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)
 * 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) ( 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