# Bard (disambiguation)

A bard is a minstrel in medieval Scottish, Irish, and Welsh societies; and later re-used by romantic writers. For its wider definition including similar roles in other societies, see List of oral repositories.
Bard, BARD, Bård or similar terms may also refer to:

## People

* Bard (surname)
* Bård, Norwegian given name and surname

### "The Bard of..." etc.

* William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the Bard of Avon or the Bard
* Robert Burns (1759–1796), the Bard of Ayrshire or the Bard
* Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), the Bard of Bengal
* John Cooper Clarke (born 1949), the Bard of Salford
* Richard Llwyd (1752–1835), the Bard of Snowdon
* Thomas Rowley (poet) (1721–1796), the Bard of the Green Mountains
* Robert W. Service (1874–1958), the Bard of the Yukon
* Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770), the Great Bard

## Fictional characters

* Bard the Bowman, a character from J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit
* Beedle the Bard, an author of fairy tales in the Harry Potter series

## Places
### In the United States

* Bard Peak (Alaska), a summit in the Kenai Mountains
* Bard, California, an unincorporated community
* Bard, Nevada, a ghost town
* Bard, New Mexico, an unincorporated community
* Bard Peak, Colorado, United States

### In Iran

* Bard, Ardabil, Ardabil Province
* Bard, Iran, Mazandaran Province, a village
* Bard Gapi, Izeh County, Khuzestan Province, a village
* Bard Kheymeh, Ramhormoz County, Khuzestan Province, a village
* Bard-e Ghamchī, Andika County, Khuzestan Province, a village

### Elsewhere

* Bard Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
* Bard, Loire, France
* Bard, Aosta Valley, Italy
** Fort Bard

## Music

* Bard (Soviet Union), genre of music in Russia consisting of singers-songwriters with guitar accompaniment
* The Bard (Sibelius), a tone poem by Jean Sibelius
* Bard (album), an album by Big Big Train
* Blind Guardian or the Bards, a power metal/speed metal band
* Bardcore, medievalised remakes of hit pop songs

## Literature

* Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish, a novel by Morgan Llywelyn
* Bard, a series of novels by Keith Taylor
* The Bard, a poem by Thomas Gray

## In role-playing and video games

* Bard (Dungeons & Dragons), a character class in Dungeons & Dragons and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
* Bard, a character class in the Final Fantasy series
* Bard, a class in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
* Bard, the Wandering Caretaker, a champion in League of Legends
* The Bard, a playable character class in Everquest

## Schools

* Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States
* Bard College at Simon's Rock, an "early college" in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States
* Bard High School Early College, an alternative public secondary school in New York City, United States
* Bard College Berlin, Germany, a private, non-profit institution of higher education

## Other uses

* Bard (chatbot), the former name for Gemini, developed by Google
* Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, Comilla, Bangladesh
* BARD Offshore 1, a wind farm by BARD Engineering Gmbh
* Barding or bard, armour for horses
* The Bard (American horse), a racehorse
* The Bard (British horse), a racehorse
* The Bard (painting), an 1817 landscape painting by John Martin
* "The Bard" (The Twilight Zone), an episode
* BARDS, Broadband Acoustic Resonance Dissolution Spectroscopy
* C. R. Bard, Inc., a manufacturer of medical equipment