Byrd (surname)
Byrd is a surname of English and Irish origin, a variant of the surname Bird.
Notable people with the surname
- A. Dean Byrd, American psychologist
- Adam M. Byrd, American politician
- Adrianne Byrd, American romance novelist
- Albert Byrd, American cyclist
- Alma W. Byrd, American politician
- Alton Byrd, American-British basketball player, sports broadcaster and sports executive
- Andrew Byrd, American politician
- Bill Byrd, American baseball player
- Billy Byrd, American country guitarist
- Bobby Byrd, American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and musician
- Boris Byrd, American football player
- Brandon R. Byrd, American historian
- Bretton Byrd, British composer and musician
- Brigitte Byrd, French-American poet
- Butch Byrd, AFL Hall of Fame
- Charles Byrd (fighter), American mixed martial artist
- Charles Pinckney Byrd, American publisher and printer
- Charles Willing Byrd, first sitting justice on the United States District Court of Ohio
- Charlice Byrd, American politician
- Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist
- Chris Byrd, American heavyweight boxing champion
- Conley Byrd, Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
- Cord Byrd, American attorney and politician
- Curley Byrd, American university administrator, educator, athlete, coach, and politician
- Damiere Byrd, American football player
- Dan Byrd, American actor
- Danny Byrd, English DJ, record producer and musician
- Darryl Byrd, American football player
- David Byrd (politician), American politician and retired basketball coach
- David Edward Byrd, American graphic designer and painter
- David Harold Byrd, American petroleum geologist and businessman
- Debra Byrd, American vocalist
- Deborah Byrd, American science journalist
- Dennis Byrd, American football player
- Dennis Byrd (American football, born 1946), American football player
- Demetrius Byrd, American football player
- Dominique Byrd, American football player
- Don Byrd, American poet
- Donald Byrd, American jazz trumpeter
- Donald Byrd (choreographer), American dance choreographer
- Dontez Byrd, American football player
- Elizabeth Byrd, American author
- Emanuel Byrd, American football player
- Eugene Byrd, American actor
- Flossie M. Byrd, American home economist
- Garland T. Byrd, American politician
- Geoff Byrd, American musician
- George Byrd, American conductor
- Gibson Byrd, American painter
- Gill Byrd, American football player
- Harriet Elizabeth Byrd, American politician and educator
- Harry Byrd (baseball), American baseball player
- Harry F. Byrd, U.S. senator for Virginia
- Harry F. Byrd Jr., U.S. senator for Virginia from 1965 until 1983
- Henry Roeland Byrd, American blues musician
- Imhotep Gary Byrd, American radio host and musician
- Isaac Byrd, American football player
- Israel Byrd, American college football player and coach
- Jairus Byrd, American football player
- James Byrd Jr., American murder victim
- James W. Byrd, American politician
- Jazz Byrd, American football player and coach and tax collector
- Jefferson Byrd, American politician
- Jeff Byrd, American baseball player
- Jeffrey J. Byrd, American biologist
- Jeffrey W. Byrd, American film director, producer and screenwriter
- Jerry Byrd, American lap steel guitarist
- Jessica Byrd, American feminist activist
- Jim Byrd, American baseball player
- Jodi Byrd, Chickasaw academic
- Joe Byrd (vaudeville), American vaudeville comedian
- Joe Byrd (Cherokee Nation Principal Chief)
- William Byrd Jr., American murderer
- Johnnie Byrd, American politician
- Joseph Byrd, American rock musician
- Joseph Tali Byrd, Cherokee/Quapaw Nation politician
- Josephine Byrd, American activist and former social service worker
- Jonathan Byrd (golfer), American golfer
- Jonathan Byrd (musician), American folk singer-songwriter
- Jordan Byrd, American football player
- Kahlil Byrd, American political advisor and entrepreneur
- LaRon Byrd, American football player
- Larry Byrd, American politician
- Laurie Byrd, American basketball player and coach
- Leland Byrd, American college athletic administrator, basketball player and coach
- Leo Byrd, American basketball player
- Leonard Byrd, American sprinter
- Louis Byrd, mayor of Lynwood, California
- Mabel Byrd, American civil rights activist
- Manford Byrd Jr., American educator and education administrator
- Marc Byrd, American musician, writer, and producer
- Maria Taylor Byrd, wife of William Byrd II
- Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
- Mary E. Byrd, American educator
- Mary Willing Byrd, second wife of Colonel William Byrd III
- Maurice Oscar Byrd, American convicted mass shooter
- Melvin Byrd, American football player
- Michael Byrd, American police officer
- Mitch Byrd, American comic book artist
- Ollie Byrd, American baseball player
- Paul Byrd, American baseball player
- Petri Hawkins-Byrd, bailiff "Byrd" on the Judge Judy TV series
- Ralph Byrd, American actor
- Raymond Byrd, American lynching victim
- Richard Byrd (athlete), American athlete and baseball player
- Richard Byrd (American football), American football player
- Richard C. Byrd, American politician
- Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr., Virginia lawyer, politician and newspaperman
- Richard E. Byrd, American admiral, polar explorer, aviator
- Richard Evelyn Byrd III, American naval officer and polar explorer
- Rick Byrd, American college basketball coach
- Ricky Byrd, American rock musician
- Robert Byrd, U.S. Senator, Democrat from West Virginia
- Robert Byrd (architect), American architect
- Robert Byrd (artist), American author and illustrator
- Robert K. Byrd, American soldier and politician
- Robert L. Byrd, American politician and lobbyist
- Robin Byrd, American former pornographic actress
- Russell Byrd, American baseball player
- Sammy Byrd, American baseball player and golfer
- Solomon Byrd, American football player
- Steve Byrd, English rock musician
- Sylvester Byrd, American football player
- Terrill Byrd, American football player
- Thomas Jefferson Byrd, American actor
- Tom Byrd, American actor
- Tracy Byrd (boxer), American boxer
- Tracy Byrd, American country singer
- Walt Byrd, American retired basketball player
- Warren Byrd, American jazz pianist, vocalist and composer
- Wendell Byrd, American politician and businessman
- William Byrd, English composer
- William Byrd I, member of colonial Virginia's House of Burgesses
- William Byrd II, founder of Richmond, Virginia
- William Byrd III, member of the House of Burgesses, and military officer
- William Byrd, American lynching victim
- William M. Byrd, justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama
- Willie Byrd, American football player
- Winifred Byrd, American concert pianist