennessee
• Santonio Beard (1980-2022), American football player
• Sarah E. Beard (1921–2012), American medical researcher
• Stephanie Beard, Canadian actress
• Tanoka Beard, American basketball player
• Thomas Beard (theologian) (died 1632), English clergyman and theologian
• Thomas P. Beard (1837–1918), African American politician
• Trevor Beard, British-Australian medical doctor
• William Beard (disambiguation), several people

• William Beard (bone collector) (1772–1868), of Banwell, Somerset
• William Beard (cricketer), New Zealand cricketer
• William E. Beard (1873–1950), American naval historian
• William Holbrook Beard (1824–1900), American painter
• William P. "Bull Moose" Beard, publisher of Abbeville Scimitar