# 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
* Donald Beard, British military aviator
* Dylan Beard (born 1998), American hurdler
* 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